The Weirdest Light Tank
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The Swedish Strv 74 is a very strange looking light tank. It is hilariously skinny and tall, looking like an M47 Patton that was stuffed into a trash compactor. It is very slow but has a nice cannon that can fire potent APHE shells or APDS. I do wish Gaijin would fix APDS so that it can return to being useful.
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The Weirdest Light Tank
I know something way uglier and way weirder. It’s name literally translates to Thing or Creature. You know him well, we all love him. Here we go. That’s right it’s the M50 Ontos. 6 105mm Recoilless guns on a cheese wedge chassis being manned by two of uncle Sams most courageous marines.
Don't diss my boy ontos the hideous like that 😢
The pyramids if the US made them…
M50 is so cute 🥰
Spookston: “Why do I make such poor decisions?” - Gets 8 kills in a game
Me: Flanks the enemy and only gets 3 kills
Me: you get kills?
Me: They allowed you to Flank?
Me: you got to play the game?
It is because he asks that question that he gets this many. Perhaps you too should ask that from yourself.
Me flanks enemy: Gets 1 kill 8 assists 3 deaths
Something a bit more weird is the swing fire and you had so much fun with the last one I said you should play
I'd say use the striker! (the ATGM one anyway) :)
My and my friend played with the swing fire and it was fun
How tf a atgm launcher is stranger than it
don't ask but they're spoopy bois
I fucking despise it , takes no skill
Here's a fun fact, the Stridsvagn 74 was nicked named "Sanslös" or senseless by her crews, due to the fact of how violently it would rock while firing at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions.
I wonder why it did that
> shoots 380mm rocket
> misses
> doesnt elaborate further
> leaves
the STRV-74 is such a strange looking tank. I cant tell if its a stretched M-41 or a Squished M-47.
Simple! Enlarged Toldi!
Its a strv m/42 with a bigger turret
@@snekiege9796 twas a joke, comparing it to somewhat similar looking American designs like the M41 and M47 (which should not have dashes in their name)
@@r.ndomperson indeed dashes are the difference between a cold war american heavy tank and an early war soviet medium tank that was in service for more than 60 years
@@snekiege9796 its a Lago with a bigger turret
As wierd as the Strv 74 is, it is suprisingly effective in game. If you can take advantage of the gun depression it doesn't show much of its grotesque turret.
Something I'm curious about is if they can model the backup generator that it has in the turret bustle. It had an aux generator in back to allow for power to the turret w/o having the main engine running.
I'm just a fan of odd and unusual tank designs, which is why I also love tanks like the Strv 103 and Object 416. (Gaijin please don't add Obj 416... it's not good...)
That grotesque turret is also surprisingly sturdy. The mantel, despite it's thin armor, is more effective than you'd think thanks to it's shape.
This tank is quite fun in world of Tanks for the reasons this tank is unique in WT.
Is the 416 the pancake tank with the rear mounted turret ?
@@ChaosPootato Yes it is. All 4 crew members are in that turret, including the driver. It's why its depicted as having limited turret traverse cause if you turn more than about 70° either way the driver can't see front anymore. The turret is fully capable of turning 360°
@@MisterMainiac What a silly design :D
The strv 74 is an amazing turreted tank destroyer. It amazing firepower for a medium tank. It also gets scouting like other light tanks, but that also means it shares it's weak armor with them. Sadly like most heavy tanks in its class, it's very slow.
I think it classed light tank because they changed the measuring. M26 Pershing was a heavy tank too, before they change to medium tank.
Strv 74 shares hull with old medium tanks. It was medium tank, but in it's small in its era
The FV4202 is super underrated. It’s hull down is pretty insane or at least it used to be at 6.7. No clue how high it is now…
@@robertharris6092 idk it was diff for me, loved grinding the cents, but they were still 7.0 when I did
@@alexhohl8530 i remember when centurions were 6.7 and britain had an insane lineup at that tier, then they bumped most of them up to 7.0 and then 7.3 :(
@@bilge677 Yeah, when British Apds could ammo rack your poor King Tiger from across the map😂
I'd say the Caernarvon tank is more underrated with its conqueror hull
@@Pribumi1
Meh. The Caer is just a slightly more beefy Centurion. The Conqueror is great, but the the Caer is just mid.
The reason you saw the airplane under the map at 2:30 was because the Tiger player respawned in one. The game always spawns the new vehicle at the players last instance point, then teleports them to the correct spawn.
does that mean that theoretically you can blow them up if you shoot fast enough?
@@Diablo-bb1njprobably not as if that was the case, they’d likely just explode the second they spawned underground
I love how unique the Swedish tanks are, both in how they look and how they play which makes them really fun, you should play the Strv-103C next!
There beauty in ugliness
I like to think of this like a bulldog. Tall, has four crew, post-war design, and fires APDS that plays like a mixed bag
To me it looks like a crushed bulldog
its only like 35% postwar, the hull and gun are both from ww2
3:40 is it just me or does it really look better when the turret is turned 180 degrees
the Strv 74 is one of the greatest gems of the swedish TT. Swedish light tanks overall are one of the most fun of the game, especially the stuff you get after the Ikv-91
no way :O
I've been having fun playing the Char 25t, it's really low to the ground and is hard for people to notice. Plus its gun is pretty good and fast, so I recommend it!
Re-watching this video because it came up, after getting to 9.3 Sweden I can say this tank was one of my favorites during the grind.
One thing I love about the Strv 74 is the geometry of its armor. With that insane slope on the turret, and great gun depression, you will bounce a surprising number of shots off your turret when you're hill sniping.
They tried adding rockets to the strv 74. In order to increase the ability to combat armor at long range, an assembly with 3 pcs Rb 52 was tried.Further changes were introduced, as the weight increased by approx. 4 tons, among other things the engine power was increased by introducing an injection system instead of a carburettor, there would also be better fuel economy with injection. Other changes included wider bands, double periscopes in the driver's hatch and lots of detail changes for eg ammunition storage, other radio stations etc.
I hate fighting that tank in my KV-220. They’re always super annoying. You should see if you have the same experience by playing the KV-220 as well!
Not being able to decimate anything on your br bracket with a kv-220 is a severe skill issue
@@ДАНЯ_МГЕbro you burned him on a spit lmao
KV-220 players deserve the heatfs treatment
@@AlreadyTakenTag Okay I actually dislike HEAT-FS when I play the 220. That’s not a meme.
@@AlreadyTakenTag I love playing the IKV 103 and just obliterating literally any heavy tank I'm able to face
Gaijins shell deformation physics are both a beauty and a curse in both war thunder and enlisted, that tiger pen at 1:31 is similar to me trying to kill a puma with an m5a1 in enlisted where if you fire through the upper front into the driver the solid shot deform into a curl and while still pens the armor, the driver absorbs the entire shell lol
The strv 74 is also apart of an amazing lineup for Sweden. That 5.7 BR is nice, just hope they get some 5.7 CAS, cause while the j21a3 is rad, the bf109s they got as back up start to fall off.
Bf109 G and Pyorremyrsky both slap even at 5.7. The A21 also has a pretty great bomb load
Dont forget the T18B and T18B (57)
I personally like the Stridsvagn 74 and admire its unique appearance. It has been a tank I've been wanting to have in the game even before I started playing.
I'm well aware that not many people like the UK's tree, but I think that the Sherman Firefly or the Challenger DS would be cool to see sometime in the future :)
2:25 that visual glitch is "normal" for me, but it warns me that the guy is going to bomb me with their CAS
IIRC Swedish aphe is correctly modeled, which means it only has a cone shaped post pen instead of the spherical ones every other nation has. It's probably the reason some of those shots didn't oneshot
funny enough the museum that i work at has a strv 74 on display and its one of the funniest looking tanks in the museum
You should play the StuH42G, its got the 80mm armour plate on the front and is incredibly broken if you just make your opponent panic
Yeah specially when the german high pen guns are in your team. Getting 10 kills or more with it is pretty easy. And the gun is not bad at all, can pen pretty much anything and the damage is fine since you face a lot of small tanks
The Strv 74 was a cheap way to add a light tank beside the Centurion in the Swedish army after WW2. Basicly it's the Strv m/42 with a new turret given a Bofors 75 mm AA-gun. The gun is so big to the tiny tank, that it had to be balanced with clock type springs in the back. With the new turret the tank was 3.3 meter high, compared to 2.58 meter at the Strv m/42.
There was two versions of Strv 74; H with double hydraulic transmissions from Atlas diesel and V with a single mecanic Volvo transmission. Strv 74V served from 1957 to 1981 and Strv 74H to 1984. However, the tank was in it's original task replaced with the Strv 103 from the late 60's.
Day 4 Suggestion: try out the leopard 1, Its in a spot at 7.3 where it does very well, and in downtiers, faces WWII tanks that don't stand much of a chance, But also works decently well in upteirs against most vehicles due to the APDS or the HEATFS round it gets (I personally prefer APDS)
3:24
Spookston: I don’t think it don’t it matters, for survivable”
Me having flashbacks about how a single Strv 74 manage to eat the 120mm Obus De Rupture frontally from my AMX-50 Surbaissé
You should try the D.371, the French 20 mm biplane, I think it's fun playing with it as little ammo is given in my opinion.
"I hear something Russian but I cant hear him over this IS-2" Peak Spookston commentary
Day 11 of asking spookston to play the 2S25M sprut
i have a theory on the ammo rack kills coming up as suicides
When gaijin redid the kill feed to recognize not just ammo types, but weapon types (different icons for machine guns vs cannons, and no tank MG kills are properly recognized) it broke the game's ability to process double kills from things like an ammo rack, which doesnt have its own kill label, and the game doesnt know what to attribute the death to ammo-wise
gaijin probably didnt even think double kills were still possible because of volumetric and HE nerfs.
Day 13 of asking you to play low tier france
I remember a while ago all the tank corpses would turn into helicopters for a split second very curious glitch
Day 51 of asking for the M41 90/53
dawg I've been asking for the XM-803 or MBT-70 for the last 3 months on every single video
@@quizels0695 keep going bro 💪
@@deanwood1338 I will never give up
@@quizels0695 same, but u know, never give up
This was a WWII Swedish tank that had a much smaller turret with a short 75 on it. After the war, the Swedes looked around and realized their tank was outclassed, so they designed a larger upgunned turret for it. Lo and behold you have the STRV 74. The turret's too big for the tank and it's clumsy as hell, but the Swedes figured they'd be fighting defense, and the thing didn't need to be a world beater. That accounts for the slow speed, bad mobility, and the incredible depression.
I'm not that deep into the Swedish ground tree (Working on getting the Rank III vehicles rn)
I love the gun depression on them. Gives you so much more flexibility on the field compared to other vehicles, especially the Ikv 103 with it's 400 pen HEATFS rounds kekw
Spookston please have a sound mod commissioned that plays fart with extra reverb whenever a turret flies out on an ammo kill, it’s gotta be programmable
I actually think a great video would be the 'sunshine and rainbows' you mentioned. Just a bunch of hysterical clips.
The fact that this tank remained in service well into the 1980s is just shocking.
This Tank Probably Has The Most Beautiful Turret Designs.
Not many people realize this, but the Strv 74, in additional to it's two truck engines, has a backup power supply of four bicycle engines.
Gotta love shooting anything with APDS and it only turns the crew into gummy bears
This vehicle has the added affect of dealing psychic damage to anyone who sees it, first time am saw one my brain shut down amd am jus mindlessly stopped in front of it amd fired shells until it died
I had fun with this tank in WoT
But seeing you have fun with it in WT brings me joy.
It’s like someone pushed a M41 bulldog into trash compactor and the front and back were squeezed forward due to pressure
1:41 RIP PFC. Paul M. Tree
I have been asking for this for over a month. Thank you.
The sturmtiger j'd out when he missed. Actually 100% realistic, they often times just abandoned them when they ran out of ammo.
8:36 ¨I like that little curvy area... on the cast hull Shermans¨
That "RIP Paul M. Tree" joke made me laugh way too hard lmfao
First Sherman was one of the most intelligent ones so far
Another beautiful day of Spookston getting spooked a ton
One thing i noticed about the swedes in War Thunder is that, while their mobility often leaves much to be desired, their cannons tend to be pretty ridiculous.
I like that all Swedish tanks have good depression since they were made for mountains terrain
So you may know this but the Swedish medium tank Strv M/42 is what the Strv 74 is based off of. Which in turn is based off the Strv M/38 (variant of the light tank L-60).
They share the same base chassis for the most part so how in the world the m/38 and m/42 are mediums but the 74 is a light tank is beyond me. It’s role was as a medium tank, it was still derived from a medium tank, and as it aged it got moved to be an assault gun for infantry.
Then again, it’s nickname was “Senseless” so maybe it was a thematic choice.
it's because gaijin doesnt give a shit about giving swedish vehicles the correct designation. honestly half the tech tree is probably wrong if you exclude imports
My two favourite things that were added: Sweedish crew saying "Mister Moon" and the absolute donations of the ammo rack fully cooking off and leaving a crater behind
Strv 74 had a very goofy suspension stability, since it's very narrow, shooting to the sides was able to flip the tank on another side
Had the pleasure of seeing one of these IRL. They do actually look that goofy in person
2:25 this happens when people switch to new tank/airplane, you see it for split second sometimes before they teleport to spawn
You know, sometimes it makes me cry after realization of 400 mm armor piercing heat round alongside with small br of 4.0 on ikv 103 ( Swedish tanks are something alien, hope you gonna play it someday spookich)
It's decent if you treat it like a tank destroyer and not a light tank but it still isn't very good when considering everything it's sniping at usually has way more armor than it has. Considering this swedish streak I'm really looking forward to the inevitable strv 103 video. Recently started playing that vehicle and I gotta say I love it.
@@robertharris6092 It can only pen the turrets of the advanced version with the sabots. There are tanks at 5.7 that can front pen the turret with APHE.
@@Juel92 not the turret bro, the UFP. UFP is upper front plate. i don't think there are many tanks if any at all that can do that with APHE below 8.0
@@sigstenbockgard8080 By UFP do you mean the front hull roof? Because that's only like 45 mm so almost any vehicle at that BR can pen that with the right round. You wont be able to pen the actual front plate with any of its ammo.
@@Juel92 No i do not, UFP is the upper front (glacis) plate and at close range or if firing from above the strv 74 can actually pen the tiger 2s front plate
@@Juel92 and by above i mean that like 5 degrees let's you pen the entire plate at 500m range
I just gotta say that I'm really liking the longer format videos. I know you've been doing for a while now but it's worth saying.
UDES 33? Fun Swedish tank destroyer
3:43 legit the first time I have ever heard spookston curse
About time you do the American M-26!
The sturmtiger hitting j when he missed was just amazing
Check out the IKV-103. Complete derp tank with insane depression and a 105 with heat. If you already did and I'm just a dingus, maybe try the M4A5?
Spook, you bring you joy. And that’s by you being you
this was my main for the longest time when it came out ... its just a vibe you get from the damn thing ... hell put some dopy eyes on it and a mouth ... and get ready to laugh everytime you spawn in
My brian can't comprehend the frontal profile of this tank and I swear that because of how wrong it is I fail to notice it most the time.
That fart.mp3 clip you had was perfect. Like emperors nee groove meme perfect
Spook: Weirdest Light Tank
"Laughs in Sheridan"
"it's not always sunshine and rainbows"
Proceeds to get 3 kills and 6 assists
I'll never forgive that one Strv 74 that was spawnkilling my entire team on south side of Ardennes
I recommend playing the SU-100Y it’s basically a unturreted FV4005 that. Can one it anything it encounters with its naval cannon, it’s also surprisingly fast for its size.
This light tank is surprisingly survivable rarely do i ever get frontaly one shot
I'm still waiting for the CV90-105TML video to confirm if it's op or not
Strv 74 is basically what happens when you record in 16:9 but then accidentally export to 4:3
Not gonna lie, when I first got this tank I was thinking I could bounce some shells with the extreme sloping and angle but nope 20mm on the turret and a max of like 38 affective armor
As weird as the Strv 74 looks in-game, it doesn't look as bad in person, I went to see one a year or two ago. It actually looks like a real tank in person!
5:58 me after playing tank football, multiple games in a row: "heh...not surprising"
The fact the Tiger 1 has a he filler with more inside then a is 2 round is also fun
This is probably one of my favorite Swedish tanks because of its gun and odd yet cool design, and its apds can pen the ufp of a tiger 2
because your are playing so much Swedish tanks, i think you will enjoy the Swedish light tank, ikv 91 it goes 40 mph top with lazer range finder and heatfs at 7.3. the only down side i can think of is its carboard armor I have lots of fun playing it and i think you should try it out
9:50 that's a super hero landing!
As a sturmtiger player I can confirm that if we miss in CQC J'ing out is our best course of action.
1:52 Classic German main overstocking his ammo cause he thinks he's indestructible
2:26 you have that glitch too huh
9:52, you know that mythra pyra animated flip thing, same vibe
I swear that made this so it could fit between the buildings in the cities.
Once again I return demanding EBR 1951 gameplay because I still desire to see what reasoning there could possibly be for it to sit at 5.3
Probably my fav bobble head tank beside the PVKV 2. Gun pens everything, no armour, giant turret, somehow great.
My favorite Swdeish tank
(I didn't get a vid notif despite the fact notifications are on)
One of my favorite tanks in the game, and my best Swedish vehicle so far.
You know. If you added two big ole headlights on posts at the very front. That tanks profile would match a snails.
Thank you spookston I never expected you to actually play it
You have remember that this is a really small APDS and probably Gen 1 too, so it sucks way more than later APDS
This tank just makes we wish the Swedish Centurions got APHE