8 Cursed M4 Sherman Variants
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Today we look at 8 weird and cursed M4 Sherman variants. Some you have probably seen before but I'm willing to bet at least a few are ones you haven't. Think you have what it takes to prove me wrong?
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The video was posted 10 mins ago, but this comment was made 13 hr ago, how
I think chile made it, m50/51 with the 60mm high velocity gun. They also put that gun in the m24 Chaffee.
As for the Yugoslav Sherman tank with a 122mm gun, I know 100% that there actually were two, because they were located in my military base where I served in the army. That was some 20 years ago. Since that military base does not exist, I don't know what the fate of those two Shermans was, they most likely ended up in scrap metal.
Excellent video but the Chilean 60mm gun armed Sherman is cool.
a small tip, the Roem, is pronounced as RO, and M like the letter, row-m, rO'Eam, but i guess it's kinda pointless to spell a pronunciation, sorry for wasting your time
I am neither based, nor Sherman pilled. I will henceforth hand in my tank nerd licence and start telling people that the Tiger 2 could 100% beat an M1 Abrams in RUclips comments.
Just tell people it can beat "an M1". But don't tell which M1 you mean. There's like 6 vehicles, and 20+ other pieces of equipment with that designation. (one of them is M1A1... an anti-tank mine used in WWII)
@@pirig-gal Im sure it can beat my M1 Steel Pot
In theory the 15 cm sig 33 can
Tell that to my kinetic sabot with 500mm+ of penetration
Hey a Tiger 2 could easily kill a Sherman. You know assuming the transmission isn't broken and there's only one Sherman.
There are enough Shermans in the world for it to be considered its own species
its funny how true this is
Nah, a whole ecosystem
😂 species, mor than enough maybe a Phylum.
same with t34s
Not even a species, a freaking kingdom😂
Cone casually giving Gaijin more ideas for more Sherman variants
My thoughts exactly. Every tech tree has at least one, so why not through even more in?
More Shermans for God of Shermans!!!
@@user-wn1le3cx3w exactly)
Nahhhhhh bro there is to many!!
Sherman Crabapple in there?
My nominations for more cursed variants:
- Mine Exploder T8: Fitted with an array of jackhammers to detonate mines.
- Mine Exploder T12: Covered in rockets to blast a path through minefields.
- French river monitor L 990: M4 on a boat.
if they ever add french coastal fleet to warthunder and i dont see a L 990 i will be so upset
@@Ontos_M50 they already have these soviet boats with t34 turrets, so i think they will implement that
I've never heard of the L 990 before. That is hilarious. I was not expecting it to very literally be an M4 on a boat when I looked it up. I figured it would be the turret, like the Soviet river patrols with theT-34 turrets, not the entire hull minus tracks and all the other motive parts.
BOAT SHERMAN
BOAT SHERMAN
i just see,
CRAB
CRAB -2 explosive boogaloo
and the frence being cheap-asses trying to out-smug everyone
The last one is definitely, truly, cursed af. Especially the curved shield.
*Waffenträgers your Sherman*
Oh, more Shermans?
*opens bag of popcorn*
Mmm, do tell.
The M4 Improved as it's known in WoT looks like a Schmalturm Sherman
Oh sweet, lemme put on my Clockwork Orange Head Contraption before watching.
Don't forget to put on Beethoven's 9th symphony while you're at it!
"That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!"
😳😱😭😭😭
I used to restore tanks and at one point we had a sherman and a M46 patton in the workshop. We put the pattons turret onto the shermans hull just for the cursed picture. I have proof to back it up if ur interested :)
You forgot the Sherman variant that had a piece of pipe to make it look like a 90mm and ammunition filled with paint.
Woof woof!
You forgot it had also two external speakers mounted on the turret.
Here's my other dog impression:
Bark! Bark!
@@PobortzaPlYeah the M4A4 Psyops 'Oddball' Sherman.
Have a little faith, baby!
You mean the one in Kelly's Heros
The Argentinian one looked cool and sounded reasonable since they upgraded the engine as well
The M36B Jackson had a Sherman chassis. There were more Sherman chassis available than the standard chassis they needed. The crew like the ball mounted machine gun in the radio operator position as it better gave support against enemy
Infantry than the .50 cal M2 on the turret. It was, as remembered, a 90mm gun armed vehicle.
I had a pencil sharpener that was a cursed Sherman design. An M4 Sherman with Sd.Kfz. 251 suspension
i have one of these too, but have no idea how or where i got it.
I thought I knew a lot about Shermans. I have been humbled and proven wrong. The only ones I knew about was the T10, Aberdeen proving ground M4 Improved and the Persman (M4/T26 but I like the name you came up with for it.) the latter two thanks to WoT and WT. I think I use to know about the T53 but it had faded from my memory. I had expected some of the more well known cursed variants but it was nice to see some of the lesser known oddities like from Argentina and Israel not being the M-51.
same, but i call it the shershing
@6:52 Seeing a Dual-Drive (DD) Sherman off-loading from a LST onto the beach rather than driving itself onto the beach is a definite "sorta-defeats-the-purpose, don'tcha think?" moment. 😄
I didn't get near to guessing six, because most of these were simply up-gunned; in my mind, big-gun Shermans are all in the same category.
T13 definetly should have been on the actual list.. that thing is so derpy xD
How the T31 isnt first is beyond me. Also the M4/Pershing hybrid isnt cursed at all. If it is, so is the PZ III/IV
M4/T26 is absolutely cursed and anyone who thinks otherwise is clinically insane
Wtb the panzer 4/5
“Try not to modify a well working Sherman”
Israel ground forces: “impossible”
Sherman Skink not mentioned
Sherman IC not mentioned
Huh?
To be fair they're not really that cursed compared to what's mentioned here
The skink? Not at cursed?…☠️
Firefly isn't cursed
You need to look up the T12 mine exploder and the Degem Yud
Edit: oh and the BARV sherman too
@@rexxmenin my opinion, the firefly is aesthetically pleasing
I see what you did there with your outro, when it comes to Shermans I'm always In the Mood.
I knew of all of them but the 155 artillery. That thing is truly strange.
I was hoping to to see the FL-10 and wasn't disappointed
Don't forget the Israeli Shermans with the HARM anti radiation missiles
A Bradley without its extra armour plates should be there
Also the M60 Super Sherman
With the canadian m4a5 or smth sherman
Yea my first guess for cursed Sherman variants was the ram, the Canadian Sherman that isn’t even actually based on a Sherman
That was awesome thankyou, always a treat watching your vids
Love your videos man!❤
i was already subscribed so "haha on You" :P
I recognized most of them, but the honorable mentions are the only ones I guessed
When I was a kid in the 1960s, there was a gutted Sherman hull, in the playground of a local park. It was filled with sand, and the main gun barrel was welded shut. All the small protrusions, were also removed and resulting holes welded and ground smooth. Just something for the kids to climb over. Next to it was an old firetruck, similarly modified.
Have to be honest, didn’t know about the Argentinian one as well as the Israeli-an rocket one. Would love to see more kind of videos like these ones with the T34 and panzer iv
I admit defeat. the number of variants was surprising. I was ready for the Israeli's versions, but alas, I stand corrected. Nice work.
I could see many of these added. Give that last one the option to have either gunshield or even remove it to maximize stealth over health
Ngl, before the vid I guessed the
Sherman with Pershing turret ( due to the thumbnail)
Argentinian Sherman ( LATAM shermans do be wildin )
M4 Improved ( I played wot )
The SO-122 ( why tf not, fucking Yugoslavia lolmao )
T10 Mine exploder ( World of tanks again, but actually from their paper modelling scene )
T31 ( I found this one due to Reddit and D day)
M4 FL-10 ( World of tanks, lol )
Edit: paper modelling scene not scheme oops
I knew some sherman variants but i didnt know id see some of the most cursed sherman designs ever. Great video it was very educational
I had read a book on the Sherman Tanks while stationed at Fort Knox Kentucky. The only one that I missed was the 155mm box Sherman. I also liked the book so much I bought it. There is a lot of odd Sherman Tanks that did succeed in the job but they were designed for.
One you could have noticed IMO was the ''E'' vehicle with special stowage, wich was a Sherman with a new turret housing searchlight and a75mm gun, a prototype was built on a M4A1, but production vehicles were to be built on M4A3 chassis
I'm surprised you didn't include the Sherman BARV deep wading recovery vehicle made for use after D-day clearing drowned vehicles from the beaches. Or the Post-war Vickers Shervick tractors (basically a surplus sherman chassis converted into a heavy industrial tractor.)
I don't know a whole lot about Sherman variants that's part of the reason I subscribe to this channel
Definetly wanna see some of those Shermans in War Thunder either as event tanks, or premiums or even in some cases tech tree vehicles. (And yes you showed some new variants that I wasn't aware of)
More suggestions:
1. More uncanny valley than cursed, but that (another) Israeli Sherman that had its upper part of the hull shortened. Definitely a "something's wrong with it, but can't point out what" thing
2. IDK if actually real (pics I saw online are very low quality), but apparently, the Japanese experimented with a Sherman up-engined with a turbine. Doubly-cursed because the trials supposedly resulted in a death
My favorite memory is getting to help re route fuel lines for a M4 with the R975 radial after they determined the original fuel tank was too rotted so we had a 15 gallon plastic fuel tank in the crew compartment
My Father was stationed at Aberdeen before he went to the Pacific in WW2. He had pictures of the T28 but none of these Sherman variants so most others are new to me except for the Israeli variants and the Demo Tanks. Dads been gone since 2015 so I can't even ask him which ones he saw! To me all of the Greatest Generation are National Treasures!
I was JUST wondering about a Sherman with a 90mm yesterday!
The one with the fix mount 90mm AA gun was a M3. The Army had 52 1918 90mm AA guns laying around so Ordnance looked into mounting them on the M3 hull. The first one inside the gutted superstructure was too cramped for the crew so it was set in back after the engine compartment was moved forward. That gave it room to transverse plus space for storing rounds. Ordnance cancelled further work on it once the M4-M10 was finalized. Ordnance then used that M3 hull to develop into the 155mm howitzer gun motor carriage. The M4 with the M26 turret was probably a test just in case the production of the M26 was delayed until January of '45. The M26 was ordered into production in February of '44 after the Fisher Body assembly plant became available. They were producing the M10 so were given the contract to produce the M36 using the M10 hulls. Their union workers went on strike so Ordnance collected all the M10's at the stateside training bases for refurbishing into M36's. Fisher Body reworked those with the twin Detroit Diesels then got to work designing and building the M4 Jumbos. Fisher Body was to start assembling the M26 in September but delays over machinery and obtaining strategic materials by the parts suppliers left them with nothing to assemble until mid-November. I don't know who made the M36 turret since Ordnance shipped 29 to France for use on repaired M4 hulls then had the rest sent to Ford for placement on new M4'S coming off the assembly lines. The turret swap was done outside in the storage yard where the mechanics changed out the ammo bins.
I surprisingly knew almost all of these, the only two I didn't get was the other paper prototype of the Improved Sherman and the 90MM one.
And for those who might ask, I personally play War Thunder, and like to look it it's reddit "Suggestions" tab. Some people post asking for these as event/prem/TT vehicles. It's fun as you can find some really strange vehicles in there.
I knew about all of these and I'm surprised some of the really lesser know ones didn't make the list. for instance Shermans like the Horstmann suspension made by the British in 1943 or even more fitting the Japanese Sherman with the T-53 gas turbine engine that was tested in 1969
I didnt know the SO 122 had a redesigned engine bay.
Knew all the other shermans though.
Good video 👍
Love the Vine booms when transiting between sections
You should’ve added the t11 , it’s a Sherman with several hedgehog mortar round launching tubes on the front, it’s still around and it’s at a museum called armor and cav museum down in ft Moore, great place btw
I only found out about the T 53 yesterday so we (me and my brother) barely won. I think the curved gun shield looks worst, but the rear mount also makes me think of the Panzer IV Waffentrager.
I'd really like to see some cursed field modifications on tanks and other combat vehicles.
Yugoslavia mentioned
I was hoping the SO122 would make it onto here. Hoping someday it stumbles its way into either WT or WoT
One of the tank destroyer versions at #1 bore some resemblance to the Italian Semovente da 90/53, a 90mm self-propelled gun on an M14 chassis, several of which were captured by US forces on Sicily.
Thanks for the video
coolest looking next? would love to hear your opinions on such a topic
Sad that the T33, T68, and T52 weren’t on this list, but still a good list. Hadn’t heard of the Israeli rocket Shermans before, but otherwise they are all familiar to me.
I know 3 Sherman's but 2 of them are honorable mentions. Mounting 100-120mm kanoe onto a Sherman tank looks cursed enough but that last one.... looks like an idea for WG "collectables" tanks (looks similar like PZ-4 waffle trigger)
To be fair, I couldn't guess which of the bazillion Shermans and Sherman-based vehicles you'd consider cursed so I gave up on guessing to begin with, but I knew only 4 of them before (and one of the honorable mentions), and the variants mentioned outside the list. I wasn't familiar with the Argentinian super Sherman, Israeli rocket Shermans, mine roller Sherman, demolition Sherman, and the 90mm spg Sherman, plus the second variant of the M4 Improved.
i must admit that i never heard of any of them except the one with the amx13 turret
Enjoyed the video and learn quite a bit, but was slightly disappointed that the Skink didn't even make it to the honorable mentions. Oh well, to each their own.
That giant mine roller actually looks sort of useful. Or at least something similar to it would be very useful
Haha, on a side note, the way you kept saying Cursed on some of those tanks made me think of "The Simpsons" episode where Homer tries to get a gift for Bart and the store owner has items that are "cursed", including the doll and "frogurt" 😅😂😂
Never even heard of the Rowam. Wild.
I like the look and idea of pershman
I never knew any of these baring the mine exploder. And I honestly was better off not knowing them. The last one was so cursed with that curved gun shield.
I loved the video, good job, do you think you could make a video with the t34 variants?
Well since I'm a War Thunder enjoyer myself I have encountered the odd Sherman variant myself so I'll take a guess.
- T26 turret
- Skink AA
At least two of Hobart's funnies so:
- Crab minesweeper
- Duplex Drive amphibious 'showercurtain'
- Israeli M51 Super Sherman
Jamming in a gun sideways is both genius and cursed so
- Firefly
- Calliope
- another Israeli abomination, the MAR 240 sideways rocket pod
I am both humbled and amazed at these abominable Sherman variants, most of which I'm not familiar with. More the wiser, thanks for another interesting vid
I didn't even know of several of them, and I thought I have seen quite a few Sherman videos...
Almost all were new to me. I am sort of surprised not to see the rocket version, but I guess it would have been more of a modification than a variant, as it was just bolted on.
#4 had me smiling and it absolutely needs to be added to the Israel tech tree in War Thunder.
For #1, the T53 (gunshield) is worse. I approve of the T53E1 (box) for both the better center-of-gravity location of the main gun and the better protection for the crew.
6:23 My initial reaction was : What were they smoking? 🤣🤣🤣
The Skink will forever in my heart be the #1 cursed “Sherman” even though it was based off the Grizzly, the Grizzly just looks like an off brand Sherman
Good job, I only knew of 4.
The Roam SP, R240, R290, "the improved" Sherman and the T31 is new info to me also 46 days till we get our Cone Chan plushies.
The boxy design on that last one reminds me of some of the Swedish tank destroyers that I play in warthunder.
I'd seen all of these before, but the only ones I knew for sure would be on the list were the SO-122 and the Israeli rocket Shermans. I didn't really think about the Ro'em being a cursed Sherman since it's *so* big an alteration you would hardly know from looking at it that it *was* a Sherman, but it fits.
But where's the M-50 Degem Yud, the lowrider Sherman?
Suprised to not see the T52 on here
Was silently hoping to see the Chafman here as well. Not ugly per se, but definitely so off that it just looks cursed.
I'm not surprised that I was unaware of so many versions of the Sherman but I was a little shocked that the Duplex Drive didn't show up here. For all the faults or vonrability you might normally associate with the M4 - drowning at sea wasn't normally a danger to the crew in most variants. Okm it did work well enough for small rivers and lakes, but still how many other tanks need the crew to wear life-jackets?
Were the Sherman to ever be sold to the public the T-10 is exactly what they'd look like in every hood and every small town south of the Mason Dixon line. In Los Angeles they would have also gone through a spinner phase (a trend that that thankfully died out a while back).
The Skink should be included in this list (Canadian Grizzly Sherman, with special quad 20mm turret; one vehicle saw very brief but extremely effective service, albeit in an anti-infantry & anti-materiel role).
The Sherman with the Slugger turret tho... its... weird... but I pray it plugged any tank it saw since I remember that the US were really needing more of the 90mm M3's and there were very little Pershings and Sluggers that packed it at the time
Up gunning a Sherman means you have a tank with good armor but would be hopeless with peer gunned tanks as Sherman armor would never hold up
Love the Sandcrawler Sherman
forever proud and extremely perplexed by my namesake, bless the recommended feed for leading me here.
3:00 No wonder you are so confident that we can't guess all of your picks. You included this only-on-drawing-board “variant” instead of those actually fought on battlefields and failed miserably, like the DD variant with only 2 out of almost 80 made it to the shore at Omaha Beach.
variations of churchills next?
pls
My guess would be the calliope , m51 , skink, maybe the one with the sa50 canon and then i don't know some weird forgotten sherman version
I was wondering if we could perhaps get a video about the T34 variants or the Panzer IV and why they failed or succeded
T34 or T-34
Ok, ya got me. Liked and subbed.
I love the M6A1, its so cool looking
#6 is the "T-Sherty-4" 😊
I feel like the M10 is another Sherman chassis that seems to be taking notes from the T-34, bases on the armor angles on the hull and turret. Or maybe just convergent evolution
@@j.f.fisher5318 Open top and thin armor probably made it easier to go that route. I am also struck by the convergence of the T26 and IS2.
Im surprised the M4A2E4 wasnt on this list. It's in world of tanks but most people don't care for it or really know about it because the only difference was it had Torsion bar suspension instead of VSS or HVSS.
The improved Sherman and the #1 choices were both new to me
Maybe next the most cursed t34 variants
Tanks you forgot: T52 - Sherman with ball turret / Sherman BARV / T6 / Israeli EYAL / Israeli Kilshon / ETC
Also m4 canal defense light Tank
M4 t105 also
Could you make a video on the Soviet G.K.A. 1500 amphibious tank? Despite the lack of info it would be cool, thanks!
Hard to keep count, was aware of the MLRS (why?), M26 turret, and some of the other "big noses" that never went into US production. But some the other foreign monstrosities, sheesh!