A Look Inside A Heavily Damage M3 Grant
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Once one of the first M3 Grants to be shipped to Britain it underwent field trials before later being used as a range target. Saved in 2003, its owner intends to mechanically restore T-24193 but retain much of the damage to her hull to help tell her story.
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They were used very much by British Indian army in Burma theatre. Here they were extremely effective against Japanese armour and fortification. The nickname for them were Elephant. They served in post-independence Indian army too, mainly against insurgents in Northeast India.
Yes indeed, there's some great footage of them in action. Including powering up one of the very steep hills.
@@TheArmourersBench Some are in our tank museums too. I recall the one in Cavalry museum, Maharashtra.
That's good to hear. A decent infantry tank for sure. I would love to visit some of India's Army museums. I tried to contact a few when researching Indian use of the PIAT but didn't get any replies back.
@@TheArmourersBenchThat's regrettable but I ain't surprised. Indian military museums are overseen by the military, and sadly they are really stringent about people visiting them, specially foreigners. (Indian military mentality has remained like the WW2 era for most part, for better or worse)
Well I hope to make some progress eventually, it's finding the right contacts. Generally speaking It stifles the west's understanding of India's important role.
Oh i Love that they are keeping it as is rather than erasing decades of history with shiny green paint
It also gives one a good idea what the Soviets experienced with their lend-lease M3 Lee tanks on the Eastern Front.
Yes, a good point.
Nice Video. I recently understood that even these range tanks have an interesting story to tell. Because as you say they show the effects of the weapons that were encountered by them and there brothers on the battlefield. Which is especially intersting for me because I am trying to go deeper on the effects of different armour piercing rounds over history at the moment and how they work.
Fantastic video and very sobering considering the men that operated these vehicles in combat. It just chokes me up.
thanks for sharing this I remember seeing this on display at Beltring in 2010 but sadly at the time I was not really interested in this tank either the Lee or grant, but had always in my opinion been the least favourite allied tank until now! but it makes a pleasant change from the usual tiger or sherman tanks. great video. 👍😎
Thanks Paul, glad you enjoyed it, it's a cool piece of history!
People would be more interested in tanks with their stories than those pristine pieces from museum displays.
I hate seeing the torch cut in the barrel!
that was awesome relic
Amazing isn't it!
Soviet tank crews were very doubtful about the Lees (Grants) they rec'd through Lead Lease... and nick named them "Coffin for Seven Brothers" since they crewed them with 7.
It died a warriors death. Live forever in Valhalla noble beast.
First tank with AC.
I really can't imagine why they'd fire four hundred Panzerfausts at it. Surely you could learn all you needed to know with just a handful. Any theories on why they allegedly expended such a significant stockpile of a captured weapon system?
My thoughts too. I'd really like to track down the reports on it to see just why (or if) they did that.
@@TheArmourersBench Thanks for the reply. I wondered if I was going mad 😁
@@TheArmourersBench Just a speculation, but maybe to find out the spread of fragmentation inside using fake ammo and crew? How much of hits would knock how much of the tank precisely, by refilling the fakes each shot and marking the data. If I was tasked with such research I would do that. Other than that just matter of consistency of the data, since the tank was destroyed after few shots anyway.
Well you're not far off what they actually did! In Tunisia in 1943 they fired on a Panzer 4 with water cans in all the crew positions to see what internal damage was like - they found that the spalling created by a strike perforated many of the cans.
Very interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it Matt. Thanks for watching
Very meta restoration.
Was a range toy and it was saved
Indeed so
This says a lot about the chances of survival by the poor sods that the Military stuck inside these mobile coffins !
Id say the those poor sods given the chance would have choosen to be inside this mobile "coffin" every time they were given a choice between this and the infantry.
All of those popped rivets.
Yeah, it's amazing how bad US tanks were at the start of the war, but we learned fast, and like Stalin said, "quantity has a quality all its own," so at least the UK could get *something* when they desperately needed it [& even some of their tanks were pretty sh!tastic at that point in time...]
Looks rather like Swiss cheese.
Needs a bit of grease
A bucket or two.
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