Tim Sielbeck Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Oddball would approve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogDodger Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) Somehow, I think Oddball would approve.Edit: Tim Edited July 10, 2018 by DogDodger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sielbeck Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) Edited July 10, 2018 by Tim Sielbeck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandro_ Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Japanese Type-2 tank shown in Washington, 5 October 1945. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiedzmin Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) I suppose the kid was doing what kids do; pop up at inopportune moments... Edited July 12, 2018 by shep854 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Sherman in Novi Sad, that exact tank was used as Clint Eastwood's tank in Kelly's Heroes. As for a paintjob, at least it is gonna protect it. Great pic of an infamous(?) tank! Just for fun, here's a look at maybe the best 25 seconds in the whole movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Sherman in Novi Sad, that exact tank was used as Clint Eastwood's tank in Kelly's Heroes.As for a paintjob, at least it is gonna protect it. M4A3E4 IIRC? Looks awesome, I entirely approve. A friend asked me, is this privately owned, or part of a museum or something? Edited July 12, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Sherman in Novi Sad, that exact tank was used as Clint Eastwood's tank in Kelly's Heroes.As for a paintjob, at least it is gonna protect it. M4A3E4 IIRC? Looks awesome, I entirely approve. A friend asked me, is this privately owned, or part of a museum or something? I believe that is one of yours, a Sherman I Firefly by the looks of it. Edited July 12, 2018 by DKTanker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Sherman in Novi Sad, that exact tank was used as Clint Eastwood's tank in Kelly's Heroes.​As for a paintjob, at least it is gonna protect it. Clint Eastwood didn't have a tank in Kelly's Heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) No, its got a 76mm. We had to fit a radio externally on the back of the turret in an armoured boxed to make room for it, and we plated over the hull gunners mg to make an ammo bustle. I found a good link on these some time ago, and annoyingly ive lost it. I seem to recall these were tanks reengineered from US stocks in the US, mainly VVSS spring tanks so the US could transition over fully to HVSS spring tanks.They were all were rebarrelled with 76mm's. Which is the explanation in the film for why they have long barrels, they are really 76mm tanks, not 75mm shermans. Basically they were for supplying tanks to allies in the early cold war, though I cant remember off the top of my head whether Yugoslavia got them direct, or they were from someone else. Presumably direct. I seem to recall they got US jet aircraft in the same period. Edited July 12, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Here we go, knew I had it somewhere. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/m4a3e4/m4a3e4.html They did go direct, but Denmark seem to have taken delivery of some as well. Edited July 12, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Here we go, knew I had it somewhere. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/m4a3e4/m4a3e4.html They did go direct, but Denmark seem to have taken delivery of some as well.I stand corrected, it was a post war modification of 105mm Shermans to 76mm. That explains the turret as all US M4 (76) used the T23 turret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Yeah, I have to admit the first time I saw it, I thought it had started out as a firefly as well. It doesnt seem to have been a particularly common conversion, so its not surprising its not better known. Id never even heard of them before I chanced on that site. Found it whilst researching the Oddball sherman as a modelling project. Edited July 12, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Clint Eastwood didn't have a tank in Kelly's Heroes. Brainfart for Donald Sutherland It is M4A3E4, post-ww2 refitting of small turret Shermans with 76mm gun. It was used by Yugoslavia and Denmark. India and Pakistan used conversion based on both M4A1 and M4A3. They were acquired by Yugoslavia through MDAP.Here is a technical data card that was bolted to every tank:Some of the tanks were rebuilt in Osaka US army depot/arsenal during Korean war, but I am not sure if any that ended in Yugoslavia were. Edited July 12, 2018 by bojan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 That's very good (and speedy) detective work guys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I rather like them with the longer barrels. They have a 'World of Tanks' look to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Series of photos of testing M20 Bazooka at APG. Target is Panther:https://sassik.livejournal.com/460584.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Series of photos of testing M20 Bazooka at APG. Target is Panther:https://sassik.livejournal.com/460584.htmlIt's interesting that there is the USAF was involved. Note the sleeve insignia in photos #11, 13 and 14. That's an Airman, E-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 1977: Swiss Panzer 68 manufactured at Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte in Thun. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 In Poland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Sandy loam is one of the preferred soils for field training. Little risk of throwing track and clean up at the washrack is a breeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Plus that desert tan blends in rather well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 10 tanks and APCs sunk at Sidon, Lebanon to create an underwater place for divers and fish The guns turned toward Israel to show solidarity with the Palestinian people Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 10 tanks and APCs sunk at Sidon, Lebanon to create an underwater place for divers and fish The guns turned toward Israel to show solidarity with the Palestinian people Source Politicization of the underwater tank park might help it get more visitors, or at least the anti-Israel ones, which otherwise, probably hardly anyone would probably go down and dive. My first thought anyway.--------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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