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U.S. Medium Tank M4A3 Sherman 75mm Gun: 2002: Yes: Rebox with new parts 35251: U.S. Medium Tank M4A3 Sherman 105mm Howitzer Assault Support: 2002: Yes: Rebox with new parts 35252: German King Tiger Ardennes Front Königstiger "Einsatz-Kommando Ardennes" 2002: Yes: Rebox with new parts 35253: German Panzer Division 'Frontline Reconnaissance Team ...
M4A3(75)W – M4A3 with 75mm M3 gun. 47° glacis with large drivers' hatches. Shifted ammunition lockers to hull floor in water-glycol jacketed lockers to decrease risk of fire, known as "wet stowage".
The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II. They were primarily mounted on tanks , such as the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman , but one variant was also used as an air-to-ground gun on the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber aircraft .
The Sherman would enter combat in 1942 equipped with the 75 mm gun M3, a 40-caliber gun that could penetrate an estimated 88 mm (3.5 in) of rolled homogeneous armor (RHA) at 90 degrees, a range of 100 m (110 yd) and 73 mm (2.9 in) at 1,000 m (1,100 yd) firing the usual M61 APCBC round, and equipped with an M38A2 telescopic gunsight. [66]
Pakistani M4A1E6 Sherman on display at Ayub Park.. E4/E6 Shermans – Two of what would become the last of the US-produced Sherman tank variants. During the early 1950s, US Ordnance military depots and/or outsourced private civilian contractors installed the 76 mm M1 tank gun in the older small-type turret (designed for the original 75 mm M3 tank gun) of M4A1 and M4A3 Shermans.
Sherman IVA – M4A3(76)W, Sherman IV with 76 mm M1A2 L/55 gun; Sherman IVB – M4A3(105), Sherman IV with 105 mm M4 L/22.5 howitzer Sherman IVBY – M4A3(105) HVSS, Sherman IVB with HVSS; Sherman V – M4A4 with 75 mm M3 L/40 gun and Chrysler A57 multibank 30-cylinder "cloverleaf" petrol engine in a longer rear hull with more widely spaced bogies
The first standard-production 76 mm gun Sherman was an M4A1, accepted in January 1944, and the first standard-production 105 mm howitzer Sherman was an M4 accepted in February 1944. In June–July 1944, the Army accepted a limited run of 254 M4A3E2 Jumbo Shermans, which had very thick armor, and the 75 mm gun in a new, heavier T23-style turret ...
M4A3 (76) Sherman – medium tank armed with an 76 mm anti-tank gun, entered US service in 1944; Panther – medium tank, entered German service in 1943. Sherman Firefly – US-built M4/M4A4 Sherman re-armed with a 17-pdr anti-tank gun at a UK Royal Ordinance Factory, entered service in 1944. T-34-85 – medium tank, entered Soviet service in 1944.