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Cutaway Sherman showing transmission and driver's seat. The United States Army Ordnance Department designed the M4 medium tank as a replacement for the M3 medium tank. The M3 was an up-gunned development of the M2 medium tank of 1939, in turn, derived from the M2 light tank of 1935. The M3 was developed as a stopgap measure until a new turret ...
Original – Cutaway of an M4A4 Sherman Light Tank of the World War II era United States Army. This is a spectacular and visually stunning image of a World War II era M4 Sherman Tank, with the major components, weaponry, and operating features labeled for identification. I was taken with the image, and elected to place it here for Featured ...
4 knots (7 km/h) swimming. DD or duplex drive tanks, nicknamed " Donald Duck tanks", [1] were a type of amphibious swimming tank developed by the British during the Second World War. The phrase is mostly used for the Duplex Drive variant of the M4 Sherman medium tank, that was used by the Western Allies during and after the Normandy Landings in ...
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The M4 Sherman's 75 mm gun would not penetrate the Tiger frontally at any range, and needed to be within 100 m (300 ft) to achieve a side penetration against the 80 mm upper hull superstructure. The Sherman's upgraded 76 mm gun might penetrate the Tiger's driver's front plate from 600 m (2,000 ft), the nose from 400 m (1,300 ft) and the turret ...
Sherman DD (Duplex drive) – Amphibious M4 Variant produced by US and British shops using M4A1, M4A2 and M4A4 donor vehicles. Sherman Firefly – About 2,000 M4s (Firefly IC) and M4A4s (Firefly VC) were re-armed by the British in 1944 with their 17-pounder (76.2 mm) guns as the Sherman Firefly.
Che Guevara beside a M4 Sherman shortly after the Battle of Santa Clara. Cuba originally had tanks from Great Britain and the United States and armored vehicles but didn't manufacture any. From these beginnings the modern Cuban Armoured forces grew and procured modern armoured fighting vehicles from Russia and Soviet Bloc that served during the ...
Sherman (Krupp) – Six early salvaged Shermans had a Krupp 75 mm field gun to replace the original gun destroyed during post–World War II scrapping. Later these tanks were rearmed with 105 mm M4 howitzers. Sherman M-1 – Israeli designation of any Sherman model armed with the 76 mm gun M1. Super Sherman M-1 – Israeli designation of M4A1 ...