Sherman tank Fireffly

[pershing22]

Actually and not meny people know this the panzer 4 (g-j) weight only 25 tons compaired to the 36.4 tons of the sherman.

[inditled]

i find it funny that in the years of 1939-1945 that a litter over half the tanks made by america were shermans

[Mcplkelly]

The mark 4 was somewhat better. Its gun was higher velocity, had less drop, thus shot flatter and was easier to get a first hit then sherman 75mm gun. Also hull armor was 80mm, which meant the sherman 75mm would struggle with the hull at ranges greater then 500m.

Sherman 76 and sherman firefly though were better then mark 4 though. But minorly so like the Mark 4 was over the sherman 75.

It really came down to the crews.

[gunmetalxXx]

the firefly had an strong cannon. But the armour was bad... not enaugh armor. The 17 pnd couldn't destroy a king tiger from the front. But a TIGER I.

But few were built of it...

[PETEEAT]

in fact the british 17 pnd  had better ballistics

then the tiger 1 and panther 88mm and 75mm guns making it one of the best ,if not the best tank gun of the war , unfortunately for firefire crews they couldn't get into a protracted engagement with the tiger or panther

because of their woeful frontal protection

[toyhouse]

The Sherman was the best tool for the the allies job! It was agile, easy to manufacture, modify, retrofit with various engines etc. and was a beautifully simple design overall. Shermans lasted in service for 40 plus yrs, a testament to it's design. It's silly to compare Shermans and Tigers. In war for both, advantages/disadvantages.

[nighttrain1067]

The Sherman was a great MEDIUM tank.When forced to fight a "heavy", yes it got ugly quick.

[Mcplkelly]

Secondly on a small percentage of shermans ever encountered tanks, something like 15-20%. All other shermans encountered Dug in infantry and AT guns. Thus its low velocity gun was the best because of its effective HE shell, far superior to the axis 75mm and ever 88mm due to the fact it would not dig itself into the ground like a Higher Velocity 88 HE round. Even the tanks it did meet, chances were they were the Mark4 panzers or StugG series, which the 75mm was able to defeat often enough.

[Mcplkelly]

The 5 to 1 ratio of shermans to tigers is an estimate. No facts to back it up. Here is the flaw. Besides tigers there were 88 flak guns and Pak43s that could put 88mm holes in tanks, so there is no way to know what 88mm weapon killed an enemy tank. Second, tigers worked in groups with other less capable tanks in support. The chances of 5 shermans running into 1 tiger was remote, thus there is no way for said scenario to occur.

[Metallicakicksbutt]

Most german heavy tanks were destroyed by allied fighter aircraft not by Shermans. The Firefly could knock out a Tiger from a reasonable distance.

[XIITheDisciple]

....or break by themself, complex heavy tanks were kill by there own mechanics

[Trapper11]

Anyone for the Anti-Nazi Group (A.N.G.)??

[xiso]

I love the sherman !!! :)

Im german and i know the german tanks were a lot better.. but this tank has style !!!!

This fuckin workhorse owned a lot against the Tanks produced from porsche.. and anyone knows what cars porsche build today. Thanks for uploading this vid :)

[revolrz22]

Tiger this, Tiger that. Stop talking about the Tiger. The most common German tank was the Panzer Mark IV, and the Sherman was roughly comparable to that. Late production M4A3s were technically superior. Fireflies and Easy Eights weren't badly outclassed by Panthers either.

[Puppeman]

My god

[Stuka87]

Unfortunately it took several shermans to destroy a tiger. We beat the germans with numbers, not technology. Nice to see another well maintained M4 out there.

[MarineCorp]

We barely killed the Nazis with the Sherman, even if it was the firefly it still had disadvantages, its extremely thin armor, Its ability to burn uncontrolably if it was shot at and disabled.

[johnnyb2001]

I'm really sorry Harentrois I never meant to accuse you of beign a Nazi....anything but. I sincerely appreciate your films of the M4 and I guess you're Belgian.... having lived in the country, I know that I wouldn't want to live in a friendlier place. By the way I'm from the UK en ik ben frans en nederlandstalig. Ik heb voor twee jaaren in Brussel gewoond.

[johnnyb2001]

It was 60 years ago but you're stll a nazi

[harentrois]

Don't get me wrong. I am no nazi ! We do everything to remember the bravery of the Allies to save the world from the nazi invasion. Everytime we go out with our tanks is during a commemoration to give tribute to the sacrifice of our Allies.

[johnnyb2001]

We killed the Nazis pigs with this bad boy!!!! xxxx the UK and US

[iloveaudicoupe]

LOL. Stupid idiot.

Read Books to know what happend !

KINGTIGER !!!!