Are russian tanks really this bad? Destroyed by up gunned good old shermans?
>>64307839>semi-decent gun and ammo>Very well trained crews>Modern tank doctrinesIt's not as much about the tank but a broader approach that decides who wins battles and wars. So to speak the IDF was much more competent using their tanks even though they were "just" Shermans. The french 105 did a good job at penetrating, they had good optics and a good diesel engine. And they were just better than the arabs.
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>>64307850>semi-decentIt's got what is essentially the Frog L7 anon, firing HEAT-FS. That's practically the best the west had for quite a while
>>64307866Nah man, not really. Compared to the L7 it has a considerably lower pressure. And the Sherman version also had a shortened barrel. AFAIK the IDF tried to get the L7 into the Sherm but had to stop because it just didn't work. >Dat time years ago when I saw a scale model of a "What if?" Panther that had been upgraded by the IDF instead of the ShermanDon't worry searching the site. It's gone. There's another IDF Panther but it's not the same.
it really didn't. your thinking of the patton m45and the persing M4.2the sherman wasn't that good at korea trust me.yes yes. the northkoreans where using the old chi ha and the T55no the m4 got destoryed by T55's all the timeno early in the war M4's where used against recycled chi ha's which they did meh againistbut the T55's killed everything the allies had.expect the british challager 2 and the 2nd gen persing and paton m45In fact the paton m45 was desgined to take out t55'sthe T55 had better armor better gun and better mg'sit was fast at a top speed of 60kmh/40mphwhere as the M4 had a top speed of 30mph/5kmh and thy only used the fury varient the number 5 varitant.no it wasn't good by the korea war.in fact you could say what made the allies lose the korean mommium all together.they where only used because the persing and patton 45 whetre nevr in huge numbersit was a very awkward time.they used the rocket laugher version as well in korea alot.beleive it or not the most successful version was the rocket toped version. that was used in the war.too mad there wasn't that many though.
>>64307874They were firing HEAT, as long as they could hit the target the muzzle velocity being lower doesn't really matter. Sure hitting the target gets harder, but as long as it hits it's gonna go through
>>64307876>the sherman wasn't that good at korea trust me.>they where only used because the persing and patton 45 whetre nevr in huge numbersI remember hearing the claim was the crews preferred the shermans because of underperforming engine of the pershing
>>64307876>the northkoreans where using the old chi ha and the T55way to out yourself as a know nothing nigger. it's always the fucking namefags and shitskins, man.
>>64307876There weren't any T-55s in the Korean war
Imho soviet tanks were never good in a real fight. Even their WWII tanks (especially the IS series) had more breakdowns than a Tiger II. They were unreliable and cooked the crews more than any other tank on this planet. And now they have flying turrets to reach other stars.
>>64307899>Imho soviet tanks were never good in a real fight.early soviet tanks lacked radios and where forced to use signal flags, but once we get to the T-34-85, its decent, fast, has effective gun that can threaten German heavy armor frontally and is reasonably well protected
>>64307909the 85mm ZiS-S-53 was to 99% used with AP ammunition and only good in the range from 0 to 250m.While germans, and the same goes for the israelis, destroyed many tanks at a distance between 1km-2km.
>>64307909russian copium
>>64307936russians don't even know their tanks didn't have radios, mate
>>64307886>>64307887>shows they where not there on the earl-y days.okay retard.the T60's are all chinesewe are not talking about chinese tanks okay.also late war fags need to stay outthe m4 sherman was use almost as mainstay in the early years and was the leading cause of losses.th persing was introduced in summer 1963now fuck off.late war veterns didn;'t ahve to fight as hard as us early fighters. also weapons got hella better mid way though the war. man read a history book or something.persings only took over after 1963and towards end the paton m40 and m45the challager 2 was used even more then tha any other thank of that war.even though persings literally out numbered everything. by winter 1963but if you where there in 1959yeah that was bad man real bad.that war some somewhat short dew to the badd ass commanders on both sides.literal war horse of men.next your'll say the p18 shooting star was useful against other air unitsplease go fuck your self late war fags.
>>64307956the T-60 is a light soviet tank with 45mm doorknocker
>>64307850Did they keep the stabilizer on the M51? Did it work with the frog 105?
No.64307961we're not talking about RUSSSIAN Versions here you coping knuckle brainchines made their own versions. and they don't have the 45mm gunthis are CUSTOM versionsyes mods where a thing in korea.i mean just look at the M16 grandand it looks exactly like the gtrand but a magizeine on it.it the year of customized millitary hard where we are talking about.either you guessing your your too youngjust fuck off. you don't have to be right all the time young fag.
>>64307976*M14the m14 is such a franken rifle and you assume the chinese didn't have fucked up shitand then you think the norks didn't get inventive*faceplam*look i get you got the america FUCK yeah!n type shit going on.But hello some of us where on the ground.the sherman wasn't shit.but it did become shit the longer the war went on.i mean it wasn't even that great in ww2 either.it was just needed as general patton once said.just as the T50 and T55 where used because russia wasn't going to give the new t6x family to anything.the IS-3s is the T55it just got custom radio and better engine that got antifreeze and it was given a bulldozer fount which isn't shown in displays.and no the m4 didn't pwn anything that was of the era.the fury isn't a super man. its 90mm light tankthe IS-3s is heavy MBTstop coping retard.also you may of notice some IS-3s had padded trackssnow with standingagain i told you about custom jobs being a thing in the korean war being a thingthe russian T55 looks nothing like the IS-3swhich is why there is name changebecause the turrent is NOT from the host countyM4 where left overs of the 1944 fury and uparmored version called version 5which had a cooler and better raido and newer motor to deal with cold.this was unheard off but really they didn't change all that much other than replacing the mg's for flamethrowerskeep in mind all versions of M4 where used in koreanot just the furies but all versionstrust me when the usa deploys it DEPLOYS.again it was used in mass just like the other war it was inthe persing really is the star of the korena war.and not the m4 coffin
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>>64307839The T-55 is kind of average in the worse and best ways possible: it can win from any position (like coring a modern MBT from a side shot) just as well as it can lose from one (like getting cored by a WWII vehicle from its own side because that's where the protection was sacrificed to keep it from weighing as much as a Tiger II.)
>>64307899if you read the israeli accounts of the yom kippur war they give a lot of praise to the T-55 >>64307866it was a low pressure 105nothing like the L7the reason they were slinging HEAT is that it didn't have the velocity for APDS
>>64307965no
>>64307909>decent>fast>reasonably well protectedGun was usable, I'll give it that, but the tank was so horrible and plagued with horrendous production and design flaws that it would've been better to use that steel for literally anything else
>>64308248>they give a lot of praise to the T-55They are praising their own modifications for the captured T-54/55/62 tanks... the Tiran-4+ tanks.They always make fun how dumb the soviet engineers were and how better this tank is with Israeli modifications.
>>64308376They did the same with the shermans. They loved their up gunned Shermans.
>>64308376nah i'm paraphrasing from one of the write ups of michael massthey are smaller, lighter and yet still as well armoredthey didn't spray the crew with burning oil when penetrated and they didn't have awkward angles so they were more survivable their transmission and suspension was more reliable and unlike the israeli tanks, they had night vision but crew comfort was abysmal and so is endurance as a result
SHERMAN STRONK
>>64307874>Compared to the L7 it has a considerably lower pressure.But the round was better.
A Sherman can give you a very nice⦠edge
>>64307854These seem cool until someone breaks out any anti-tank weapon or a real tank shows up.
>>64308904So, you haven't heard of when a Greyhound nuked a Tiger, huh?