Yeah that is really surprising and also who knows what others for JJ to get into since there's many and maybe ones for the AK-47, M2 Browning Machine Gun, DSHK Machine Gun and also there were other parts for the tank as well like a flamethrower variant in which it had a towed fuel tank may check that out as well among many other topics.
Yes and no... "Kallee-ope" is the proper pronunciation when they're on Great Lakes steamers, look it up. English is a beautiful language, so ductile. "Peruse" once meant to read carefully and thoroughly, and look what happened to "literally" literally in our lifetime. "Regardless" became "irregardless," and (gods help us all) is "irreregardless" among some, just as "flammable" and "inflammable" once became interchangeable.
the morale affect of the Calliope is really interesting, maybe it didn't have the best accuracy but if I saw 60 rockets coming at me from a M4 Sherman I think I'd be in a surrendering mood darn pretty quick, great vid!
Also good on this system and who knows maybe get an in depth perspective on the Katyusha Rocket Launcher or maybe still looking for any Soviet weapons parts RPG-7 and AK-47 still are open and have a cool history among who knows what and many others there's even a flamethrower attachment for tanks as well.
Currently building a model kit of the Sherman / Calliope. Even in scale the contraption does look out of place on the tank. Nice video and history of the weapon. Tanks a lot.
Another video topic I would recommend is the Bell P-39 Airacobra Not just because it’s an underrated fighter in ww2 But because among the nations to use it, outside of the US it was used the most by the Soviet Red Air Force.
I realised this for myself a few months ago. I got a coupon for it and was a little disappointed since I thought it was for USA , for which I have no planes unlocked. You can imagine my delight when I saw it was the USSR version. As such, it has helped fill out lineups very ably
The Canadian Sherman tanks were pretty effective in sunny Italee and Normandy, Belgium and Holland...their kill rate as well as the Polish and British tankers was pretty damn good...just saying
The big problem with multi-barrel rockets is you can fire them all off in a minute but it takes a couple of supply trucks and several hours to reload, in the meantime you've got the weight and bulk of the launcher hindering you
Using this in Battlefield 5 was a good time. But i've casually destroyed/seen so many players getting positively vaporised in WT, i never felt like spending any real money on it! Huge respect to the real tankers who brought their whimsical pipes into battle during WW2.
It's funny when you realize this massive, imposing artillery rocket system has about the same range as a modern heavy ATGM like TOW or Javelin...Which you could hide under a bush.
Pity you didn't use footage from the Company of Heroes games, the first two have the Calliope as units for the US, band the whizzbang appears in the third game. The first game also features the walking stuka, and its rocket frames on the sides of captured French Hotchkiss light tanks, as well as the nebelwerfer. The second game also has the walking stuka, as well as the panzerwerfer, land-mattress, Sherman tulip, and Katyusha. The third game also has the nebelwerfer. And a couple others I might be forgetting.
The editing on this video was great! I am often drawn to your channel for its straightforward approach, thankfully abstaining from exciting music and language. The transitions and intergrations present in this video, in my opinion, compliments your style well
Good thing planners came to their senses about using them on/right after D Day - there was more than enough fire support available in the form of the LCRs on the day itself aalong with naval gunfire support which stuck around for over a month afterwards.
Those things are deadly in Company of Heroes, able to quickly turn German infantry and weapon crews to fertilizer. They played a critical role in one match my friends nicknamed hamburger hill where we caught a large chunk of the enemy army waiting on a hill, we unleashed 1-2 Calliopes, atleast 1 but probably multiple howizers on the top of the hill with a straffing and bombing run on the road down the hill to pin down fleeing units.
"Aid, O Calliope, the martial song!" the Roman epic poet Virgil, in the Aeneid (Calliope was the Greek goddess of poetry and eloquence, and was thought to be Homer's muse for the Illiad.)
I wonder if this system was ever made for the M26 Pershing. Probably not considering how cumbersome the system is in general and how the war ended soon after both were introduced. But a nice and unique version of a tank with already nice and unique versions of the tank. Just goes to show how versatile the M4 Sherman is.
The Western Allies' answer to the Katyusha, huh, and one with a cuter name too. Man, a bunch of Strike Witches footage sure won't feel out of place with Girls und Panzer. 0:46: Some... interesting folk would disagree, especially with experience with the Moaning Minnie. 3:18: Partially not unlike a Magella Tank from Mobile Suit Gundam, right? Addendum: No Company of Heroes game footage?
The top-mounted .50(?) caliber machine gun on the Sherman shown at the end is an add-on to the Sherman as well! The Sherman was either a versatile tank, or a tank that sucked so bad that everyone tried to modify it in order to make it suck less.
I believe there was also a trailer version of the Calliope. And the Russian version was also called Stalin's Organs. The Rockets used by the British being the same as those used on the likes of the Beaufighter meant that this would give the British tank the same as the broadside of a light cruiser.
I had always heard people used calliope as a negative adjective or an expletive in the past. I always thought it was something synonymous to calamity and not a weird artillery shaped quasi organ.
Good video and also speaking of other weapons for a tank there's also a flamethrower variant too and also ones for removing landmines anyway may want to look into that or saw it in a documentary like Weaponology.
I always wondered how they were exactly employed tactically. I COULD see a section or two of these pulled up outside a German town, dropping an immediate hellstorm of rocket fire on it just before the armored infantry and tanks tried to storm it, then the Calliopes joining in with main gun fire support.
Man i remember from company of heroes what a weapon of mass destruction this tank is and it is a very good competitor to the nebelwerfer and katyusha rockets.
I thought you were going to say: "The enlisted G.I.s named it Calliope because, 100 years ago, all American school children received a well rounded education that covered Greek mythology..."
Ive always like this tank since i bought a toy model of one in the 70s 😊 By no means the most effective rocket launcher of ww2 but way better than the German half track ones.
0:53 that music is outrageously whimsical
*slowly transitions to utter death*
so thats what a calliope looks like
There is one company of heroes pc game if you ever played it
Yeah like a steam harp
I thought it was mounted on wheels like in the old C&C intro. But I think this is.the steamboat mounted one.
Yeah that is really surprising and also who knows what others for JJ to get into since there's many and maybe ones for the AK-47, M2 Browning Machine Gun, DSHK Machine Gun and also there were other parts for the tank as well like a flamethrower variant in which it had a towed fuel tank may check that out as well among many other topics.
And here I thought it was a bug with like fifty legs
Rocket launchers mounted to armored cars?
Yep, that sounds like something we'd come up with.
The wildlife here up is no joke.
Seriously, a moose can take out everyone in the car.
I'm just happy "Calliope" was pronounced correctly.
It's always risky for me. I was only 80% sure...
Agreed. Tired of hearing “Cally-ope.”
@@trouserarmadillo8616seriously. I'm not even an older person but I know how to pronounce it cause I've heard it in music
Yes and no... "Kallee-ope" is the proper pronunciation when they're on Great Lakes steamers, look it up.
English is a beautiful language, so ductile. "Peruse" once meant to read carefully and thoroughly, and look what happened to "literally" literally in our lifetime.
"Regardless" became "irregardless," and (gods help us all) is "irreregardless" among some, just as "flammable" and "inflammable" once became interchangeable.
@@mbryson2899 thanks for the lore info
Loved using the Calliope in R.U.S.E.
Miss that game
@@KhanWolf95 Same. Wish Ubisoft didn't take it off Steam. Idk why they'd do that
the morale affect of the Calliope is really interesting, maybe it didn't have the best accuracy but if I saw 60 rockets coming at me from a M4 Sherman I think I'd be in a surrendering mood darn pretty quick, great vid!
Finally, a JJ video of my favorite Sherman.
That's great to hear!
Nice callback at the end to the very start... and the usual pun. ;) Calliope always makes me think of the turrets in MechWarrior 4.
dang I totally forget about MechWarrior that would have been a sweet inclusion.
So many LRMs...
@@Hybris51129At 4km range, that is more like SRM...
Can't wait to see Mori T34 Calliope on her next stream.
Guh
0:58 Your best edit yet, Johnny. The fade from Calliope to Calliope, the harmony between both the rockets and the instrument.
Thanks so much! I almost abandoned this one, too, as I was struggling to find entertaining clips.
Also good on this system and who knows maybe get an in depth perspective on the Katyusha Rocket Launcher or maybe still looking for any Soviet weapons parts RPG-7 and AK-47 still are open and have a cool history among who knows what and many others there's even a flamethrower attachment for tanks as well.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqJust your voice is entertainment enough mate. Your vids are super relaxing to me.
I can't believe this Tank sung the Ending Song for The Suicide Squad Isekai Anime.
The vtuber yes
Dozens of exposed rocket tubes get placed on top of your tank. ” laughs and freedom. Ha ha I’m in danger.”
in reality imagine being an artilleryman and getting to sit in a tank for protection when you have to fire, pretty sweet gig
I think I only became aware of the Sherman calliope after playing the first company of heroes.
Currently building a model kit of the Sherman / Calliope. Even in scale the contraption does look out of place on the tank. Nice video and history of the weapon. Tanks a lot.
Happy modeling
Going to war? There is a Sherman for that.
The composition of this video with the music and humour was very pleasing. Good work!
Need Katyusha rockets? There is a Sherman for that.
Another video topic I would recommend is the Bell P-39 Airacobra
Not just because it’s an underrated fighter in ww2
But because among the nations to use it, outside of the US it was used the most by the Soviet Red Air Force.
I realised this for myself a few months ago. I got a coupon for it and was a little disappointed since I thought it was for USA , for which I have no planes unlocked. You can imagine my delight when I saw it was the USSR version. As such, it has helped fill out lineups very ably
Great video nice to see strike witches featured
Tank crew: “hey can I get some rockets”
Designers: “only a spoonful”
Calliope has gotta be one of my favourite Shermans
The fact that it's called T34 caused me a lot of confusion.
T34 Calliope
T34 heavy
T-34 THE T-34
Then the T-72!
If the US Army revives the idea, I bet they'll call it the "Armata"
Only that confuses you about US Army designations ? You're doing well
Which M1 do you want?
That Sher was a good one Man. Thanks Johnny, catch ya on the next one.
The Canadian Sherman tanks were pretty effective in sunny Italee and Normandy, Belgium and Holland...their kill rate as well as the Polish and British tankers was pretty damn good...just saying
It definitely would make me glad I was on our side seeing these things in action.
I didn't know it was named afer an instrument! Thank you Johnny!
When the Chaplain says I want an organ to the combat engineer.
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLRIGHT
The big problem with multi-barrel rockets is you can fire them all off in a minute but it takes a couple of supply trucks and several hours to reload, in the meantime you've got the weight and bulk of the launcher hindering you
Man, the tank's name sound very similar to a certain death reaper Vtuber.
Using this in Battlefield 5 was a good time. But i've casually destroyed/seen so many players getting positively vaporised in WT, i never felt like spending any real money on it!
Huge respect to the real tankers who brought their whimsical pipes into battle during WW2.
I think I remember this from Battlefield 1942
Did not know this was named after a ridiculously obnoxious instrument. Not sure which system is harder on the ears
You spelled whimsical incorrectly lol
Is this the famous rapping Vtuber people talk about?
What
And don't forget that the IJN also had a dive bomber called "Suisei" 😂
@@scarletcrusader5431If you don’t get the joke, he’s talking bout Hololive Mori Calliope
@@kokutai3331 Yeah no idea what that is
@@scarletcrusader5431 Google what a Vtuber is, then Google Hololive
Fun fact, after the war this tank started carrier as Vtuber.
Babe wake up, look how cool this tank is.
It's funny when you realize this massive, imposing artillery rocket system has about the same range as a modern heavy ATGM like TOW or Javelin...Which you could hide under a bush.
Damn just missed it but great video johnny :)
It boosts my morale as well
Whats good johnny
A video clip from RUSE. I loved that game. Played it all the time on the PS3.
My favorite instrument
Pity you didn't use footage from the Company of Heroes games, the first two have the Calliope as units for the US, band the whizzbang appears in the third game.
The first game also features the walking stuka, and its rocket frames on the sides of captured French Hotchkiss light tanks, as well as the nebelwerfer.
The second game also has the walking stuka, as well as the panzerwerfer, land-mattress, Sherman tulip, and Katyusha.
The third game also has the nebelwerfer. And a couple others I might be forgetting.
Rooseveltorgel
The editing on this video was great! I am often drawn to your channel for its straightforward approach, thankfully abstaining from exciting music and language. The transitions and intergrations present in this video, in my opinion, compliments your style well
"With his very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground"
do you prefer Mannfred Mann or ol' Bruce?
Just a small point: 0:25 I think it is more correct to say the rockets were fired electrically rather than electronically. ❤️
Great video Johnny, loved using the calliope in Battle field 5.
Good thing planners came to their senses about using them on/right after D Day - there was more than enough fire support available in the form of the LCRs on the day itself aalong with naval gunfire support which stuck around for over a month afterwards.
Those things are deadly in Company of Heroes, able to quickly turn German infantry and weapon crews to fertilizer. They played a critical role in one match my friends nicknamed hamburger hill where we caught a large chunk of the enemy army waiting on a hill, we unleashed 1-2 Calliopes, atleast 1 but probably multiple howizers on the top of the hill with a straffing and bombing run on the road down the hill to pin down fleeing units.
"Aid, O Calliope, the martial song!" the Roman epic poet Virgil, in the Aeneid
(Calliope was the Greek goddess of poetry and eloquence, and was thought to be Homer's muse for the Illiad.)
Being strap with the tanks gun was so genuinely practical
I wonder if this system was ever made for the M26 Pershing. Probably not considering how cumbersome the system is in general and how the war ended soon after both were introduced. But a nice and unique version of a tank with already nice and unique versions of the tank. Just goes to show how versatile the M4 Sherman is.
There was a modification for M26 (I think it's the M26) that added 48 M8 rockets onto the side of the turret using the mantlet to control elevation
The Western Allies' answer to the Katyusha, huh, and one with a cuter name too.
Man, a bunch of Strike Witches footage sure won't feel out of place with Girls und Panzer.
0:46: Some... interesting folk would disagree, especially with experience with the Moaning Minnie.
3:18: Partially not unlike a Magella Tank from Mobile Suit Gundam, right?
Addendum: No Company of Heroes game footage?
2:50 R.U.S.E. ❤ What an awesome game it was, i met one of my best friend thanks to that!
Great video :)
Another very interesting and informative video. Thank you.
Videos on the M22 Locust, M48 Patton, Soviet K1 & K2 Tanks, & France's Char B1 would be cool.
It's criminal that the Sherman Whizbang and Sherman Tulip aren't in War Thunder yet..
What musical instrument do you play?
Me : 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒑𝒆
Aha! I know there will be War Thunder footage ! ! !
Johnny , you have found your 'muse'
Magnificient as Always mate. Also Don't forget about the Soviet Katyusha version made on T-60 , T-70 and T-80 light tank chassis
Interesting design. Ages ago, I had a1/72 model of this weapon
The top-mounted .50(?) caliber machine gun on the Sherman shown at the end is an add-on to the Sherman as well!
The Sherman was either a versatile tank, or a tank that sucked so bad that everyone tried to modify it in order to make it suck less.
I believe there was also a trailer version of the Calliope. And the Russian version was also called Stalin's Organs.
The Rockets used by the British being the same as those used on the likes of the Beaufighter meant that this would give the British tank the same as the broadside of a light cruiser.
Still hoping I'll get that shoutout on the m16...
In battlefield 5 and war thunder this thing is a absolute beast!
I still have nightmares of these from the Tiger mission on Battlefield V.
See ya on the next steam boat Johnny.
Hope ur league games are going well Johnny.
I had always heard people used calliope as a negative adjective or an expletive in the past. I always thought it was something synonymous to calamity and not a weird artillery shaped quasi organ.
This organ plays a tune I certainly would not stick around for to hear... at the receiving end.
Indeed a dangerous Sherman!
Piping hot video fresh from the oven
Wow, seeing RUSE gameplay really brought me back to my childhood.
Good video and also speaking of other weapons for a tank there's also a flamethrower variant too and also ones for removing landmines anyway may want to look into that or saw it in a documentary like Weaponology.
T34, T72, M16 militaries need to be more creative with their numbers
Make notes, Gaijin!
new vid lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to see RUSE being used for Gameplay
I would have thought it would have sounded like circus music
Suddenly, I want to play Red Alert.
Ayyyy its the worst financial decision ive ever made!
It made soldiers going Team Fortress style.
My favourite USA tank in War thunder mobile
I always love to use this in Battlefield V and hate it at the same time 😅
AND THE CALLIOPE FELL TO THE GROUND
I always wondered how they were exactly employed tactically. I COULD see a section or two of these pulled up outside a German town, dropping an immediate hellstorm of rocket fire on it just before the armored infantry and tanks tried to storm it, then the Calliopes joining in with main gun fire support.
"Download World of Tanks today and get a Sherman that fires M16s, in a rocket!" 🇺🇸🤠
her: t-34
the guy she doesn't want you to worry about: t-34-85
her father: T34 heavy tank
you:
Music to my ears
Man i remember from company of heroes what a weapon of mass destruction this tank is and it is a very good competitor to the nebelwerfer and katyusha rockets.
Ok hear me out calliope jumbo
I thought you were going to say:
"The enlisted G.I.s named it Calliope because, 100 years ago, all American school children received a well rounded education that covered Greek mythology..."
Ive always like this tank since i bought a toy model of one in the 70s 😊 By no means the most effective rocket launcher of ww2 but way better than the German half track ones.
Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII expansion had also Calliope. :)
The word calliope is a slang word for toilet in Greek, especially in the military. 😅
And Calliope is also one of the nine Muses.
Just like 40K’s Adepts Sororitas - Exocist
Rocket planes!
T34 now that's a little confusing ... T72 okay I'm seeing a pattern here.