Sadly the US army dumped a lot of the obsoleted sherman variants like the small hatch 75mm gun once, out of which most had fought their way threw afrika, france belgium into germany and were incredible pices of history into the sea after the war because they didnt see a reason to ship them all the way back to the US again. As a result most shermans that are still alive today are the once that the US army faild to find when they were cleaning up in europe or the once that had stayed in britain because reasons. In other words you may be right. There are probably more shermans in europe then in the US. And there were even more in the past but the french rebuild a lot of them to the "Super Shermans" like the M4 SA-50 or M4 FL-10 and those went away to see service in many middle eastern conflicts aswell as finding their way into the budget militarys of poor countrys. I think chile had shermans untill 2002 at which point those tanks had seen over 57 years of service which is just absolutely insane.
@@josiahricafrente585 I do remember someone saying somewhere once to "know your enemy". Why spend the money on a more advanced tank when the enemy can't even hurt a Sherman?
The smoke is from the oil collecting in the bottom cylinders of the engine that is why the tank crew would hand crank it to cycle the oil back into the system before cold starting it.
@@CS-fb3ss In this application it is mounted vertically behind the turret with a prop shaft transferring the power to the transaxle in the front of the tank.
@@chriscat85 There is a removable hand crank that clips to the rear of tank and inserts into a hole that is in line with the snout of the radial engine.
Idk how accurate the following statement will be, but I kinda feel like Belgium has more restored/running US WWII vehicles than the US does.
Sadly the US army dumped a lot of the obsoleted sherman variants like the small hatch 75mm gun once, out of which most had fought their way threw afrika, france belgium into germany and were incredible pices of history into the sea after the war because they didnt see a reason to ship them all the way back to the US again.
As a result most shermans that are still alive today are the once that the US army faild to find when they were cleaning up in europe or the once that had stayed in britain because reasons.
In other words you may be right. There are probably more shermans in europe then in the US. And there were even more in the past but the french rebuild a lot of them to the "Super Shermans" like the M4 SA-50 or M4 FL-10 and those went away to see service in many middle eastern conflicts aswell as finding their way into the budget militarys of poor countrys. I think chile had shermans untill 2002 at which point those tanks had seen over 57 years of service which is just absolutely insane.
Combat WALL-E oh dang, Chile had Shermans into the 2000s?! That’s nuts!
@@josiahricafrente585 I do remember someone saying somewhere once to "know your enemy". Why spend the money on a more advanced tank when the enemy can't even hurt a Sherman?
Justin Noker this is true
You may be very well correct. The ammount of vehicles we used was greatly trumped by the number of units shipped to most countries.
I don't know much about tanks or engines, but I know that that's an excellent sound.
It’s a plane engine if I’m not correct, they had so many they out most on them in many Sherman’s
The smoke is from the oil collecting in the bottom cylinders of the engine that is why the tank crew would hand crank it to cycle the oil back into the system before cold starting it.
Hey Brian, is the radial lying flat? Or is it sitting upright in there somewhere?
@@CS-fb3ss In this application it is mounted vertically behind the turret with a prop shaft transferring the power to the transaxle in the front of the tank.
@@brianisaacs5457 Amazing there's space for it in there. Cheers for the info.
How do you hand crank one of these without a prop ?
@@chriscat85 There is a removable hand crank that clips to the rear of tank and inserts into a hole that is in line with the snout of the radial engine.
That is ragged bad-assery! Wouldn’t mind driving one of those!
I love this sound, so incredibly cool. Thank you for sharing. 🤩
Comes with a built in smoke screen
That is awesome,sneaking up wasn’t an option
Smokes less then my old Honda :) Sweet engine sound :)
Sounds like my 5.2L magnum V8 in the morning
Smokes almost as much as a Honda B-series engine!!
Nothing that VW could get through an emissions test eh.......👌
When a tank tries to become a plane...
Typical radial engine always smoking on start up