The Insanely Powerful US Tank was a Danger to Itself
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- A sleek, agile tank slowly emerged from the Vietnamese countryside. As the blazing sun cast shadows across the dense canopy, the 16-ton American M551 Sheridan appeared.
Equipped with a powerful 152-millimeter main gun capable of launching MGM-51 Shillelagh anti-tank missiles and impressive maneuverability, the Sheridan made its way across the rugged terrain, ready to strike fear into the heart of the Communist foe.
With unmatched precision and power, the Sheridans opened fire against approaching North Vietnamese forces. The American tankers held their ground with lethal accuracy despite being outnumbered.
The 152-millimeter guns were so powerful they lifted the front ends of the tanks a foot and a half with every shot. Bewildered by this sight, the enemy spotters notified their commanders and turned tail without questions.
If a 16-ton beast could be pushed back with such violence, its rounds sure packed a punch. - Věda a technologie
There was like what? 2 dozen different tanks in this video? 😂
it can be difficult to get media that is either freely available under license for public use.
Did you just respond to your self?
@@gingerninja6612 No?
You know that is what he does well- hey what the hell
We were lucky this time that we didn’t see the Tirpitz while he was talking about a Tiger😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just to clarify, the tanks that are shown around the 1 minute mark are British tanks deployed during WW1. I believe that the one of the photos shows a captured example and it's German crew. The first deployment of tanks during WW1 took place on 15 September 1916. The US didn't join WW1 until 4 April 1917. The US army had no tanks of their own, instead they used the French Renault FT light tank. Details can be found on the Imperial War Museum website.
I served on a Sheridan with the 3/7 Cav. 73 to 77 Schweinfurt Germany.
Sorry
Many of those pictures in Vietnam are with M48 tanks. I liked my M-60A1 a lot. Not much to dislike about it. The 105 mm was bad ass. Most people disliked the Sheridan.
I imagine the crews lived the M60, it had a big enough turret to have a party inside.
Back in 1980, after US army basic training, further AIT was at Aberdeen in Maryland. I was trained as a tank turret repair mechanic (45Kilo) for the M-60A3, M-60A2, M-551, M-901 ITV.
After AIT, I was posted at Fort Hood, Texas (2nd Armor). I never worked on a M-551 as none of the battalion's that our company supported were equipped with this light reconnaissance tank, nor any of the tank battalion's between 2nd Armor and 1st Cav. Back then I believe the only battalions of M-551 were at Fort Ord, California, and used in desert training as a mock Soviet T-62.
My platoon sergeant while at Fort Hood shown me a picture of a M-551 in Germany that caught fire, and the aluminum tank hull softened from the interior fire, and the turret sunk into the hull about halfway.
I did get to work on the last battalion of the cursed M-60A2 Starship (Starsh*t, Fartship, POS). Worked repairing only one with a faulty stabilization unit for the main gun. Turned it on while sitting next to it in the gunner's position, and the 1 ton breach about 18 inches away from my head is slamming up and down two or three times before I could turn it off. Never saw one fire at a gunnery. Six months after I was posted at Fort Hood, that battalion traded the A2 for new A3. The battalion was either 2-66, or 3-66. I believe these battalions have been deactivated as the 2nd Armored was deactivated. General Patton's rolling in his grave.
The M-60A2 had problems with the electronics controlling the laser range finder would fail due to the circuit boards of the 1970s era were still mostly discreet electronic components. The large (by current standards) circuit boards were not properly engineered regarding shock absorption when the main gun was fired with the high explosive round, which created a tremendous amount of recoil. This accumulated recoil would make a minute crack in the pathway way on the circuit board, or resistor, capacitor, diode, etc. would break connection from the circuit board, and suddenly the laser rangefinder no longer works.
Correction. Fort Irwin, not Fort Ord.
By the 1980s, the only place you would have found an M551 other than at NTC was at Fort Bragg. The 82nd had one battalion of them (3/73 AR)
Lets be real, Its the Army. Youd say that youd only find an M-551 at fort bragg, but I guarantee you that they were still sprinkled around a touch more than that. Its the US Army, the most organized disorganization of unhealthcare @@jeffreygunn3530
Was there not enough footage of the Sheridan tank?
My first assignment as an officer was, 1st Platoon Leader, C-4/68th Armor 82n Airborne Division. I was school trained at Fort Knox on the M-551 Sheridan. The M-551s that we had were from Fort Riley, Kansas. The battalion was just being organized and we were short of everything. The M-551 was great automotively and running gear. The conventional main gun was a beast and accurate. The Shillelagh missile was junk. The electrical turret was a nightmare. We did swim them every year and they were air droppable, once. I have a picture of my tank that streamered in on the wall in my gun room.
by all accounts the firing rate of the cannon wasn't limited by the crew's "quickness" but by the automated breech mechanism and the multipart ammuntion.
A new low has been set with the film not matching the narrative. Pretty lazy, sloppy, and rushed.
That was a British Saracen APC airdreop!
New here?
@@billpugh58 Look at the film: one of the clips shows a palletised airdrop, but it's not of the tank in question, it's a Saracen APC.
Qas it the "so powerful" gun lifting the tank, or that they used aluminum armor so lacked the mas a ateel tank would have? And why do they have so many barrel lengths? Shooting a missle doaent require an extended barrel for tank 1 but a very short barrel on tank 2. And ahooting rockets doesn't require an accumulator on the barrel.
Looks like the cheapest bidder won on this tank
It's Cadillac, right? So it could be a luxurious tank.
I know 1/5 Cav with the 9th Division was using the Sheridan at Ft Lewis in the early 80s. We had to OPFOR against them several times.
Loved the Tamiya instructions in the video.
Spend 5 years a a TC on a Sheriadan 551A1 and eventually M551A1 (TTS). It worked OK if you knew its shortcomings and how to work around theses plus you needed to have great situational awareness to not loose body parts. M551 was deployed before proper testing. You should stick to the subjects you have a clue and can do vehicle ID successfully.
At 5 minutes 51 seconds a solution was found called the CBSS. You can follow up and find what this did to solve these issues with embers in the gun tube and the non-issue you mentioned here.
I saw us tank that was a danger to itself and i automatically knew it was the Sheridan before i even opened the video
It should be noted that when the Sheridan was used at Ft. Irwin, they were fitted with mock body panels so that they mimicked the silhouette of various Soviet Armored Vehicles. It was quite effective. For a tank, it was very mobile in the desert environment of Ft. Irwin. It's only serious flaw as a Light Tank was it's main weapon.
bad main gun, weak anti-mine armor, bad stored ammo protection, ineffective against other tanks...
The referees at Irwin also used them in their regular undressed form to run around telling tanks and other potential targets they'd been killed by artillery or air strikes.
I did two trips to NTC, one in October of 84 and the other one in February of 85, just about the time we were getting all the sand out of everything from our first trip out there we had to turn around and go back.
Going on REFORGER was much better.
@@dukecraig2402, Yeah, we busted a controller trying to tag us with a kill gun one night when I was there. Turns out the controller guns don't shoot a quick pulse of light the way the other lasers do, and it's visible as a search light on the driver's night vision scope. I could see the beam waving around, and when it got near us we were getting "near miss" beeps from the MILES gear. TC got on the horn to our First, and a couple minutes later the controller boogied out of there. Apparently, he didn't know exactly where we were and was trying to tag us out when there were no OPFOR around.
Surely the extent of the recoil is less due to a powerful gun and more to do with the Sheridan being made of Aluminium & weighing 15 tons.
The M551 never had the fancy missiles in Vietnam combat. They were stuck with a caseless HE shell that was electrically primed. The caseless ammo was a bad fire hazard from what I understand. Interesting. The French colonial forces took AMX 13 light tanks and placed turrets and 75 mm guns from M24 Chaffee tanks on them as the AMX 13 was poorly equipped as built for convoy escort / infantry support use. As soon as the Algerian Colonial War ended the turrets were swapped out again. Interesting how no peacetime plan survives the reality of war. . .
The airdrop sequence was actually a British Saracen Armoured Car.
A tank talored for amphibous duty would float and have a way to manuver in water. A tank that can't do either is not TAILORED for amphibous use. That is like saying they designed a boat specifically for dessert use. Or a plane for underwater use.
What does a British FV603 Alvis Saracen six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier have to do with the air transportability of the M551?
Did it have an anti-pers, or canister type round?
it was one of the rare guns capable of utilizing multiple weapons and devices, but the logistics stuck to HE, AP, and ATGM. Despite available shells capable of Airburst, FLAK, and APFSDS.
The problem was the propellant and shell being loaded separately, along with the propellant residue caking the gun's breech risking powder buildup and catastrophic ammo detonation.
Yep, it indeed used cannister rounds
I got the chance to crew a Sheridan a few times as OPFOR with 11ACR, until they were finally put to rest. Not the best tank I've driven, but definitely not the worst....by a long shot! Abrams tho....that sweet sweet Abrams
Good video 😮😮
Why are most of the pix and vids of other vehicles other than Sherians. Some you show are even wheeled.
There was like 4 scenes with actual Sheridan in it
got to fire one at ft bragg in 1981 during a training session big ass gun
With that armament I guess the road wheel bearings failed on a regular basis! The maintenance shots seem to involve this area.
I was OPFOR at Fort Irwin, California 1995-1996. Drove the Sheridan there. It was fun little tank to drive. Being stationed at NTC wasn’t that as fun as the tank.
Going there sucked to, my unit went twice when I was in it, the first time in Oct of 84 and the second time in February of 85, just about the time we got the sand out of everything from the first trip it was time to go back.
I served in all crew positions on a Sheridan in the 1970’s; mostly as the gunner. The main gun had a wicked recoil, kind of like getting punched in the head.
Do the light tanks, turn into IFVs... tune in next time
DANG GIMME MY .02 BACK GODDAMNIT 😂😂😂
I unsubscribed to this all his channels some time ago but watch one now and again. It’s nice to see I haven’t missed anything. Still too many words and unrelated pictures mixed into the word salad. What does a rusty rifled bore have to do with breech problems?
B roll of the HSTVL. Why??
Saw a Sheridan go off into the woods at Sicily DZ on Fort Bragg after a failed Lapse. C-130 dropped one out and the chute failed to deploy. It tore through the woods knocking over trees like they were matchsticks.
I'm using my wife's tablet. I served on a 551 with B/1/2 ACR in 74-75. I'm going to quote Moriarty from Kelly's Hero's, "It's a piece of junk!".
Tank upside-down. Well get in guys
Talk is great, video is half M60's and WWII Grants or Sherman's. Showing random tanks don't help the story.
It's a bit annoying and confusing to have different tanks shown while giving the story about the Sheridan.
M-48s not M-60s. I don't recall many M-60s in the video, but a lot of M-48s.
2;09 looks like a British Sarasin APC
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Huh, didn't realize we used the Sheridan for that long.
The Sheridan was an inspiration for the British Scimiter family, though.
OTAN crowd out here wishing that we held onto more old equipment.
2:08, that’s a British Humber APC
So powerfull light that in every shoot your aiming device was fucked up and also crews fucking hate that shit cuz IF its nôt a lot of space inside but most importantly for lack of armor cuz when rpg hits your armor just melted Like a really fucking mutch, its nôt great i 😂a😂😂😂.
Literally everyone knows the Sherman was the most powerful and most feared tank of the war.
Going on about the initial use of light tanks by the U.S. Army but shows pictures of British Mk.IV HEAVY tanks, discusses the M551 Sheridan whilst showing video clips of M48’s in Vietnam, this content creator seems to have a habit of including pictures and video clips of vehicles that have nothing to do with the subject being discussed.
The book Blackhorse Rider is worth reading.
SOUNDs "To Me?" like the Special Part of this Tank is Not the "TANK!" but the GUN, AMMO, and System!
"Caseless Tank AMMO! and JATO Assisted! That's a SHOW! or MORE of a SERIES of Shows?
Bollocks, retention the transmission after 3 rounds, the concept was good but this wasn’t a great afv platform, to light to cope with main armament of that size. Look at the platform rock (one of the consequences of fire)
Video showed wrong tanks like many more have said.
hey man. your video doesnt match whats being talked about at all. several vehicles are shown that are not the walker bulldog. there is dozens of videos produced containing the tank. i feel like this video was rushed and it comes off as sloppy. at least presentation wise.
Your sniffing glue
According to the movie A Woman Called Golda, the Americans offered the Sheridan to the Israelis. Golda said no, and wanted the M60. But I can't find any corroboration on google for this.
This has to be the worst Dark Tech video ever
Please Learn How too Edit Or ASK for Help!!! You are Showing Random Tanks While talking about Other Tanks or Talking about the Sheridan and Showing pictures of Sherman's and m48.
Also the walker Bulldog did see activity till the end of the Korean conflict.
The Cheridon was a flop! I would have been pist being put in one. They didn't spend enough time TESTING it the soldiers had to test it on the field of battle!! Aluminum armor! Come on!
People nit pick over the videos. How much video do you think there is. Just listen and enjoy/learn.
Orthophonist is required.
WRONG>>>>>THE SHERIDAN WAS NOT A TANK!!!!!! THE SHERIDAN WAS A AIRBORNE ASSAULT ARMORED RECONISSANCE VEHICLE (AAARV). I was a 11D10R8 on a Sheridan with the 2nd Armored Calvary Regiment in Germany in the 1970"s. The Sheridan was phased out, we received M60A1 Rise Passive Tanks which was a Real Tank.
I like the info in your videos, however when you keep adding pictures of tanks other then the one your topic is on makes you look foolish.
There's too much investment in the concept of tanks, we have heavy and light, yet most can be defeated by airplanes helicopters manned positions and ied,s. If the Sheridan was a light tank with a 2 end per min firing rate for a howitzer, the army already has that capability and then some, m109 paladin and m777 for your artillery, why reinvent the wheel? The army needs to be far more mobile and less fixed static positions.
Why can't the military find designers that would relish attacking the problem of a light powerful airborn tank?
This requierment has never been solved.
WE CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON. BUT WE CAN'T...and blah blah like that.🤔🧠🇺🇲
Wait, what??? The Army dropped the weight limit and concentrated on MBTs and put a weight limit of 18 tons? I smell bull💩.
great tank for the Vietnam war.......
I worked black ops in Vietnam 1966-67 and I can't remember seeing a tank. I saw plenty of APCs, Amtracs and a few Octos.
What does it sound like when someone with a LISP, & Drinks a lot of Milk, Speaks?... The Narrator of this Channel. I can't even Focus on the History he's giving w/out having closed captions on.
This video screams "I have no idea what the fuck im talking about, im just gonna spread some urban myths, hearsays and conspiracy theories to make this video interesting and make some quick views"
As is typical of these videos, much of the footage has nothing to do with whatever is being discussed. Utter rubbish. Sherman tanks while discussing the last use of Sheridans. Lazy and incompetent.
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Dam West of money time and Pont now consider all that West of money $$$$$$$$$$$$%.
no connection to PT-76 LIE
Always showing incorrect subjects in his videos. Stop being so lazy. Do the work
all you had to do was copy a nazi tank
Okay man this is the second time I've heard you say this and two of your videos talking about American equipment. Americans don't use 12.7 mm guns. We use 50 fucking caliber. Granite 50 caliber is what 12.7 mm but that's not what it's fucking called. GIs from 100 years ago didn't call it "ma 12.7 fucking millimeter" they called it "ma fucking deuce" cuz it's a M2 Browning 50 caliber machine gun. Not the M3 12.7mm tube of steel made by some nobody it's a gun The only gun has been in service as long as it has been made by one of the most famous fucking firearms inventors of all time and every time you say 12.7 mm, John Moses fucking Browning turns in his goddamn grave. Sorry not sorry.
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EXCELLENT!!! Well said.
Note: my hearing loss was from the M-85. That short barrel 50 Cal is effen LOUD!
Nice drama story, but reality was the North Vietnamese were too much for the US Military who actually started the war using a false accusation.
"based around the PT-76"? What rot!! 3:28
Alpha troop 2/1 Cav,