yea, early israel ground has alot more to offer than air.
i don’t understand ,the put a 20mm and remove the main gun (leaving a mock up) ?
The Meir was slightly upgraded and brought up to functioning order using scrapyard parts, except for the 75mm cannon for which a replacement could not be located at the time. Instead, the faulty breach was removed and a 20mm Hispano-Suiza HS.804 L/70 autocannon was placed inside the 75mm gun barrel.
it could be so goofy, imagine you rush a sherman as a light tank and it suddenly shreds you apart with an autocannon that is hidden inside the fake barrel
lol its perfect , was it the one of two that was delivered in the start of Israel independence? also what ammo did it use?
full lore:
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The M4a2 Meir was the first Israeli Sherman to ever see services. bought from a bride to the British soldiers, this tank was not what it looked like in the photo. the tank wasn’t always armed with a 75mm even if it looked just like any other Sherman.
the tank was in the British services during WW2 but in 1947 it was stored in Haifa waiting to either be transported to the UK or be destroyed as the British were withdrawing from Palestine. the way the tank was to be destroyed was simple, they brought it to a mountain and just threw it down a cliff where it would be too damaged to be repaired. but this is not what happened with this M4a2 (called Sherman III in the UK). The Haganah militia who later became the IDF bribed the British personnel who were ordered to destroy the tank for £2,000 and had the tank in their service. only it was just an empty shell, the tank was not in working condition at all. the gun was removed, the sighting equipment missing, the engine was not working and even the track was missing. still, the tank was not lost. the Haganah transported the tank to Tel Aviv where the British had set up a repair faculty for the armor vehicles and left it with most of the needed equipment. but the part was not found there. it was just scavenged here and there and it took a lot of effort to just get the engine running. the track was found buried in the sand and was probably the original track for this tank (as the British who sold it didn’t want them to have a tank) but there was a major part that was missing, the tank still had no gun.
the tank was used for a while without a gun for training purposes but the need for a gun was clear otherwise the tank was just a large and heavily protected armored personal carrier who couldn’t care much about people. the solution was to fit a 20mm Hispano gun from the gunnery training field. the 20mm auto-cannon was fitted inside the 75mm tube which made the modification almost invisible. this tank was renamed “Meir” after the girlfriend of one of the crewmembers.
this tank saw services in 1948 during the Israeli-Arab war which led to the Israeli independence. it was used along with Cromwell who was also obtained by the bride and the help of a defective British soldier. still without the proper gun at that time. it was damaged in the battle of El Arish in 1948 where it was sabotaged so that the enemy did not take it. the first and probably most interesting Sherman that the IDF ever had was them lost.
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it will be difficult to balance but to unique to not get added
would be an amazing event / squadron / premium yea
Greek Cromwell better cough cough
check this
The Cromwell Mk.IV Hybrid was an Israeli medium tank utilized during the middle stages of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. This vehicle combined the Cromwell Mk.IV chassis with a Mk.III turret , both proven designs from World War II, valued for their balance of armor and mobility.
Greece didn’t have Cromwell we had Centaur I my mistake ( at least we put a 50cal on top of it)
is that the Sherman with the 20mm or a random one?
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absolute geniuses of our time
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might be, not sure
i can confirm it with someone if you are interested
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nahh i just read in the history that it was use with the Cromwell and so i though it might be it
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" The Cromwell hybrids became central to the operations of the 8th Armoured Brigade, which also included M4 Sherman tanks salvaged from Italian scrapyards and restored to operational status in 1948. These tanks actively participated in combat during the Arab-Israeli War and are now preserved at the Latrun Museum after been refitted wiht a dummy 17-pounder gun."
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I remember seeing this beast flying over me in algeria. A day i can never forget.
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its been like… 5 months or more without sound mods… its genuinely heaven having RCSM back i love this