American tank M4A3E8 SHERMAN Easy Eight COBI 2533 - World War II

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You know that:

• The Easy Eight version had a "wet" ammunition storage behind the water baffle compared to previous versions ?
• With each successive version of the Sherman, the weight of the tank increased, so the chassis had to be redesigned?
• In total, 49,234 Shermans were produced in various versions, of which about 254 were of the Easy Eight type?
• Only the Soviet Union produced more tanks and that was the T-34 model ?
• Sherman tanks were also in the armament of the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade, consisting of young men who managed to escape the occupation ?
• This armoured brigade relieved the British group at the siege of the fortified port of Dunkirk in August/September 1944 ?
• This tank liberated Pilsen?
• The famous FURY from the movie Iron Fist was the M4A2E8 ?

Technical parameters:

• length 6,274m (without gun), width 2,997m, height 2,972m
• weight 35 300 kg
• frontal armour thickness up to 90 mm
• propulsion Ford GAA V8 petrol engine with 518 hp
• 5 forward + 1 reverse speed
• maximum speed 40 km/h
• range 160 km
• wading distance 1.07 m
• main weapon L/55 M1A12 17 cannon 76 mm calibre
• number of rounds 71
• secondary weapon Browning M2HB machine gun 12.7mm calibre (600 rounds) + M1919A4 machine gun 7.62mm calibre (6250 rounds)
• turret rotation speed of 360° is 15 s

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