WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

Interesting...

Perhaps one of our esteemed techno geeks could give the particulars but it seemed that the sandbags wouldn't detonate the weapon early enough or at all and the propellant would push the warhead through the sandbags (which wherent usually fashioned on all that tightly) and let it detonate on the armor

the russians lashed mattresses to the sides and fronts of their tanks in their version of trying to improvise spaced armor

the mattress springs did detonate the weapons and in effect added 20 or so centimeters to the amount the rocket would have to pierce which reduced crew casualties (although the rocket's flame generally annealed the hardness of the frontal armor, requiring either a patch or leaving the tank to be picked for parts, but at least the crews had a higher chance of not beinged turned into Jell-o
 
Didnt the E8 version of the Sherman do rather well against the T34/85 in Korea and the early Arab Israeli wars.

You want to compare the crew training of the United States (Korea) and Israel vs N. Korea and the Egyptians/Syrians?


Although the Soviets periodically sent instructors along with their military hardware... their record of teaching or improving the function of the troops of their client states can't be rated as particularly high. Tactics, good officer conduct, and doctrine just didn't absorb so easily.
 
Although the Soviets periodically sent instructors along with their military hardware... their record of teaching or improving the function of the troops of their client states can't be rated as particularly high. Tactics, good officer conduct, and doctrine just didn't absorb so easily.

Stuff like that just seems hard as hell to teach in a way that'll stick if it goes counter to local culture. The Iraqi and Afghani army and police still suck afaik.
 
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