Thanks to Jusuchin for this one.
Hello everyone,
some of you probably know and follow the video series and the site, called “Forgotten Weapons”. Its owner mostly deals with small arms, machineguns and generally exotic infantry weaponry, which makes the show kinda beyond the scope of FTR, but this time, he had a look at the 37mm M6 GMC, which was basically an early stopgap tank destroyer, introduced by the Americans in 1942. It was mostly used in the early fighting in Africa and in limited numbers also in the Pacific.
The 37mm gun M3 was pretty much outdated by the time the vehicle got introduced, it was not very well liked and by 1943, this ad-hoc tank destroyer was completely obsolete. Of cca 5000 M6 GMC’s made, some were sold to the French, some left on Philippines, the rest was dismantled and the the trucks and guns got repurposed. You can read more about it here.
Pretty cool video…they actually fired the gun too, which is surprising (too bad they didn’t show what it was hitting).
They were shooting tomatos.
Also, to cut off the questions, this along with the other towed AT guns they featured in the past few videos, had their extraction mechanisms deactivated so they can save the brass. Hard to get actual unfired ammo for a piece of history that normally gives the BATFE conniptions, so I assume they always reload the shells.
This is cool.
I saw 37mm on Doge… To much internet for me. PEACE OUT.
*disapears*
Very TD. Much truck. Wow!
Already subscribed and seen it. Love that channel.
http://youtu.be/T7fhBm1ouSU
Check this one.. it’s the PAK-40.. and all i can say is wow.. what a blast..
“This was capable of taking out a Panther I or a Panther II without too much trouble. If you hit it in the right place, you could take out a Panther III and if you ran into a Panther IV you’re probably screwed.”
Didn’t know Panther II was used in combat, or that a Panther III and IV existed ;)
Apologies on bursting your bubble but he said ‘panzer.’
Still funny.