I know something way uglier and way weirder. It’s name literally translates to Thing or Creature. You know him well, we all love him. Here we go. That’s right it’s the M50 Ontos. 6 105mm Recoilless guns on a cheese wedge chassis being manned by two of uncle Sams most courageous marines.
Here's a fun fact, the Stridsvagn 74 was nicked named "Sanslös" or senseless by her crews, due to the fact of how violently it would rock while firing at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions.
The strv 74 is an amazing turreted tank destroyer. It amazing firepower for a medium tank. It also gets scouting like other light tanks, but that also means it shares it's weak armor with them. Sadly like most heavy tanks in its class, it's very slow.
I think it classed light tank because they changed the measuring. M26 Pershing was a heavy tank too, before they change to medium tank. Strv 74 shares hull with old medium tanks. It was medium tank, but in it's small in its era
The reason you saw the airplane under the map at 2:30 was because the Tiger player respawned in one. The game always spawns the new vehicle at the players last instance point, then teleports them to the correct spawn.
I've been having fun playing the Char 25t, it's really low to the ground and is hard for people to notice. Plus its gun is pretty good and fast, so I recommend it!
Gaijins shell deformation physics are both a beauty and a curse in both war thunder and enlisted, that tiger pen at 1:31 is similar to me trying to kill a puma with an m5a1 in enlisted where if you fire through the upper front into the driver the solid shot deform into a curl and while still pens the armor, the driver absorbs the entire shell lol
They tried adding rockets to the strv 74. In order to increase the ability to combat armor at long range, an assembly with 3 pcs Rb 52 was tried.Further changes were introduced, as the weight increased by approx. 4 tons, among other things the engine power was increased by introducing an injection system instead of a carburettor, there would also be better fuel economy with injection. Other changes included wider bands, double periscopes in the driver's hatch and lots of detail changes for eg ammunition storage, other radio stations etc.
IIRC Swedish aphe is correctly modeled, which means it only has a cone shaped post pen instead of the spherical ones every other nation has. It's probably the reason some of those shots didn't oneshot
Spookston please have a sound mod commissioned that plays fart with extra reverb whenever a turret flies out on an ammo kill, it’s gotta be programmable
Yeah specially when the german high pen guns are in your team. Getting 10 kills or more with it is pretty easy. And the gun is not bad at all, can pen pretty much anything and the damage is fine since you face a lot of small tanks
3:24 Spookston: I don’t think it don’t it matters, for survivable” Me having flashbacks about how a single Strv 74 manage to eat the 120mm Obus De Rupture frontally from my AMX-50 Surbaissé
The Strv 74 was a cheap way to add a light tank beside the Centurion in the Swedish army after WW2. Basicly it's the Strv m/42 with a new turret given a Bofors 75 mm AA-gun. The gun is so big to the tiny tank, that it had to be balanced with clock type springs in the back. With the new turret the tank was 3.3 meter high, compared to 2.58 meter at the Strv m/42. There was two versions of Strv 74; H with double hydraulic transmissions from Atlas diesel and V with a single mecanic Volvo transmission. Strv 74V served from 1957 to 1981 and Strv 74H to 1984. However, the tank was in it's original task replaced with the Strv 103 from the late 60's.
It looks like the Swedes took an M48 Patton and then did that thing in MsPaint where you scale the picture down and then scale it back up again to make it super pixelated
i have a theory on the ammo rack kills coming up as suicides When gaijin redid the kill feed to recognize not just ammo types, but weapon types (different icons for machine guns vs cannons, and no tank MG kills are properly recognized) it broke the game's ability to process double kills from things like an ammo rack, which doesnt have its own kill label, and the game doesnt know what to attribute the death to ammo-wise gaijin probably didnt even think double kills were still possible because of volumetric and HE nerfs.
This was a WWII Swedish tank that had a much smaller turret with a short 75 on it. After the war, the Swedes looked around and realized their tank was outclassed, so they designed a larger upgunned turret for it. Lo and behold you have the STRV 74. The turret's too big for the tank and it's clumsy as hell, but the Swedes figured they'd be fighting defense, and the thing didn't need to be a world beater. That accounts for the slow speed, bad mobility, and the incredible depression.
As weird as the Strv 74 looks in-game, it doesn't look as bad in person, I went to see one a year or two ago. It actually looks like a real tank in person!
I recommend playing the SU-100Y it’s basically a unturreted FV4005 that. Can one it anything it encounters with its naval cannon, it’s also surprisingly fast for its size.
this was my main for the longest time when it came out ... its just a vibe you get from the damn thing ... hell put some dopy eyes on it and a mouth ... and get ready to laugh everytime you spawn in
because your are playing so much Swedish tanks, i think you will enjoy the Swedish light tank, ikv 91 it goes 40 mph top with lazer range finder and heatfs at 7.3. the only down side i can think of is its carboard armor I have lots of fun playing it and i think you should try it out
most of the ,WW2 and 1950's swedish tanks are based on the same chassis, the lago 1's chassis which is itself an upgraded version of the Czech LT vz. 38 also known as Panzerkampfwagen 38(t),
Not gonna lie, when I first got this tank I was thinking I could bounce some shells with the extreme sloping and angle but nope 20mm on the turret and a max of like 38 affective armor
You know, sometimes it makes me cry after realization of 400 mm armor piercing heat round alongside with small br of 4.0 on ikv 103 ( Swedish tanks are something alien, hope you gonna play it someday spookich)
On certain maps its my goto vehicle with that depression. Unfortunately there is a lot of turret above the level of the gun so your still fairly exposed even hull down behind a hill.
If you want to play a really good Swedish vehicle, try the Strv 104. It is what got me my first nuke, and I have gotten 6 nukes in that tank alone. Good ERA, a powerful round, armor that’s pretty good in downtiers, and it’s just a very well rounded vehicle overall, and one of my favorites. Even in full uptiers, which it rarely gets, it can still go head to head with the modern vehicles, it’s just not as reactive as other NATO tanks so you have to be more aware.
Play the M2A2 it's such a funky little light tank. It only has a 50cal, but it is just so fast. It is really a great tank and I think you should play it.
