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Originally Posted by dave lukins
Anothe flaw with the M48 was the tendency of the Hydrolic system to leak and burst into flames. This fault caused many casualties and was a major factor in Tank losses
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Are you sure? Israel was pretty good in fixing defects in American material but in 73 they got blind sided by the M60's flammable hydraulics. America and israel both went Do'h! Seems if the lessons of the Indo-pak war 8 years earleir had been known this wouldn't have happened.
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This is something(Among many other things )that I did not know about the Shermans on the Indian side of the war,evens things out a bit if not giving the advantage to the Indian Shermans
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I didn't know it either until I dug into the subject. India may actually have had 3 gun types on their Shermans 75/L34 (Sherman IV and V), 76mm Sherman (IVA and VA), and 75/L70 (not known if a direct M50 clone or indigenous development but India did have the AMX-13). Prior to 1965 2 regiments of Shermans were upgunned with the French gun. India almost certainly upgunned the 75/L34 equipped Shermans so I do not know if any of these saw combat with the L34.
I have now found at least 3 nations that attmepted to upgun the Sherman with the 75/L70. India and israel refitted the guns onto exosting turrets, while Egypt used the AMX-13's FL14 turret on a Sherman hull.