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I'm not buying any of it!! Looks like 100% staged to me. There is no way that a "Sherman Tank" like that 59 is going to crumble like that by being hit by that new Chevy.. I see lots of accidents in my job and this is just not going to happen!! Somebody "made up" this video....

Rich

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And by the way, the M4 Sherman tank wasn't such a great design for its day. It was known by those that crewed them, as "The Ronson" after the famous Ronson cigarette lighter who's advertising motto was "Lights the first time, every time." That was because the ammunition was stored in the hull section right up against the thin vertical slab-sided armor, right underneath the giant white star painted on the side of the hull, which made for a great aiming point. One hit and they blew up, killing the entire crew. Compare that to 50 years later, and the M1 Abrams which was designed for crew survivability with its extremely sloped active armor that deflects and destroys incoming rounds.

Fifty years of "crew survivability" design refinement makes a whole lot of difference in both tanks and cars.

-Cliff Calvin