Duplex Drive (DD) swimming Sherman tank.

[vipers]

 
DD tank was used on the D-day landings.
Armor 62 mm
Primary
armament High Velocity 75 mm M3 L/40 gun
90 rounds
 
Secondary
armament .50 cal Browning M2HB machine gun (300 rounds),
2 × .30-06 Browning M1919A4 machine guns (4,750 rounds)
Engine Continental R975 C1 gasoline
400 hp (298 kW) gross at 2,400 rpm
350 hp (253 kW) net at 2,400 rpm
Power/weight 14 hp/tonne
Suspension Vertical Volute Spring Suspension (VVSS)
Operational
range 120 miles at 175 US ga (193 km at 660 l; 80 octane)
Speed 38.5 km/h (25 mph)

[AWwrgwy]

The thread that wished for this last week


wrongway

[Rino]

     I have difficulty imagining a more vulnerable target while in the water. 

[Banshee7]

LVT?

[frank3]

Swimming tanks belong in a swimming team, not in our game 

[Crash Orange]

     I have difficulty imagining a more vulnerable target while in the water. 

The trouble with the DD Sherman for this game is one, more DD Shermans were swamped by surf than lost to enemy fire while in the water, and I doubt that could be modeled without major changes to the game engine, and two, they weren't very vulnerable historically because they presented a very low target profile and were difficult to identify from the shore, and by 1944 the Allies weren't trying to mount amphib assaults without air superiority the way we routinely do in AH. It would be putting DD Sherman in a situation that would never have been even remotely contemplated by its designers or by wartime commanders. (We do that with C-47s too, but the fighter opposition is balanced by the lack of wind, navigation errors, etc., and by the ease of suppressing AAA in the game compared to historically.)

[E25280]

The trouble with the DD Sherman for this game is one, more DD Shermans were swamped by surf than lost to enemy fire while in the water,

We have no chop in this game, so this is irrelevant.