The Rocket Sherman - T34 Calliope

[@blusofa8814]

0:53 that music is outrageously whimsical

[@ColXnial1328]

*slowly transitions to utter death*

[@blarpnarp]

so thats what a calliope looks like

[@KaedFuyou]

There is one company of heroes pc game if you ever played it

[@danielfritts854]

Yeah like a steam harp

[@shaider1982]

I thought it was mounted on wheels like in the old C&C intro. But I think this is.the steamboat mounted one.

[@kellychuang8373]

Yeah that is really surprising and also who knows what others for JJ to get into since there's many and maybe ones for the AK-47, M2 Browning Machine Gun, DSHK Machine Gun and also there were other parts for the tank as well like a flamethrower variant in which it had a towed fuel tank may check that out as well among many other topics.

[@wrongway1100]

And here I thought it was a bug with like fifty legs

[@smackattack97]

Loved using the Calliope in R.U.S.E.

[@KhanWolf95]

Miss that game

[@smackattack97]

@@KhanWolf95 Same. Wish Ubisoft didn't take it off Steam. Idk why they'd do that

[@weathermanwx9199]

I'm just happy "Calliope" was pronounced correctly.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

It's always risky for me. I was only 80% sure...

[@trouserarmadillo8616]

Agreed. Tired of hearing “Cally-ope.”

[@ThommyofThenn]

​@@trouserarmadillo8616seriously. I'm not even an older person but I know how to pronounce it cause I've heard it in music

[@mbryson2899]

Yes and no... "Kallee-ope" is the proper pronunciation when they're on Great Lakes steamers, look it up. English is a beautiful language, so ductile. "Peruse" once meant to read carefully and thoroughly, and look what happened to "literally" literally in our lifetime. "Regardless" became "irregardless," and (gods help us all) is "irreregardless" among some, just as "flammable" and "inflammable" once became interchangeable.

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@mbryson2899 thanks for the lore info

[@deadlybaconman4467]

the morale affect of the Calliope is really interesting, maybe it didn't have the best accuracy but if I saw 60 rockets coming at me from a M4 Sherman I think I'd be in a surrendering mood darn pretty quick, great vid!

[@johnathan651]

Rocket launchers mounted to armored cars? Yep, that sounds like something we'd come up with. The wildlife here up is no joke.

[@johnathan651]

Seriously, a moose can take out everyone in the car.

[@cableyoutuber]

Finally, a JJ video of my favorite Sherman.

[@ThommyofThenn]

That's great to hear!

[@TallDude73]

Nice callback at the end to the very start... and the usual pun. ;) Calliope always makes me think of the turrets in MechWarrior 4.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

dang I totally forget about MechWarrior that would have been a sweet inclusion.

[@Hybris51129]

So many LRMs...

[@MM22966]

@@Hybris51129At 4km range, that is more like SRM...

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

Can't wait to see Mori T34 Calliope on her next stream.

[@superjesse645]

Guh

[@polymathart]

0:58 Your best edit yet, Johnny. The fade from Calliope to Calliope, the harmony between both the rockets and the instrument.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks so much! I almost abandoned this one, too, as I was struggling to find entertaining clips.

[@kellychuang8373]

Also good on this system and who knows maybe get an in depth perspective on the Katyusha Rocket Launcher or maybe still looking for any Soviet weapons parts RPG-7 and AK-47 still are open and have a cool history among who knows what and many others there's even a flamethrower attachment for tanks as well.

[@anthimatter]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqJust your voice is entertainment enough mate. Your vids are super relaxing to me.

[@RedStarRogue]

I think I only became aware of the Sherman calliope after playing the first company of heroes.

[@ashina2146]

I can't believe this Tank sung the Ending Song for The Suicide Squad Isekai Anime.

[@Taishisama]

The vtuber yes

[@garfieldsmith332]

Currently building a model kit of the Sherman / Calliope. Even in scale the contraption does look out of place on the tank. Nice video and history of the weapon. Tanks a lot.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Happy modeling

[@fortis3686]

Another video topic I would recommend is the Bell P-39 Airacobra Not just because it’s an underrated fighter in ww2 But because among the nations to use it, outside of the US it was used the most by the Soviet Red Air Force.

[@ThommyofThenn]

I realised this for myself a few months ago. I got a coupon for it and was a little disappointed since I thought it was for USA , for which I have no planes unlocked. You can imagine my delight when I saw it was the USSR version. As such, it has helped fill out lineups very ably

[@neilwilson5785]

The composition of this video with the music and humour was very pleasing. Good work!

[@minxythemerciless]

The big problem with multi-barrel rockets is you can fire them all off in a minute but it takes a couple of supply trucks and several hours to reload, in the meantime you've got the weight and bulk of the launcher hindering you

[@arcturus64]

Is this the famous rapping Vtuber people talk about?

[@scarletcrusader5431]

What

[@radjadawamindra697]

And don't forget that the IJN also had a dive bomber called "Suisei" 😂

[@kokutai3331]

@@scarletcrusader5431If you don’t get the joke, he’s talking bout Hololive Mori Calliope

[@scarletcrusader5431]

@@kokutai3331 Yeah no idea what that is

[@kokutai3331]

@@scarletcrusader5431 Google what a Vtuber is, then Google Hololive

[@Erwin_Von_Heidenheim]

Great video nice to see strike witches featured

[@a2rgaming863]

Going to war? There is a Sherman for that.

[@chardaskie]

It definitely would make me glad I was on our side seeing these things in action.

[@eugeniawelch962]

Dozens of exposed rocket tubes get placed on top of your tank. ” laughs and freedom. Ha ha I’m in danger.”

[@fuckoff4705]

in reality imagine being an artilleryman and getting to sit in a tank for protection when you have to fire, pretty sweet gig

[@tommykaung5882]

Man, the tank's name sound very similar to a certain death reaper Vtuber.

[@Kabovman55]

Whats good johnny

[@TheTrooper506]

Need Katyusha rockets? There is a Sherman for that.

[@BensonCaisip]

The fact that it's called T34 caused me a lot of confusion.

[@WamuroRiXi08]

T34 Calliope T34 heavy T-34 THE T-34

[@thomasjoyce7910]

Then the T-72! If the US Army revives the idea, I bet they'll call it the "Armata"

[@mathewkelly9968]

Only that confuses you about US Army designations ? You're doing well

[@nursestoyland]

Which M1 do you want?

[@Hesopod-w3b]

Calliope has gotta be one of my favourite Shermans

[@HandyMan657]

That Sher was a good one Man. Thanks Johnny, catch ya on the next one.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

The Canadian Sherman tanks were pretty effective in sunny Italee and Normandy, Belgium and Holland...their kill rate as well as the Polish and British tankers was pretty damn good...just saying

[@coenisgreat]

Pity you didn't use footage from the Company of Heroes games, the first two have the Calliope as units for the US, band the whizzbang appears in the third game. The first game also features the walking stuka, and its rocket frames on the sides of captured French Hotchkiss light tanks, as well as the nebelwerfer. The second game also has the walking stuka, as well as the panzerwerfer, land-mattress, Sherman tulip, and Katyusha. The third game also has the nebelwerfer. And a couple others I might be forgetting.

[@Lomi311]

Did not know this was named after a ridiculously obnoxious instrument. Not sure which system is harder on the ears

[@anthimatter]

You spelled whimsical incorrectly lol

[@callsigntonks4029]

Damn just missed it but great video johnny :)

[@MM22966]

It's funny when you realize this massive, imposing artillery rocket system has about the same range as a modern heavy ATGM like TOW or Javelin...Which you could hide under a bush.

[@tristanthompson1980]

I think I remember this from Battlefield 1942

[@junkfish2007]

A video clip from RUSE. I loved that game. Played it all the time on the PS3.

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLRIGHT

[@audiencesmember]

I didn't know it was named afer an instrument! Thank you Johnny!

[@crusaderanimation6967]

Fun fact, after the war this tank started carrier as Vtuber.

[@The_whales]

Tank crew: “hey can I get some rockets” Designers: “only a spoonful”

[@ThommyofThenn]

Using this in Battlefield 5 was a good time. But i've casually destroyed/seen so many players getting positively vaporised in WT, i never felt like spending any real money on it! Huge respect to the real tankers who brought their whimsical pipes into battle during WW2.

[@Demolitiondude]

When the Chaplain says I want an organ to the combat engineer.

[@SeanDahle]

My favorite instrument

[@maciejjurkiewicz3176]

It boosts my morale as well

[@iatsd]

Good thing planners came to their senses about using them on/right after D Day - there was more than enough fire support available in the form of the LCRs on the day itself aalong with naval gunfire support which stuck around for over a month afterwards.

[@NickyDusse]

Hope ur league games are going well Johnny.

[@RolfYeager]

Great video :)

[@Godzilla00X]

Babe wake up, look how cool this tank is.

[@inductivegrunt94]

I wonder if this system was ever made for the M26 Pershing. Probably not considering how cumbersome the system is in general and how the war ended soon after both were introduced. But a nice and unique version of a tank with already nice and unique versions of the tank. Just goes to show how versatile the M4 Sherman is.

[@boringkobold7367]

There was a modification for M26 (I think it's the M26) that added 48 M8 rockets onto the side of the turret using the mantlet to control elevation

[@quinnfell3824]

The editing on this video was great! I am often drawn to your channel for its straightforward approach, thankfully abstaining from exciting music and language. The transitions and intergrations present in this video, in my opinion, compliments your style well

[@MyBlueZed]

Just a small point: 0:25 I think it is more correct to say the rockets were fired electrically rather than electronically. ❤️

[@stevencolor3389]

Those things are deadly in Company of Heroes, able to quickly turn German infantry and weapon crews to fertilizer. They played a critical role in one match my friends nicknamed hamburger hill where we caught a large chunk of the enemy army waiting on a hill, we unleashed 1-2 Calliopes, atleast 1 but probably multiple howizers on the top of the hill with a straffing and bombing run on the road down the hill to pin down fleeing units.

[@THB1945]

Aha! I know there will be War Thunder footage ! ! !

[@christosvoskresye]

Rooseveltorgel

[@bigblue6917]

I believe there was also a trailer version of the Calliope. And the Russian version was also called Stalin's Organs. The Rockets used by the British being the same as those used on the likes of the Beaufighter meant that this would give the British tank the same as the broadside of a light cruiser.

[@LukeBunyip]

"Aid, O Calliope, the martial song!" the Roman epic poet Virgil, in the Aeneid (Calliope was the Greek goddess of poetry and eloquence, and was thought to be Homer's muse for the Illiad.)

[@GunnerHeatFire]

Great video Johnny, loved using the calliope in Battle field 5.

[@wiktorberski9272]

Interesting design. Ages ago, I had a1/72 model of this weapon

[@maxwellmueller9384]

I still have nightmares of these from the Tiger mission on Battlefield V.

[@erikasan3299]

Still hoping I'll get that shoutout on the m16...

[@R3TR0J4N]

Being strap with the tanks gun was so genuinely practical

[@shoked99]

Another very interesting and informative video. Thank you.

[@thekhoifish0146]

Piping hot video fresh from the oven

[@FullMetalBaldo]

2:50 R.U.S.E. ❤ What an awesome game it was, i met one of my best friend thanks to that!

[@kenc9236]

See ya on the next steam boat Johnny.

[@ThommyofThenn]

"With his very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground"

[@Schreuganoot]

do you prefer Mannfred Mann or ol' Bruce?

[@myblacklab7]

The top-mounted .50(?) caliber machine gun on the Sherman shown at the end is an add-on to the Sherman as well! The Sherman was either a versatile tank, or a tank that sucked so bad that everyone tried to modify it in order to make it suck less.

[@patriotenfield3276]

Magnificient as Always mate. Also Don't forget about the Soviet Katyusha version made on T-60 , T-70 and T-80 light tank chassis

[@TheTrooper506]

Videos on the M22 Locust, M48 Patton, Soviet K1 & K2 Tanks, & France's Char B1 would be cool.

[@ChubbsterBrown]

I had always heard people used calliope as a negative adjective or an expletive in the past. I always thought it was something synonymous to calamity and not a weird artillery shaped quasi organ.

[@Cyberleader135]

T34, T72, M16 militaries need to be more creative with their numbers

[@lawson8723]

In battlefield 5 and war thunder this thing is a absolute beast!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

The Western Allies' answer to the Katyusha, huh, and one with a cuter name too. Man, a bunch of Strike Witches footage sure won't feel out of place with Girls und Panzer. 0:46: Some... interesting folk would disagree, especially with experience with the Moaning Minnie. 3:18: Partially not unlike a Magella Tank from Mobile Suit Gundam, right? Addendum: No Company of Heroes game footage?

[@Chris-lr2qb]

Sup Johnny?

[@cotabom]

It's criminal that the Sherman Whizbang and Sherman Tulip aren't in War Thunder yet..

[@panthercreek60]

Johnny , you have found your 'muse'

[@tylercamilli2457]

new vid lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fieryjustin]

My favourite USA tank in War thunder mobile

[@ImStillWoody]

Glad to see RUSE being used for Gameplay

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Indeed a dangerous Sherman!

[@EatJam_DontCatch]

Stalins Organs?

[@wyattcarter6755]

Wow, seeing RUSE gameplay really brought me back to my childhood.

[@mansourbellahel-hajj5378]

Man i remember from company of heroes what a weapon of mass destruction this tank is and it is a very good competitor to the nebelwerfer and katyusha rockets.

[@kellychuang8373]

Good video and also speaking of other weapons for a tank there's also a flamethrower variant too and also ones for removing landmines anyway may want to look into that or saw it in a documentary like Weaponology.

[@Daniel4646]

This organ plays a tune I certainly would not stick around for to hear... at the receiving end.

[@pavelcheckov9288]

Make notes, Gaijin!

[@M26E4SuperPershing]

Is there ever going to be a M26 Pershing video ?

[@molanohouse]

There's isn't many films with M26s, I think.

[@cm275]

@@molanohouseJohnny has branched out a little beyond just movie use and does more general history now as well.

[@ShinoCoffee]

What musical instrument do you play? Me : 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒑𝒆

[@WarFoxThunder]

Ayyyy its the worst financial decision ive ever made!

[@hicknopunk]

I would have thought it would have sounded like circus music

[@cia6264]

I always love to use this in Battlefield V and hate it at the same time 😅

[@Willchannel90]

It made soldiers going Team Fortress style.

[@anthimatter]

Suddenly, I want to play Red Alert.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Ive always like this tank since i bought a toy model of one in the 70s 😊 By no means the most effective rocket launcher of ww2 but way better than the German half track ones.

[@MM22966]

I always wondered how they were exactly employed tactically. I COULD see a section or two of these pulled up outside a German town, dropping an immediate hellstorm of rocket fire on it just before the armored infantry and tanks tried to storm it, then the Calliopes joining in with main gun fire support.

[@Anraksa]

no CoH clips?

[@pilotmanpaul]

AND THE CALLIOPE FELL TO THE GROUND

[@pjthehomelessmage]

What about the whiz bang?

[@historyisawesome6399]

Ok why are all of them named after soviet tanks? Like t-34 ok ok but T-72!!!?

[@nobodyherepal3292]

In the US military, “T” is the initial given to prototypes vehicles during WW2. It stood for “trial” I believe. Examples: the T-27 heavy tank (a even bigger Pershing) prototype, the T-29 super heavy prototype (aka, “the doom tortoise”), the T-15 assault tank prototype (a modified Sherman with extra thick armor)ect.

[@Stella-gm7bo]

Freedom katyusha

[@TanksRcool]

Music to my ears

[@brennanleadbetter9708]

Music to my ears 🎶

[@SgtPrimendra]

So this is actually just armored katyusha