This Rat Tank Has Too Many Cannons (feat. @OddBawZ)

The American M50 Ontos is a very strange light tank with six recoilless cannons strapped to it. It was based on a utility vehicle, giving it a sort of pyramid shape. It was well-liked during its service life and it's a great vehicle in War Thunder, assuming you can get used to how the cannons are aimed. You do get some typical Gaijin moments with the HEAT rounds but it's overall a very fun vehicle.

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Songs used (in order from first to last):
Command and Conquer: Generals - Makin' A Sweep, Fight For Peace, In The Field, Search And Destroy, Comanche Down
Halo 3: ODST - Rain (Deference for Darkness)

Sound mods:
Epic Thunder (Pre-release)

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This Rat Tank Has Too Many Cannons (feat. @OddBawZ )

[chaprandom]

It appears that you are firing all of the barrels at once because each barrel has a spotting .50 cal attached to them and it is bound to the fire button independently from the M1919 in the centre. You can choose the spotting guns under the weapons selector in the Y menu.

[pixelatedxenon]

"He's disabled"
"You can't assume that just because he's a German main Spookston cmon now"
fucking gold

[ToastedWaffles_]

What's happening is above each recoilless rifle is a special .50 that was designed to be used with the 106mm rifles. They have the same ballistic trajectory, they are used for aimming the guns.
Ian McCollum has a video on one of them on his channel over at Forgotten Weapons. Pretty cool actually.

[OddBawZ]

I know we only had 3 games but my throat and cheeks are still sore from laughing and smiling! 😂

[MyWaifuNow]

I love how all 6 barrels get destroyed when one gets taken out, true gaijin engineering

[NessaGuitarFI]

i love the chemistry you two have while playing wt, peak content u should play with him more often

[cheeselemon]

Spookston I think you should do a gameplay video on the cm11, it’s truly a hidden Jem, it has the m1 abrams firing system, and an m48 turret mounted on a m60 body. This gives it a faster reload than the m60, it also makes up for most of the armor loss on the m48 turret by suiting it up in ERA

[-fu]

Fun fact about the M50 Ontos is that you had the ability to fire every gun at once which was requested by the USMC due to them wanting to use it as modern siege equipment for whatever they desired or to really go get at enemy tanks.

[YoBoyNeptune]

Pro tip: you can download a custom sight that tells you where each individual gun will hit at range and the order they fire in. Makes aiming a lot easier. I also bind the spotting rifles to a separate button

[atomicstarlord]

The guns firing at the same time are actually the machine guns used for range finding, there is a gun above each gun

[novat]

Fun fact, the gun is actually 105mm. But they deliberately wrote 106mm on the barrels and shells in order to reduce the likelihood that someone would put a 105mm round intended for a closed breech.

[mattthekiller]

0:47 i always picture in my mind, whenever a sturmtiger ammo reserve gets destroyed, half of the map getting instantly cancelled by the ensuing explosion

[some_Russian_dude]

Ah, every time I see the ontos it reminds me of an old Vietnam vet named Charles who I always talked with at the bar. He was an ontos driver which was really awesome. He passed from brain cancer a few years ago, unfortunately. He was also the only vet from that war I knew who actually volunteered for the war and was there in the first years that started.

[BobFisher.]

My two fav War Thunder YouTubers playing together is always great watch

[tranminhnguyen]

"The question is who wouldn't want you."

Odd has a PhD in quantum rizzics.

[FarmerDrew]

Army didn't like Ontos but Marines did. It comes down to tactics, where the Marine is happy to storm an urban AO, the Army soldier prefers artillery and mortar to clear the same AO

[MrSquigglies]

This is one of those tanks that really benefits from getting the custom site off of the War, thunder forums or whatever it's called where it shows you the trajectory of each barrel at all of the ranges. So when you get that you can snipe super effectively and you just become a terror

[senorsenpai]

I drew an armored vehicle concept in 3rd grade that was the same as the m50. I couldn't believe my eyes when the tank I drew in 3rd grade popped up in tier V.

[railfan_]

The ontos is such a hidden gem in the tank-weirdo community. Love that little tank.

[Weenerneenerchickendinner]

Would be kinda cool to see a “Spookston’s rat-off”. A tournament of the rattiest tanks in warthunder. To find out what is the rat king.