America's First Railgun Tank

Many believe that railguns are what future tanks / armored fighting vehicles will be armed with. The concept of an electric gun seems very futuristic, but it actually goes back to World War I. During World War II, some nations began to look into it a bit further. Germany wanted to use railguns as anti-aircraft batteries, but the US Army had something different in mind. They wanted to mount it on the famous M4 Sherman. Eventually they had to settle for a coilgun, which is considerably less cool (this video is an April Fool's joke, please do not take any of this seriously).

Sources:
Me (It came to me in a dream)
Final Report of Test of One Medium Tank, M4A1 with 75-mm Magnetic Gun T82
The Rail Gun - Muad Al Khaldi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Department of Electrical Engineering)
The Practical Applications of Railguns on Tanks by Jotchua Bimbini

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[Spookston]

Just in case it wasn't painfully obvious, this is an April Fool's joke. Don't take any of this seriously.

[risingsun]

Major Seymour Asses, a true American hero. Sad to see that he's sidelined in historical documents. I remember his great contributions to the Sugondese Conflict before the war.

[CardTiger]

I can't believe it took me as long as it did to realize this was a goof. Very well done Spookston.

[DefinitelyNotEmma]

That's the first American electromagnetically armed tank. But we all know the first tank with a rail gun was the Mondpanzerkampfwagen VI Tiger two Electric Boogaloo

[andrewrogers]

This is so well detailed that I honestly can’t tell if it’s fake or not.

Even while reading the description that’s telling us we can’t take any of it seriously…

[-Ljs]

The full story of Major Seymour Asses is actually really interesting. He only passed away in 2012 so the injuries from the misfire didn't take too much out of him!

[PinguThePenguino]

Fun fact: vehicle at 2:45 is a T105 Engineering Tank prototype. M4 Sherman with 183mm rocket launcher :D It really looks like a railgun

[JMTrof]

Careful Spookton, you keep doing this good of a job, someone is going to assume this was a real tank and it will end up on ConeOfArc's Fake Tank Fridays :D Great work on this fun little spoof sir.

[bubbasbigblast]

I prefer the "Fighting Joe" mechanized walker tank: the high profile and slow speed were problems, but the increased velocity from the elongated arm cannon, and back mounted Calliope-2 rockets created a much more versatile platform than the all-gun "Erika" walker of Germany, even if it had superior range.

[thejagerwolf]

I've heard about this tank, apparently it destroyed a P.1000. Amazing what technology we had beck then.

[RedstarBunny]

i...actually fell for this, i forgot today was the april fools and was about to tell a friend. well done spookston, well done.

[PrometheanGOld]

It might be an April Fools video, but Railguns and Coilguns are cool as hell

[MausBreaker]

The fact that coil guns predate the world wars makes this far too believable at least in the start of the video.

[BusterBuizel]

Shit, even the Germans had a railgun tank concept. It was the brainchild of Captain Sugma Weiner and had some crazy design details

[scout]

They say the project failed because when they went back to the drawing board, they stuck with chalk instead of markers. This significantly hampered production. Doctrines and research in the 40s ware truly different than right now

[dominicpantano]

You had me hook, line and sinker before the Seymour Asses part. Well done.

[voneror]

Any electric accelerator that can match performance of combustion gun, would have to comparable specific energy of batteries/capacitors as gunpowder. It would be slightly safer as energy storage could be entirely separated from turret/crew compartment, but it would still go boom.

[KhornesChild]

I was going to believe this video's subject was real, and then the name SEYMOUR ASSIS popped up and I knew I got baited.... Hook, line and sinker, touché Spook

[zimman]

Alright I was on board until the name "Seymour Asses" was uttered...then I FINALLY got it. Spooks you are just too good at this. You need to write your own stories!

[jakubgrzeszkowiak]

Spook can make April fool video look like legit one for real with all those details and descriptions.