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Skink - 20mm Flak Sherman

Canadian military came up with a system that effectively put four 20 mm auto-loading cannons into the turret of a tank. It was known as the Skink. As the marriage of two off-the-shelf technologies- the M4A1 Grizzly tank (a Canadian version of the Sherman tank) and the Polsten automatic cannon, the Skink was a weapon system that saw little action but was a superb proof of concept.


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Brought to Europe 1945. There were not many German airplanes left on the Western Front, so it had not really a chance to fight them. But it was used with devastating effects against German infantry.

Big advantage over the German Wirbelwind: The turret was not open on the topside.