Rare WW2 Light Tank M3A1 Satan - Stuart - Footage.

Rare WW2 Light Tank M3A1 Satan - Stuart - Footage.

The M3/M3A1 Satan tank was a vehicle converted for US Marine Corps in 1943, which had the Ronson flamethrower installed instead of the main gun.

This conversion came to be because the tank didn't preform well the Pacific theater, the narrow tracks did not perform well in the harsh terrain, and their limited firepower put them at great risk, especially against Japanese fortification which the 37mm main gun could not penetrated.

The Marines in the Pacific, mainly used flamethrowers but these units were vulnerable, so the marines started fitting the M1A1 flame equipment on the M3 Light tank, first version would fire through the pistol port of the M3’s turret, later version would fire from the bow machine gun.

But the overall inadequate performance of these modification let to the development of the Satan, but after only 24 were produced these were replaced by the much better M4A2 flame Sherman.
There was also a M5A1 Stuart E7 version of the flamethrower vehicle, but this would see limited use.

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