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The Shelton is a tank featured in Grand Theft Auto Online.

Grand Theft Auto: Online
The Shelton has many design cues from the M4 "Sherman" on the body. However, it takes the same gun and turret as the M551 "Sheridan." It also has the same tracks as the M48 "Patton."

The hatch to the driver's seat is below the turret, despite the driver has to get in through the turret.

Armament wise, it comes with a 152mm grenade launcher, with the ability to upgrade it to have the ability to fire ATGMs. It also comes with a roof mounted M2 Browning machine gun that can be swapped out for a minigun or a grenade launcher, as well as a M1919 Browning machine gun that can be upgraded to either a BGM-71 TOW missile launcher, a heavy machine gun, or another grenade launcher.

The tank also appears to have explosive reactive armor, with four side mounted grenade launchers on both of the sides of the tank.

Grand Theft Auto Online
Because it is a light tank, it has great speed for a tank, being faster than the other tanks. It also has a very quick turn rate, comparable to the dozer. However, these performance traits come with a price of lackluster armor. Its armor can only withstand two tank shells, or just one to the rear, or 25 seconds of continuous minigun fire. It can only take 10 explosive sniper bullets, 1 RPG shell, two homing launcher shells, 1 proximity mine, three grenades or 10 sticky bombs. However, this can be countered with fully upgraded armor, making able to take six tank shells, 50 seconds of minigun fire, 17 sticky bombs, four RPG shells, 7 homing launcher missiles, 4 proximity mines, or 40 explosive sniper bullets

However, its default armament is a 152mm grenade launcher that at first comes with high explosive shells, but can be upgraded to fire armor piercing high explosive shells or simply sabot rounds. The armor piercing high explosive shells are capable of taking out a fully upgraded Khanjali in four shots, and a Rhino in only one shot. However, the grenade launcher can be upgraded to also be able to fire anti-tank guided missiles that have superior tracking and damage to any guided missile, besides the Strike Condor's missiles. However, due to the tracking and damage the ATGMs can deal, they can only lock onto ground targets.

The turret also comes with a M2 Browning heavy machine gun that does the same amount of damage as every other heavy machine gun turret. However, the belts can be swapped out from normal fifty caliber rounds to armor piercing, to incendiary, to high explosive. If the player does not want the Browning machine gun, it can be upgraded to an M134 Minigun that can have explosive belts, or even a grenade launcher. It also comes with a simple M1919 thirty caliber machine gun that can be swapped out for a Combat MG, another Browning M2, a grenade launcher, or another ATGM launcher.

It also comes with a thirty caliber coaxial machine gun that can be operated by the passenger, as well as four grenade launchers that are also operated by the passenger.

The turret can also be converted into a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, with twin Bofors 40 mm cannons. The cannons are high explosive rounds, that can destroy unarmored aircraft in one shot, they can also be swapped out for four Flak 38 autocannons, which deal almost as much damage as the Bofors cannons.