2/22/2024 0 Comments Super heavy tank battle![]() It wasn’t even a cut down 155 mm T7 L/40 like that in the T30 Heavy Tank, but a full blown Long Tom in a fully enclosed turret. There was insufficient information in regards to its mobility, although an artist’s concept was included in the board report, depicting what appeared to be a gargantuan tank in a semi-trailer type hull configuration, and armed with a 155 mm M2 L/45 artillery cannon with a giant muzzle brake. The 86-ton T28/T95 was already capable of projecting over 12 inch (305 mm) of frontal armor, now go figure a tank 1.5x its weight. As far as armor was concerned, the description was plain and simple: “The thickness of the armor was to be the maximum possible, consistent with the weight of the tank”. Whoop dee doo, the armament recommendation went wild shortly on the paper by the use of azimuth and elevation stabilizers for that caliber of a gun, and supported with a dual feed autoloader to allow cycling through multiple ammo types. Well, AGF being AGF, they proposed a tank design with a MINIMUM weight of 150 tons (136 metric tons), as well as relatively conventional ones such as a fully traversible 360° power-driven turret and a HV gun of at least 105 mm in diameter. ![]()
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