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Post by oscssw on Jan 18, 2021 16:56:51 GMT
Are you talking about the T-35.
Caveat: This is not my area of expertise so I can only go by the little I have read.
I would not be too hard on the soviet designers. After all, the USA produced the M3 which had both a 75mm and a 37mm mounted separately along with up to 4 30 cal MGs, and a crew of 6 to 7.
It did good service in North Africa and was considered by Hans von Luck (an Oberst (Colonel) in the Wehrmacht Heer and the author of Panzer Commander) to be superior to the best German tank at the time of its introduction, the Panzer IV.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 18, 2021 17:00:15 GMT
Are you talking about the T-35.
Caveat: This is not my area of expertise so I can only go by the little I have read.
I would not be too hard on the soviet designers. After all, the USA produced the M3 which had both a 75mm and a 37mm mounted separately along with up to 4 30 cal MGs, and a crew of 6 to 7.
It did good service in North Africa and was considered by Hans von Luck (an Oberst (Colonel) in the Wehrmacht Heer and the author of Panzer Commander) to be superior to the best German tank at the time of its introduction, the Panzer IV.
Well i do not know much as well about tanks, mostly of the information i find online, but still find a tanks should not try to be a ship with more than one cannon. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Jan 19, 2021 4:59:05 GMT
There were different M3s built before and during WWII: the M3 Lee and the M3 Stuart. I'm guessing that the M3 Lee was the one with the two cannons, and not the M3 Stuart?
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Post by stevep on Jan 19, 2021 11:14:28 GMT
There were different M3s built before and during WWII: the M3 Lee and the M3 Stuart. I'm guessing that the M3 Lee was the one with the two cannons, and not the M3 Stuart?
Yes the Stuart was a light tank and the Lee, also in some variants called the Grant was an interim medium one until the M4 Sherman came along. Not sure why the US Army had both light and medium tanks with a M3 designation.
The two problems with the Lee was that like most US tanks it was tall, which made it roomy but also a large target and that since the main 75mm gun was in a sponson with a smaller gun in the turret, this was compounded as it couldn't take a hull-down position without making the main gun unavailable. However it was a decent quick filler for both the US and Britain until newer designs came in.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Jan 20, 2021 7:08:30 GMT
I seem to recall seeing a picture of M3 Stuarts that were commandeered by the IJA during their occupation of the Philippines.
Although going back to the subject at hand, there was also that weird prototype where it had a pair of tracks in the middle of the tank, with the tracks on the outside as well.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Jan 27, 2021 5:58:31 GMT
Meet the T-95: The Russian Super Tank Moscow Passed On (A Big Mistake?)Going back to the topic at hand, was the T-95 a better kind of tank than the T-14 Armata? I know the T-14 has the latest tech, but I might have already said that they could have just used the T-14 as a test bed for the experimental technologies that could easily be streamlined into older prototypes that could become operational.
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Post by gillan1220 on Jan 27, 2021 6:50:01 GMT
Meet the T-95: The Russian Super Tank Moscow Passed On (A Big Mistake?)Going back to the topic at hand, was the T-95 a better kind of tank than the T-14 Armata? I know the T-14 has the latest tech, but I might have already said that they could have just used the T-14 as a test bed for the experimental technologies that could easily be streamlined into older prototypes that could become operational. The T-95 would have been the MBT of the Russian Ground Forces alongside the T-90, T-80, and T-72. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Jan 27, 2021 7:46:33 GMT
True, although there were some problems with the T-80 that were present during the First Chechen War. Having a different engine for the T-80 would have been a major game changer. Diesel turbines seem to have a better reputation for such Russian tanks.
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Post by stevep on Jan 27, 2021 12:29:50 GMT
Meet the T-95: The Russian Super Tank Moscow Passed On (A Big Mistake?)Going back to the topic at hand, was the T-95 a better kind of tank than the T-14 Armata? I know the T-14 has the latest tech, but I might have already said that they could have just used the T-14 as a test bed for the experimental technologies that could easily be streamlined into older prototypes that could become operational.
Interesting. Of course since it never saw service, let alone combat we will never know how good it actually was so could have ended up as limited as the WWII Tiger say. I.e. slow, short ranged, mechanical unreliable and far too expensive. However definitely some very interesting ideas and concepts.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Jan 28, 2021 2:21:18 GMT
True, although there were really interesting and unusual prototypes that the Soviets made back then.
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Post by ukron on Feb 5, 2021 16:23:44 GMT
 The T-43 medium tank was a prototype Soviet medium tank developed during the Second World War as a possible replacement for both the T-34 medium and KV-1 heavy tanks. The project's aim was to build a medium tank with heavier armour, but German advances in tank technology proved better countered by a more heavily armed T-34-85 and the T-43 was cancelled. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Feb 5, 2021 17:06:59 GMT
The T-43’s hull looked a bit oversized, but given the deployed the Tiger, Tiger II, Jagdpanther and Panther tanks by Germany, it made more sense to simply upgrade existing Soviet tanks.
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