With the news that American tank destroyers soon to be added, I decided to do a quick episode looking at some potential American tank destroyers, such as the M6 GMC, M10 Wolverine, M18 Hellcat, M36 Jackson and many more!
Tank destroyers in this episode:
M3 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) (Added in Update 1.67 "Assault")
M6 (GMC)
M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage (Added in Update 1.67 "Assault")
M10 Wolverine (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
M18 Hellcat (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
M36 Jackson (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
M50 Ontos (Added in Update 1.71 "New E.R.A.")
M56 Scorpion (Added in Update 1.63 "Desert Hunters")
T55E1 (GMC) (Added in Update "Hot Tracks" as part of Battle Pass Season II "Steel Centurion)
T28 Superheavy tank (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory" as a premium)
T95 Tank destroyer (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
"Black cat" page:
http://warthunder.com/en/news/2922-article-series-weapons-of-victory-m18-black-cat-enPatch 1.49 rumour thread:
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/214069-patch-149-rumor-roundup/T-28-T-95 forum thread:
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/72056-t-28t-95-super-duper-ultra-galactic-heavy-tank/page-23Information citations:
Hoggs, I.V. and Weeks, J. (1980) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Military Vehicles. London, Quarto Publishing Limited, Pages 160-170
http://mr-home.staff.shef.ac.uk/hobbies/ww2pen3.pdf (Document gives information on gun penetration from various books, used to find information for the M8 HEAT shell (M66)
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/390746.pdf (Document on testing for the gun used on the T-95, but not too helpful unfortunately)
Picture citations:
M3 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AM3_75mm_gun_motor_carriage.jpgBy United States, Office of War Information. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Gun_Motor_Carriagehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A75mm_M3_GMC.jpgThis image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
M6 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_Gun_Motor_CarriageM10 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M10_tank_destroyerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-inch_Gun_M1918M18 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_HellcatM36 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M36_tank_destroyerhttp://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/M36%E9%A9%85%E9%80%90%E6%88%B0%E8%BB%8AT55E1 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T55E1_Gun_Motor_CarriageM8 Howitzer Motor Carriage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AM8GMC-Saumur.0004z89h67.jpgBy User:Fat yankey (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5 (
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
M50 Ontos:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ontos.jpg
This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
T-28 Super Heavy tank/T-95 105mm Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T28_Super_Heavy_Tankhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AT28_Super_Heavy_Tank.jpgBy Randen Pederson (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
M56 Scorpion anti-tank gun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M56_Scorpionhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AM56_Scorpion.jpgBy Greg Goebel (Flickr: Ywm56_1b) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Game: War Thunder.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gYUv8H8pyk