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  1. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 4

    Happy Belated Birthday @Claymore!

  2. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Holy crap it's been a while, glad to see the thread still going strong! EDIT: Also, sorry i forgot, but happy belated birthday Claymore!

  3. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    From what I could find online, this was apparently a mockup T-34 turret used for training. Still really cool though.

  4. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    I never said it did enter service. If you read closely, I said that it would have been a nightmare IF it had somehow entered service.

  5. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    IIRC, the twin 25-pdr mount was done to test if the chassis/turret could handle the recoil of a 17-pdr by firing both guns at once. I can only imagine how much of a nightmare the twin 25-pdrs would be to load in the event it entered service. The Egyptian M4/AMX-13 hybrid and the Israeli M-50...

  6. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    I know it's a little late, but Merry Christmas everyone!

  7. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    It's more pure fiction from Wargaming. Postwar in Australia, a lot of the turrets had been scrapped, as hulls were kept around for utility/farm tasks. So when the time came that people wanted to display the tanks, any turrets available would be used to make the vehicles look like "tanks". The...

  8. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    You would basically require a full-blown MBT to handle the 152mm XM150, and to my knowledge the only other tank it was even considered for was as a potential upgrade to the M60A2. Honestly, while a lower velocity 105mm M68 or similar gun would work, a support gun would probably be best. It...

  9. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Awesome work Claymore!

  10. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    IIRC, the Italian 75/46 was comparable to the German 7.5cm PaK 40 in terms of performance. As for the original 75/34, I want to say it was comparable to things like the US 75mm M3. Although it's been ages since I looked into any of this.

  11. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    That was actually trialed:

  12. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Ok, I think you're having a spot of trouble seeing the forest for the trees, so I'm bowing out. This is why I hardly ever post here anymore.

  13. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    The question wasn't about them being adopted, someone asked about proposals and clearly they went further than that.

  14. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Those didn't just stay as proposals, the 76mm M32, 105mm M68 (both with an without a muzzle brake), and a lower-velocity 105mm were all actually trialed on the M551.

  15. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Some of the images are old and woefully out of date, especially some of the original ones by David Bocquelet, but it's not easy to get them replaced, as oftentimes whole new illustrations are needed and the old ones can't be modified suitably.

  16. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    There were a number of French tank destroyer designs, including quite a few in a similar vein to the German Marder vehicles. And later in the fighting in 1940, several B1 Bis tanks were pressed into service against the Germans without turrets. In fact, the Italians tested the B1 bis without a...

  17. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Also, a Merkava gives up pretty much all of its ammo in order to carry anyone around like a battle taxi.

  18. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    The Stingray turret was also trialed on both the M41 and M551 hulls too.

  19. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    The original XM551 turret was actually tested on an M41 chassis: All of this information comes from Hunnicutt's book Sheridan.

  20. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    The Sheridan OTL was also tested with a short-barreled 105mm cannon:
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