Message from @Large H
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@Hot babe VK168.01 (P) Ah, the Mutant
Only 1 prototype ever made, never saw combat duty, Shemans with 76mm were good enough and Pershings as well as Chafees did well
that thing was a monster and i hated fighting that thing in WOT Blitz
Because it has a fake armor plate in WOT of 125mm thick
The real one still retaned the M6A1 Front glacis
The T1 Heavy chasse, is notorous for having stupidly weak frontal armor, and dont try angling it because the tank has cheek side angles that will be flat surfaces when you angle the vehicle
And was supposed to go toe to toe against Tigers with its 76mm cannon
Why they ever thought bumping the gun up to a 90mm i wont know
Becsuse the issue wasnt its gun
Only thing it had going with it was its powerful radial engine and being spacious inside
76mm in some cases wasn't sufficient (i.e. Panthers and King Tigers) 90mm proved more than sufficient for those
Why do you think USSR got the 85mm and 122mm on T-34 and IS-2/JS-2?, they were punching through with enough kinetic force that even if it didn't penetrate, the spalling was ridiculously large that the crew would be incapacitated
Large cannons are brutal
ISU-152 cannon could flip over tiger 1’s
If hit at the side
It could flip a tiger? Damn, now that's an impact.
And knock off the turrets of tiger II’s
Its a Howitzer round fired by a casemate TD, what do you expect?
Didn't realize the ISU-152 had that much punch to it.
ok, thats big and all but battleship guns, wow
The largests guns on any BB was the Yamato Class with 410mm
Okay, if we're on the topic of Battleships then... Can we bring them back? I wish we still had some giants roaming the seas.
Second being Iowa with 381mm
> Okay, if we're on the topic of Battleships then... Can we bring them back? I wish we still had some giants roaming the seas.
@Large H Expensive
Don't care how expensive, I'd love to just see them again.
But, seriously. You're right, they're really expensive for what they are and other ships can do a better job.
Yamato had 460mm guns
18 inch
ok, lets put this into perspective, a BB takes anywhere between 15k-38k men to operate, all of them have to be paid, then we have to do maintenance of the ship periodically, for a ship the size of 300+ Meters, its a hefty fee, then its ammo, we need to not only modernize the breech, it uses a specific powder to launch the shell which is no longer in production
> Yamato had 460mm guns
@Hot babe VK168.01 (P) Thanks for the correction, I have vertigo still
@PantherUnit01 so did bismark
Yamato was 264 meters and Iowa class 270 meters
but, two gun turret in stead of three
Understood
But still, they are expensive ships
which is why we moved to Cruisers and DD's
No there is an Yamato design with 6 540mm guns but normal Yamato has 9 460mm guns
> No there is an Yamato design with 540mm guns but normal Yamato has 9 460mm guns
@Hot babe VK168.01 (P) Yeah, the Super Yamato or the I class hull BB's, they were blueprints and a Keel placed the 540's wout be 2 barrel and had an effective range of 18km
Wait only 18km ? Lol