Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Could've WW2 Commonwealth countries mount a 17 Pounder ATG and a 25 Pounder Field gun on same tank/chis?
I guess both guns would be crew intensive and too large for a tank and limited ammunition would be carried. I can see the limitations of a M3 Medium Tank, Char B Tank, early Churchill Tank gun configurations. However imagine both guns mounted in the same turret, like Sentinel tank designers did replicating the recoil force of a 17 pounder by mounting (X2) 25 pounder guns side by side. I realise if this was achieved, the guns would have to be fired one at a time. I suppose a larger dual purpose gun like the US 90mm or maybe an invented indigenous 87.6mm gun (scaled up 17 Pounder gun) or the British 32 Pounder gun would be most likely a better idea. I suppose another idea would be to create a M3 Medium super Tank keeping the US 75mm sponson gun but adapting the hull top to create a new AC4 Tank size 178cm turret ring for mounting the 17 Pounder. The whole reason for my question is because although the 17 Pounder was the best allied anti tank gun of WW2 but had terrible HE Rounds. The rounds improved mid 1944 but were never very effective. What are your ideas for a solution?
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