AHC: Get US To Adopt Centurion Tank Post-WWII

[yulzari]

Tankies love armour penetration but let us not forget that the only reason for needing armour penetration is to protect tanks from other tanks so that they can get on with their real job which is to use HE to support infantry. The classic is the 2 pounder which was, in it's day, the dogs proverbials at killing other tanks but was useless in supporting infantry, or even anti tank guns with no issued HE round. For the pedants, yes I know a 2 pounder HE round existed and some were used later in the war but a 40mm HE round is a posh grenade. The fact that it was too long for the ammunition racks is up there with the Vickers HV 75mm/Cromwell turret fiasco.

 

[MattII]

The 17-pounder (and to a certain degree the 76mm) suffered the same issue, lack of a good HE shell. Mind you, since the British ran into heavy concentrations of Panthers early on, that did kind of mask the issue at first.

 

[MalcontentRex]

Tankies love armour penetration but let us not forget that the only reason for needing armour penetration is to protect tanks from other tanks so that they can get on with their real job which is to use HE to support infantry. The classic is the 2 pounder which was, in it's day, the dogs proverbials at killing other tanks but was useless in supporting infantry, or even anti tank guns with no issued HE round. For the pedants, yes I know a 2 pounder HE round existed and some were used later in the war but a 40mm HE round is a posh grenade. The fact that it was too long for the ammunition racks is up there with the Vickers HV 75mm/Cromwell turret fiasco.

Tell this to the Nazi tankers that got stuck in T-34 and KV land with that snub-nosed 7,5 whose AP round struggled to pierce tinfoil.

 

[marathag]

They did testing of both the 122mm and 85mm in early T-44 prototypes. They went with the 85mm mainly due to the impracticality of the single piece 122mm ammunition.

Yugoslavian 'Super Sherman' 122mm A-19​

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Not adopted, low ammo storage and elevation/depression limits.

T23 turrets had a lot of room.

Too bad they were filled with the 76mm