The only figures I've been able to find are for the T34/76:I'd be grateful if someone could post definitive data on the ammo load-outs of main ww2 tanks.
From Robin Cross: The Battle for Kursk, 2002 Penguin pb, p69.Of the seventy-seven rounds carried...(on average, nineteen rounds armour-piercing, fifty-three high explosive, and five shrapnel)...
The only figures I've been able to find are for the T34/76:
From Robin Cross: The Battle for Kursk, 2002 Penguin pb, p69.
No footnotes, so I don't know the basis for these figures. Cross has Douglas Orgill's 1970 book, T-34: Russian Armour in his biblio, so I suspect that.
Not everyone was making mistakes as the British - 1 kg shell from a 40 ton tank, really??
Seems like the A20 (predecessor of the A22) was to be armed with two 2-pdrs, on 43 tons.
I dont think the designers of that abortion ever got as far as armament. Probably designed to ram its opponents and then a boarding action with cutlasses.
I'd like to see the Hobart version with a Corvus boarding plankI dont think the designers of that abortion ever got as far as armament. Probably designed to ram its opponents and then a boarding action with cutlasses.