What would a "best of the lot" tank look like in 1943?

Also they can't just manage to fit the gun into the turret, they have to get reasonable rate of fire out of a tank crew in combat. That was one of there main advantages over there enemies until Wallie tanks of the late war.
 
I'd be grateful if someone could post definitive data on the ammo load-outs of main ww2 tanks.
The only figures I've been able to find are for the T34/76:

Of the seventy-seven rounds carried...(on average, nineteen rounds armour-piercing, fifty-three high explosive, and five shrapnel)...
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.
 
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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.

I found this for the M4A2; but this was while the US Army still believed in the Tank Destroyer doctrine, and the Shermans were primarily used for soft targets.

M4A2-early-storage.png
 
Not everyone was making mistakes as the British - 1 kg shell from a 40 ton tank, really??

The Churchill was meant to have the 6 pounder 57mm gun from the start but the 6 pounder didnt start production in time for the MkI Churchill due to the post Dunkirk Invasion Scare kept the factories turning out the 2 pounder. A June 1941 Churchill with the 6 pounder would have been among the most powerfully armed and probably the best armoured tank in service. Unfortunately 6 pounder production didnt get underway till late 1941 and early production went to the artillery. 6 pounder Churchills were a year late.
 
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