• ArbitraryValueEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    What is that tank? The big, fixed, off-center gun is interesting…

    • PugJesus@kbin.socialOPM
      4·
      11 months ago

      M3 Grant/Lee, the tank that came before the M4 Sherman. They couldn’t engineer a solution for the heavy main gun to get on the turret and they needed a tank for North Africa as quick as possible, so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman.

      • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman

        yep, but you can also easily tell from that photo that the M3 hull formed the basis for the M4 hull. Basically they wanted to build it like the M4 the whole time but couldn’t, so the M3 was made on that platform as a stop gap solution