South Dakotas broadside is 24300 lbs (9x2700), Vanguard's is 15504 (8x1938). To really get a feel of how vulnerable the two ships are to each...
An extra inch of penetration makes a huge difference, to wit the 17pdr with ABCBC penetrates more armor at 1828 meters then the 85mm ABCBC does at...
On a purely quantative level, the kamikaze attacks inflicted more casulties then conventional attacks would have, actually, as Tiornu noted, given...
A picture is worth a thousand words... Take a look at a 17pdr and 77mm side by side. http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/tankuk2.jpg The 17pdr...
Uh - how good was the 90mm L/50 gun? In general it was inferior to the 17pdr ABCBC, in addition it did not have APDS ammo. In the last month...
I might actually take a M-18. Quick turret traverse, and while its armor is paper thin, at that range, against a Panther, its not likely to...
Minor correction on the Sherman article. The M10 had the 3in AT gun, the M36 was the only 90mm armed GMC.
Not a Sherman per se... Not a Sherman, but a Sherman derivative, the M36. That thing looks like pure business, as in Bring on the Panthers...
The Sherman and T34 were very close in overall ability, each with different strengths and weaknesses, I have no doubt that some Soviet crews...
In Korea, I think China had some IS-2's, but I believe they were never used in combat. Don't qoute me on that. Thier respective descendants...
I don't know the postwar standard for ammo load out, I know that HVAP for the 76mm was in extremely short supply for Sherman tanks in WWII, maybe...
Honestly, I don't know too much about that. I believe shortages of certain critcal materials used in armor led to pretty wide variations in the...
Compared In general the tanks were somewhat comparable in overall combat capability, but I’d rate the IS-2 as superior in overall capability....
