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Hi olympia.
In my 6mm WWII Firefly rules they are available from late 1944.
They are armed with the 90mm L53 gun.HE APCBC (with the opton of HVAP in 1945).( Same armament as the M26 Pershing heavy tank available from early 1945.).
I have a soft spot for them.(Favorite US AFV since I was 10. )
Fast open topped tank with a massive great gun, whats a 10 year old boy not going to like about them...
BF might limit thier performance , but in reality 90mm HVAP makes a mess of just about anything!
Lanrak, I found this video and I think you'll like it. I used to live in Carlisle (Pennsylvania) and I would bring my little guys to this place almost every weekend. Great fun having the three year old trying to hang on to the barrel of the hellcat.
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You know I never understood, why designers in the West were so slow to adopt sloped armour, and I'm not talking 60-80 degrees I'm talking less than 45. It's such a simple principle and it makes your armour significantly better.
It reminds me of the KISS principle, and the legendary Fischer Space Pen, and the Russians took a pencil.
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mwnciboo wrote:It reminds me of the KISS principle, and the legendary Fischer Space Pen, and the Russians took a pencil.
It should be mentioned this story is apparently not quite true, as Fischer developed the pen on their own in part because of issues with the pencils everyone used up till then.
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mwnciboo wrote:You know I never understood, why designers in the West were so slow to adopt sloped armour, and I'm not talking 60-80 degrees I'm talking less than 45. It's such a simple principle and it makes your armour significantly better.
It reminds me of the KISS principle, and the legendary Fischer Space Pen, and the Russians took a pencil.
In fact most US tanks had at least front and turrent sloping armor. The big french Char tanks had sloped armor as well. Even the Polish had heavily sloped armor tanks.
UK, well some yes (Crusader), Churchill less so (what were they smoking???)
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Actually one of the best British tanks, with the best climb gradient of any WW2 MBT I believe.
Most likely as it weighed the same as St. Pauls...
There is another school of thought that believes that sloped angled armour, while thinner and can offer the same degree of protection, on armour plating in use in WW2 produced a higher degree of spalling from non-penetrative hits that conentional flat armour.
Hi Big P.
Sloped armour has 2 advantages:-
If the angle on the armour is steep enough it deflects more shell hits,as the ogive form on the (WWII) ballistic caps/penetrators made them prone to deflection when stricking surfaces at angles less than 42%.
(Hence the change in amunition design , since WWII)
The net armour thickness against projetiles on flatter trajectories was higher.
(2" RHA at 30deg presents 3" RHA net armour thickness.)
But as you rightly say the larger contact area on partial deflected hits on sloped armour ,coupled with less material absorbsion of shock , caused increased spaling .
