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Initially named Heavy Tank T28 when construction was authorized in 1944, the design did not fit in the usual categories of vehicles, leading to reclassification. [4] As it did not have its armament in a revolving turret, the Ordnance Department requested a name change to 105 mm Gun Motor Carriage T95, the change becoming official in March 1945. [5]
Designed to break through German fortrifications, the single suriviving T28 Super Heavy Tank has 12 inches of frontal armor and weighs in at 90 tons total, with each outer track weighing 15 tons. The outer tracks were designed to come off and be towed as a single unit behind the T28 for ease of transportation.
T-28 tanks, with horseshoe radio antennas. The Finns nicknamed the T-28 Postivaunu ("mail coach" or "postal wagon") after a lone Soviet T-28 tank commander was captured with his knocked out tank that carried the monthly salary of, and mail addressed to, the 91st Tank Battalion (this occurred 19–20 December 1939, during the battle of Summa). [4]
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The M15 half-track, officially designated M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun on a half-track chassis used by the United States Army during World War II. It was equipped with one 37 millimeter (1.5 in) M1 autocannon and two water-cooled .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning heavy machine guns.
T29 heavy tank – prototype; T28 super-heavy tank a.k.a. 105 mm gun motor carriage T95 (2) – prototype; T30 heavy tank – prototype;
76 mm gun motor carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm gun motor carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT(A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track) 81 mm mortar carrier M4/A1; M21 mortar carrier; T19 howitzer motor carriage; T30 howitzer motor carriage
'Although sometimes referred to as a super-heavy tank the T28 was, in reality, a very heavy tank destroyer, and was re-designated as the 105 mm Gun Motor Carriage T95 in 1945. In 1946 it was renamed again, to T28.' - This is basically just repeating the rest of the lead. Please rewrite the lead to at least a decent size without repetition. Done