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20.5 in (52 cm) Fuel capacity. 477 US gallons (1,810 L) Operational. range. 100 miles (160 km) Maximum speed. 22 mph (35 km/h) The Heavy Tank M6 was an American heavy tank designed during World War II.
Tanks of the United States. The M4A3 (76)W HVSS (M4A3E8) variant of the M4 Sherman tank embodied improvements made throughout production in light of experience. The United States has produced tanks since their inception in World War I, up until the present day. While there were several American experiments in tank design, the first American ...
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The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II. They were primarily mounted on tanks, such as the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman, but one variant was also used as an air-to-ground gun on the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber aircraft. There were five main variants used during the war ...
An M6 Linebacker along the highway near Balad, Iraq, October 2005. An air defense variant, these vehicles are modified M2A2 ODSs with the TOW missile system replaced with a four-tube Stinger missile system. From 2005 to 2006, M6 Linebackers had their Stinger missile systems removed and were converted to standard M2 Bradley ODS IFVs.
The M6 heavy tank was designed in 1940 but held few advantages over medium tanks and planned production of several thousand was stopped. [3] The Anglo-American T14 heavy tank project started in 1941 did not deliver a pilot model until 1944.
Heavy tanks. The Pershing heavy tank (named after General Pershing) was the only heavy tank used in combat by the US armed forces during World War II. An earlier design, the Heavy Tank M6, was not accepted for large scale production and only 40 were produced. Work began in early 1945 to develop a significantly heavier variant of the M26 ...
The M26 was the culmination of a series of medium tank prototypes that began with the T20 in 1942, and it was a significant design departure from the previous line of U.S. Army tanks that had ended with the M4 Sherman. Several design features were tested in the prototypes. Some of these were experimental dead-ends, but many became permanent ...