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The project was approved in June and the vehicle received the designation Heavy Tank T1. Initially, a multi- turreted design was proposed, with two main turrets each armed with a low-velocity T6 75 mm (2.95 inch) gun, a secondary turret with a 37 mm gun and a coaxial .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine gun , and another secondary turret with a 20 mm ...
Front view of M6, with several early M3 light tanks in the background. The M6 heavy tank was a heavy tank built off of the similarly designed multi-turreted T1, armed with a 76.2 mm gun, a co-axial 37 mm gun, two .50 BMG M2 Browning and two .30-06 M1919 Browning machine guns, two in the hull and one on top of the turret. An order of 50 was ...
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.
M5 light tank, (Stuart) M6 heavy tank, 60-ton; M7 medium tank (G137) M8 light armored car (Greyhound) M22 Locust tank, light, airborne, 37 mm gun; M24 Chaffee tank, light, 18-ton, 75 mm gun; M26 Pershing tank, medium (originally classified as heavy), full-track, 47-ton, 90 mm M26E1 Pershing tank, medium, full-track, 47-ton, 90 mm
Pershing and Sherman tanks of the 73rd Heavy Tank Battalion at the Pusan Docks in South Korea. Captured Pershing on display at a North Korean museum in Pyongyang. At the outbreak of the Korean War, only four tank companies equipped with the M24 Chaffee were operational under the U.S. Far East Command. In July 1950, when the M24 was revealed ...
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 Pershing, the T32 Heavy Tank, but after the end of the World War II, the project was cancelled and the four prototype vehicles were scrapped.
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In early August 1944, discussions cropped up about the brand-new Heavy Tank M6A2E1, a thorough modernization of the Heavy Tank M6. General Lucius Clay spoke out against this idea, due to it lacking mobility and having an estimated mass of 77 tons. The idea of developing a brand-new tank called Heavy Tank T29 was first voiced on 14 August.