MISSION STATEMENT

This website is to serve as a catalog of historical information for various tanks, across various stages of development, created for use by the United States from Pre-WWII through to the 1970s. However, the primary purpose for this website is to illustrate a proposal for what an "endgame" could look like for the US tech tree in the game, World Of Tanks, and to show that there's still plenty of life left to breathed into this game.

My aim is to see as many tanks in the game about tanks as possible, and I hope to show that in a way that respects both the historicity of the tanks shown and the balance of the game overall. As such, I will not be going into great detail on individual statistics. Rather, I will only be showing the possible modules for each tank, changes that could be made to make it more historically authentic, a historical overview, and how the tank's playstyle may be represented in-game. I will also attempt to future-proof this by including alternate hulls, half-tracks, and wheeled vehicles.

This is certainly not perfect and everything is subject to change. This is still a work in progress, and updates are frequent if not daily. This is a fan project and a labor of love. Do enjoy.

Monday, August 7, 2017

M-IV-Y


Although none of the proposals from the first Questionmark conference were selected for development, the conference served a very useful purpose in exchanging ideas. To obtain alternate design concepts from the industry, a research and development program was initiated in April 1952. Under this program, contracts were awareded to the H. L. Yoh Company, Inc.. The company presented a report on June 1, 1953 outlining seven preliminary design concepts for a new medium tank. The tank concepts ranged from conventional to outlandish. All seven tanks used the AOSI-1195-5 engine and mounted the 105 mm T140 gun.

 The fourth proposal installed the main armament inside an oscillating turret mounted inside a shield ring. The crew members were in their conventional positions and the tank was estimated to weigh 47 tons. 

While It's not specified if this tank used an automatic loader or not, I think it would be fair to give it one. It could simply be the same 105 mm gun from the T54E1, with either an extra shell and a similar reload speed for its drum, or the same number of shells and simply a quicker reload. In either case, the tank is considerably better armored.

 The M-IV-Y would play similarly to the T57 Heavy. It'd be faster and the shield ring would act as spaced armor. However, this can be balanced by having a considerably worse drum reload speed than the T57 Heavy. It would also have a very prominent cupola.

Guns: 105 mm Gun T140E2 (autoloader)

Engines: Continental AOSI-1195-5 (675 hp)

Turrets (Turret Armor (mm)): M-IV-Y (??/??/??)

Suspensions/Alternate Hulls, Total Weight (metric tons): M-IV-Y (42.66)

Hull Armor (mm): 127/??/??

Top Speed: 48 km/h

Crew: 4 (Driver; Gunner; Loader; Commander/Radio)

See Also: M-I-Y, M-VI-Y

Sources:

Hunnicutt, R. P. Abrams, 2015 
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