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.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

M26E1

M26E1 armed with the 3-Inch Gun T98.

After WWII, there were various attempts made to upgrade the M26 Pershing. The first, the M26E1, was armed with the 90 mm T54 gun, a weapon designed to use one-piece ammunition while still retaining the ballistic capabilities of the 90 mm T15E2. Later tests, also in the M26E1, replaced the 90 mm gun with the high-powered 3 Inch Gun T98. This weapon was ballistically identical with the Navy's 3 Inch, 70 caliber antiaircraft gun. A new engine was also proposed, and this version would become the M26E2. However, plans for more powerful armament were cancelled when the specifications for the modernized M26 were revised in the Spring of 1948.

This tank should be comparable to the British Churchill line of tanks: very well armored, with a small-caliber yet fast-firing, accurate, and punchy gun. Unlike the Churchill tanks, however, this tank is much faster. It's basically a more mobile M26 Pershing, with a faster firing and punchier gun. The DPM should be comparable between the two tanks, however.

Guns: 3-Inch Gun T98

Engines: Continental AV-1790-1 (740 hp)

Turrets (Turret Armor (mm)): M26E1 (102/76/76)

Suspensions/Alternate Hulls, Total Weight (metric tons): T26E4 Improved (42.64)

Hull Armor (mm): 102/76/51

Top Speed: 40 km/h

Crew: 5 (Driver; Gunner; Loader; Commander; Radio)

See Also: M26 Pershing, M26E2

Sources:
Hunnicutt, R. P. Patton, 2015 
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