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 17, 2017

TS-6


The third Questionmark conference was held at Detroit in June 1954 and several new concepts for improved heavy gun tanks were presented. Six of these were proposed as potential replacements for the T43E1 (M103). Four of the concepts were considered to be fairly short-term proposals requiring about two years of development time. 


Two of these were armed with the 120 mm T123E1 rifled gun. One of these, the TS-6, placed the gun in a fully rotating turret and was estimated to weigh 54.5 tons. The side armor on this vehicle was reduced compared to the M103. This tank also used the Continental AV-1790-8 engine. A non-turreted version of the TS-6, the TS-31, would go on to lay the foundation of the T110 family of concepts.

Cross-sectional drawing of the TS-6.

I haven't been able to find much about this tank beyond what's mentioned in Hunnicutt's Firepower. However, we can infer some information about the TS-6 based on general trends with Questionmark conference designs, and the images of the TS-6 compared to the TS-2.

At the very least, we can expect a tank with a larger profile and improved frontal protection compared to the TS-2. We can also establish there'd be improved gun characteristics, despite the larger caliber.

There's also that protrusion over the engine deck, so a weakness of this vehicle would be that it can't depress its gun over the rear. However, we can still expect some of the best gun depression and DPM for the tier. Gun handling should remain fairly average, though.

This tank would play similarly to the old (Tier X) T110E5. However, it's a bit more mobile and has better DPM, in exchange for reduced side armor and limited gun depression over the rear.

Guns: 120 mm Gun T123E1

Engines: Continental AV-1790-8 (825 hp)

Turrets (Turret Armor (mm)): TS-6 (??/??/??)

Suspensions/Alternate Hulls, Total Weight (metric tons): TS-6 (49.44)

Hull Armor (mm): ??/51/38

Top Speed: ?? km/h

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



Parent: TS-2

Sources:
Hunnicutt, R. P. Firepower. 2017. 

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