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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.

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Monday, August 7, 2017

TS-31

 

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 Gun T123E1.

The TS-31 was one of these proposals. It utilizes a gimbal-type mount for the cannon with a limited traverse. The tank mounted the AV-1790-8 engine and was estimated to weigh about 45 tons. It was selected for further development as an assault tank and to provide a replacement for the T43E1 in case the T43E2 project and the long-term development programs failed.

Cross-sectional drawing of the TS-31

The TS-31 had a fairly standard 127 mm of heavily sloped frontal armor. The gun shield may be relatively thick, however the tank has a very bulbous and predominant compartment for the commander like on the T110E1.

 Like the T110E1, this tank can be thought of as a toned-down Tortoise. In order to work being a tier lower, this tank has worse armor, and more numerous and oversized weak spots. I would also consider dropping its DPM considerably compared to the Tortoise, and put it up to par with other tank destroyers of its tier. It would also be more mobile than the Tortoise.
Guns: 120 mm Gun T123E1

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

Suspensions/Alternate Hulls, Total Weight (metric tons): TS-31 (41.73)

Hull Armor (mm): 127/??/??

Top Speed: ?? km/h

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

See Also: T110E1

Sources:
Hunnicutt, R. P. Firepower, 2017
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