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, September 18, 2017

TS-4/3

Drawings of the TS-4 design.

In June 1954, the third Questionmark Conference took place to review the progress made since the first two conferences in 1952. During this meeting, nine medium tank concepts were presented as possible replacements for the M48 Patton, five of which were considered short-term proposals that would have an estimated development cycle of two years.

Three of these vehicles, the TS-1, TS-3, and TS-4, were identical except for their armor and had respective weights of 43, 40, and 35 tons. The front plate of all three tanks was angled 60 degrees from the vertical and had reduced side armor compared to the M48. The TS-1 used siliceous-cored armor, which was specifically designed to defeat shaped charges.

However, the other two vehicles were protected by solid homogeneous steel. The TS-3 was protected by 3.8 Inches of armor while the TS-4 was protected by 1.5 inches. The angling doubled the effective thickness of the armor. All three tanks were armed with the 90 mm Gun T139 found on the M48 and used the AOI-1195-1 engine.

Drawings of the TS-3 design. Note the thicker frontal armor over the TS-4.

The vehicle I'm proposing, the TS-4/3, is simply a combination of the latter two tanks. This is specifically made with alternate hulls in mind, where the second hull more than doubles the frontal armor of the tank. We'll also need a few other gun options, so I would like to add the T119 as a stock option and the T139E1 as an elite option. The T119 would provide worse performance than the T139, while the T139E1 would provide improved handling. As for engines, we can easily borrow the AOI-628-1 used in the TS-9 proposal.

In total, the TS-4/3 is pretty unremarkable, leaning more towards mediocrity than decency. It's fairly agile, but the side armor is squishy regardless of the hull used, and I'd imagine the turrets would be similarly vulnerable. The guns are average, though.

Guns: 90 mm Gun T119; 90 mm Gun T139; 90 mm Gun T139E1

Engines: Continental AOI-628-1 (340 hp); Continental AOI-1195-1 (560 hp)

Turrets (Turret Armor (mm)): TS-4 (38/??/??); TS-3 (97/??/??)

Suspensions/Alternate Hulls, Total Weight (metric tons): TS-4 (31.75); TS-3 (36.28)

Hull Armor (mm): 38/??/?? (TS-4); 97/??/?? (TS-3)

Top Speed: ?? km/h

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




 Parent: M4 90V
Children: MBT(MR), T95 Medium
See Also: TS-9

Sources:
Hunnicutt, R. P. Abrams, 2015. 
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