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Originally posted by Red Admiral
I guess that Henschel will win again? Question is whether it's going to be fairly blocky like the historical Tiger or incorporate sloped armour like the Panzer III/IV here (was that just frontal, or sides as well?) Either way, I think Italy needs a larger anti-tank gun than the 47mm.
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Between the Chars and other FAR heavy tank work and this prototyping, yeah, it's probably time to start looking at something a bit more powerful than the 47mm Bohler.
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
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Between the Chars and other FAR heavy tank work and this prototyping, yeah, it's probably time to start looking at something a bit more powerful than the 47mm Bohler.
The problems start to appear with the lack of APCR or APDS shot and the angled hulls that are appearing on most of these tanks. For the defensive war Italy is envisaging fighting, being able to shoot through the hull and turret front is needed. Most suitable gun available at the moment is the 75/46 which with APCBC can't really do this. There's the larger 76/62 which is better but fairly marginal against tanks like the TT-37. The much bigger 105/65 AA gun should do fine, but isn't really portable. Above 75mm and you've got serious problems with portability. Might just have to go to historical HESH and HEAT rounds.
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HESH rounds were invented by Sir Dennis Burney.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Hrolf Hakonson" (Jan 14th 2010, 12:53pm)
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