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Russia has a 100mm in service, France, Italy, and Japan all have a 90mm in service, and ze Germans have their 88mm. The Americans are testing the 3.5in in a modified Longstreet chassis as well as on some M6 heavy's but aren't expecting in service until the beginning of mid 1945.
since Italy's started building a lot larger tanks than I expected to see in service within the next five years. For now, the French practice so far has been to keep penetration figures up using better shell design with their smaller 75mm guns. It's a bit of an irritating thing for me: an HV 75mm gun still ought to rule the battlefield, since we lack all of the combat one-upsmanship from WWII to drive calibers up.
The data I have been able to locate on Italian AT guns supports this conclusion. I would be happy to present more data on this, but don't want to derail this thread. Perhaps we could split the comments about calibers already in service beyond as reference to the proposed gun off into another thread?
I'm not sure about a direct-fire role, rate of fire is low and, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't spigot mortars muzzle loaders?
The 100mm gun raises my eyebrows for a 1944 tank, we've been frowning on 90mm guns in Europe and while we've allowed them as future developments, a 100mm in 1944 just seems to be jumping ahead - although I agree the M44 needs a powerful gun.
I wonder how close the stats for the proposed 100mm gun stack up against the aforementioned 90mm class guns in addition to the 85mm guns in service on Polish and I asume Russian tanks (AFAIK, the Russian 100mm gun is only in service on the Su-100 and not a turreted tank). I think that information would help figure out whether there is an issue or not.
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