When it comes to the development and development of tanks, the entire period of World War II can be said to be the peak period. In order to make their own tank performance suppress the enemy on the battlefield, the participating countries can be said to have spared no effort in the development of new tanks, so many well-known classic armored vehicles have also been born. However, there is one country with an exception, that is, eagle sauce, when it comes to the representative tanks of a country during World War II, you can blurt out two or three kinds, and when it comes to the representative tanks of eagle sauce, it gives people the feeling that Sherman seems to have used it for a lifetime. It wasn't until a few months after the end of World War II that the M26 tank arrived.
M26 Pershing tank
Development Background:
The birth of the M26 Pershing tank can be said to be an improvement on the T2x series, in early 1942, the US army found that the German army in North Africa has been equipped with the No. 4 G tank, which is equipped with a 43 times diameter 75 gun more powerful than the Sherman tank that has just entered service, so the order was issued to develop the successor model of the Sherman tank (T20, T23 and other experimental tanks), with the advancement of time, the US armored forces in Normandy encountered a terrorist armored killer, which is the German Tiger Panther tank. The Sherman was completely crushed in the fight, and the demand for new tanks in the US army was unprecedentedly urgent. After experimental comparison, the improved T26E3 of the T26 was finalized and produced, and the US military special general John Joseph Pershing named the M26 Pershing.
Performance advantages and disadvantages:
For a tank that entered the battlefield at the end of World War II, the performance of the M26 is not very brilliant, compared with germany in the same period, the Soviet Union's heavy tanks are much worse, but its performance is more balanced, it can be said that it is an all-round warrior.
In terms of firepower, the M26 tank uses a 50×diameter 90mmM3 tank gun (T26E4 Super Pershing is a 73-caliber T15E2 tank gun) with a maximum rate of fire of 8 rounds/min. Two 7.62mm Browning M1919 machine guns and a 12.7mm Browning anti-aircraft machine gun. When using tungsten core armor piercing shells, it can penetrate 180 mm thick armor vertically at 1000 meters, and the later production model is equipped with a gun stabilizer.
In terms of protection, the front of the M26 hull adopts 50° thick 100mm armor (stronger than the Tiger and Leopard head protection), the side, the rear armor is 76,51mm, and the front protection of the turret is 114mm.
In terms of maneuverability, the M26 is equipped with a Ford GAF6002B engine with a maximum horsepower of 500, and the maximum speed on the road: 48 km / h (off-road: 20 km / h) and a maximum range of 200 km.
Improved model:
Speaking of improved models of the M26, the most famous of them is the Super Pershing, which was born to fight against the Tiger King tank. Super Pershing uses a 73x diameter 90mmT15E2 tank gun with more terrifying armor-piercing capabilities, which is comparable to Tiger King's 88mm Kwk43 L/71 tank gun, and even surpasses tiger king tanks when using tungsten core armor-piercing bullets. However, the front-line soldiers were still very disgusted with its weak defenses, and on a whim, they directly cut down the destroyed Panther head armor and installed it on the front of the turret (one of the famous terriers), and installed two 38mm thick steel plates on the front of the hull.
Super Pershing Tank
There are also many derivatives of the M26, such as the T92 and T93 self-propelled guns modified from the chassis, and I believe that the friends who have played the World of Tanks have been sanctioned by it, but with the end of the war, they are not equipped with troops.
T92 self-propelled gun
M26 Pershing tank as the successor of the Sherman tank, the late entry into the battlefield led to its no substantial record, compared with the tanks of the same period, it can be said to be relatively backward, but in the development of the Eagle Sauce tank on the M46, M48 and a series of tanks that appeared in later generations had a profound impact.
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