![]() ![]() On President Roosevelt’s personal requests tank manufacturing schedules for 1942, provisionally fixed at One Thousand medium tanks per month, had been doubled.įor this purpose, further plants were necessary and Pacific Car & Foundry, Fisher, Ford, and Federal Machine & Welder had been included to the number of factories arranged to produce the latest medium tank. An early manufacturing Ram had been delivered from Montreal Locomotive works in July 1941 for tests at Aberdeen Proving Ground which continued until October that year, but APG’s record about the Ram was interested just with its compatibility to the M3 Lee and featured not any remark on its significance to the T6 development.Īt the same time the German Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union in June 1941 revealed that possibility of US participation in WW2 in Europe might rise during the following 12 months. Documented facts (as well as the chronology of events) disprove this, on the other hand. It’s luring to point out that the T6 had been inspired, or even cloned somewhat, from the Canadian Ram in view of its similarity. ![]() ![]() Named Medium Tank T6, this tank was assembled in wooden mock-up kind in May 1941 for Armored Force Board authorization, together with a pilot design, with cast hull and minor modifications including removal of the cupola, was finalized at Aberdeen Proving Ground on 19th September 1941. Doors had been created in every side of the hull as in the M3 Lee. The 37 mm gun had been rejected and a machine gun cupola ended up being maintained on the fresh turret. Probably the most uncomplicated design had been picked, which required utilizing the M3 medium chassis, transmission, power unit, suspension, and some other mechanical components, unaffected, as well as featuring an entirely fresh hull top, both welded or cast, having a central turret mounting the 75 mm gun. Ultimate M3 working blueprints were finished in March 1941, and Rock Island Arsenal provided the Armored Force Board 5 recommended plans for the M4 Sherman at a conference the subsequent month. While development had been undertaken on the M3 the Armored Force Board drafted specifications for its successor having a 75 mm gun inside a 100% traversing turret. ![]()
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