Tried to protect the ammunition stored in the tank, providing frames or armored plates to the storages. The first models of the M4 had the unfortunate reputation of exploding violently when hit by anti-tank fire. Upper part of the hull welded and quite angular and it became the M4 the other had the upper part of the hull made by casting - which was quite harder but faster to produce, without any otherĪdvantage or disadvantage - and it became the M4A1. This draft project, which was called T6 Medium Tank until it was normalized, appeared in two forms.
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Series models this one was the M3 cannon, with a muzzle speed of 619 meters/second. Mounted the M2 cannon, which with a muzzle speed of 564 meters/second was deemed as too short, so in September 1940 it was ordered a longer cannon with higher muzzle speed to be installed in the Another reminiscence of the M3 were the side doors provided in the hull. Or welded, fitted with a central turret armed with a 75-millimeter cannon and a cupola with machine gun. It was chosen the most advanced one, which used the chassis, engine, transmission and suspension of the M3 with a new superior hull, cast Ended the project of the M3 in March 1941, the Rock Island Arsenal offered in April of that yearįive designs for the future M4 to the Armored Force Board. Specified that the hull had to mount a full-rotating turret and a stabilized 75-millimeter cannon. Role in the liberation of Europe, and that it would be the most profusely produced and the most important tank of the Allies during the Second World War. Then, the creators of the project could barely imagine that their tank would have such an important Of a German invasion while France, Belgium and Holland were trying to get used to the occupation. In that time, the British were preparing for the threat The design of which would become the M4 medium tank started one day after it was ordered the production of the M3, in the late August 1940.
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