Yes it’s true there where design philosophy that changed over the years and expectations. Patton tank was developed off of a WW2 program that’s why they where pushed out of service by the USA as there main MBT. Though there where features that the Abrams tank omitted to later be requested to be redeveloped. Anti infantry shells being one of them.
Russians would have that too with the T55 being the last tank with a artillery indirect fire ability baked in. It’s not great but it can work in a pinch.
Regarding the Patton with infantry mode anti-infantry shell is going to be more useful then you think vs HE
Nearly every western tank had this problem with smoothbore ammunition until DM11 and HEAT-MP rounds were made
I’m sorry what? Do you know that BR-412 out of D-10T is a 900m/s shell? How can you even do indirect fire within 1-2km with a shell that fast
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They had special optics so you could use them like artillery. It’s not great but later tanks would not include these features. Expectations changed. HE shell
WW2 had different expectations anti-personal was very important one reason why USA tankers liked early Sherman tanks vs ones with longer range guns.
Like what? they just had regular periscopes and TSh-2B-32P Day Sight
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Yeah because it was purposely designed so that the HE shells can be lobbed through indirect fire
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ya later on it was seen as less relevant things changed.
What I am saying game play wise people may get more utility out of a Patton tank in infantry mode then a modern MBT.
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