T-34-85M (Late service, Poland)

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It’s hard to tell, but because it was really the only anti tank gun used in LWP it should be the D-44.

Also the carriage only has one wheel, and the only other anti tank gun (BS-3) had double wheels on each side

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Few updates:

  • W-2-34M 520hp → W-2-34M 500hp

    • The Polish W-2-34M seems to be different than the Soviet V-2-34M. The manual states 500hp at 1800 rpm, whilst the Soviet version is 520hp at 2000 rpm. This could be a similar thing to the CV 12-9A engine where it is technically 1300hp, but could easily be uprated to 1500hp. The T-34-85M2 modification saw many improvements to the engine, which could in turn possibly see it uprated to 520hp, though I would need to do a lot more research to confirm this

  • Turret rotation = 30°/sec. The manual states maximum turret rotation with the eletric motor goes from 20-30°/sec. So I obviously put down 30°/sec as it could do that. This is a decent improvement from the Soviet (and all other T-34-85s ingame) which can only do 25°/sec.

  • Also removed T-34-76 M1943 from being in LWP service as I don’t think it was actually in service, just the M1942 (though they are both very similiar)

All in all, I think that this could still be at 6.3 as it is basically an improved T-34-85 (STP), but without the stabilizer. To compensate for the stabilizer you have all the technical improvements and then the ability to fire APDS

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Added commander gun override as stated in a CIA document about Polish production T-34-85s.

This is the same document about the T-34-100 in Polish service, and whilst I am taking that with a grain of salt the rest of the document is generally pretty accurate.

I also believe most later model T-34-85s had commander override anyway.This is for the license production 1953 T-34-85s, but still would obviously be present in the modernized variants.

Lastly, when I have time pretty soon I’m going to do a suggestion for T-34-85M1 and the Polish license production T-34-85 (maybe if I have time I’ll do the ones we used in WW2 but that’s not all too interesting as it’s just Soviet production)

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that reminds me, I remember something about our T-34-85’s being tested with a stabaliser, do you know something about this or am I just making stuff up?

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We made a domestic stabilizer SC-314 and also tried the STP-1 (T-54/D-10TS stabilizer).

I have never found any pictures and they both were cancelled because it was too expensive and didn’t work well enough

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