Wouldn’t exist without British request, British money, and British specifications. So it doesn’t matter if it’s American built. You’re ignoring the entire history of the vehicle. Two were made, one went to the British and was extensively tested.
The only surviving vehicle is pilot 2 which was sent to the UK, so I guess you can thank the British for preserving your history as well?
I mean didn’t Italy get a Panzer 3N despite it being a German premium (granted I guess the premium did have one more MG34 to differentiate it) and Israel the P-51D-20-NA with less ground weapons?
Presumably APHE. Currently all British tanks with the American 75mm (Sherman II and Churchill NA75) get access to APHE, its only the tanks with the British OQF 75mm that don’t.
Which is very dumb, considering the cannons are designed to fire the exact same ammo, and there were no seperate stockpiles or logistics chains for the American/British 75mms.
Hopefully this will at least be partially rectified in the next update though:
hopefully they dont give it to the mark 7 churchill it using solidshot is the only thing keeping it balanced other wise its gonna get raised in br very quickly
No. There was only 1 joint program, the T14, being a US/UK project. The A33 Excelsior was a purely British project.
The Brits wanted an assault tank, they had a go at doing it themselves, culminating in the A33, and at the same time they had a go with a collaborative project with the Americans, creating the T14.
You seem to have some wires crossed thinking that because the T14 was a joint project that the A33 was too? This is incorrect.
KV-1E doesn’t quite have the same glaring frontal weakspots as the T14 (turret face, massive MG port), and the T14 also doesn’t get access to the bonkers angled pen russian APHE.
It really isn’t “op” unless you’re in a KV-8 lul, unless you’re talking about how much better on average UK players are
It’s primarily because the US continued developing it when the British dropped out. majority of the production and such for prototypes was from the US.