I must take issue with what appears to be the insinuation that only UK vehicles in foreign service would use APHE, as the British themselves did use APHE ammunition and this is clearly shown in the armaments handbooks for 75mm-armed vehicles.
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AFAIK, we also used the APHE version of M61 APCBC on our Churchill Mk.7
But Gaijin is so firm in hating the British and gave nearly none of the M61(APHE) to us.
‘Because uniqueness is important!’ (while copy&paste everything in every TT at same time)
Yes. We might removed some of filler in APHE. but limiting to use only solid shot are nothing but artificial nerf.
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My bad then, I was under the impression that a preference for additional penetration resulted in service-wide removal of explosive filler from M61 type shells.
Seeing as this is probably different than I first thought, I would not have any issue giving such APHE M61 to the appropriate users in the British tree, regardless of what BR raises may result from it.
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RAM was definitely only tested altough a slightly different variant so yeah, I don’t see why it is in the US tree, altough it makes even less sense in the British tree, which had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Absolutely agree that the Skink shouldn’t have been added, especially not after such a long time of being only in the British tree, the domestic equivalent M114A2 should have been added instead and others.
ahem
(for context these are Ram Tanks in british service iirc)
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Maybe it was a sin of Wargaming which placed them in their US TT :/
‘based on M3 Lee…?’
The idea the British has nothing to do is wrong. It’s the US tree is makes the least sense in(after nations that didn’t use it at all)
A) British engineers help the Canadian design it.
B) It uses a British gun
C) It a cruiser tank, aka built for British doctrine.
D) The British where one of its 3 operator nations(aka the used it in service which is more then, testing a Ram I and getting a “Late” after the war)
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I mean Britain operated the thing. And supplied the main armament. And it was designed for British doctrine. I guess since it’s an M3 base you can make the argument there. They could’ve chosen a 37mm gun or a 75mm gun. But they chose the 2 pr and 6 pr. Take that how you will.
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Even better there is a suggestion for them.
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Oh sorry then, I thought they didn’t even test them
Iirc they never really saw combat and were used as training tanks on the home islands (as by the time they arrived the sherman was available in far greater numbers). But they were in service nonetheless, a considerably greater service than with the US anyways.
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