The project yielded 2 different hulls, T95 and T96. T95 was a steel hull built around the 90mm, the T96 had the composite in the hull and was built around I believe a rifled 120 but Im not certain about that. So long story short no this one unfortunately does not have the hull composite
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Ah darn. That’s ok though.
Neither the T95 nor T96 program were planned with composite armour during their inception in 1954/55.
The two were simply a 90mm medium gun tank and 105mm heavy gun tank program respectively. But due to the fact that the T95 turret ring diameter was increased to be identical to that of the T96, and the armour of the T96 had to be lower than that of the T95 to keep within its weight limit, the T95 chassis was seen as superior for both roles and the T96 project got canned and what had been developed got incorporated into the T95 project in 1956.
This was decided upon before any production work had begun and thus no T96 hull was ever made. The turret of the T96 was still planned to be used in what became the T95E4, T95E6, T95E9, T95E11 and T95E12. But none of these got built before the entire project came to an end in 1960.
It was in April 1957 that composite armour was ordered to be incorporated into the T95 program, and planned to be incorprated into the hull of the first pilot T95E6, and hull and turret of the second pilot T95E6. Again, none of these were completed before the project was canned. Though six siliceous cored T95 armour hulls were produced for armour trials.
Source: Hunnicutt Abrams p.44-90
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+1 as replacement for T95E1, that thing is so useless and worst of all, extremely slow despite almost same T/W and dimensions as a T-54
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T96 sounds epic. We should really get This one and the T96. Gaijin did dirty by making the T54E2 prem imo. The current T96E1 is very stale. With a terrible reload. Having the T95 Medium and T96 at 8.3 or maybe 8.7 respectively would be fantastic
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. We need composites
folder it with the current one and its a yes from me +1
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i hope in this addding
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I love the T95E1 so honestly I’d love to see this thing as well, take my +1
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That looks pretty cool! I think it would be a good event vehicle maybe
nah is ok in the us tech tree
Or that too 😂
Long as it’s added
+1. It would be nice to see this added sometime soon.
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Excellent candidate for an additional 8.7 US tank. +1
+1 wouldn’t see the harm of adding it
Heard a rumor that they mounted a chieftains turret to one of them is that true
They never did but the hulls could have mounted the turret. They tested an M48 turret, T54E1 turret, and the current turret we have in game. The biggest thing the current T95E1 is missing is the rangefinder that was purpose built for it.
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Would love to see the see the T95E8 Delta with the delta dart. There’s a pretty good Reddit post on it from 7 years (yeah I know) ago. This whole project is so interesting. One of the few examples of domestic US cannons (ones that fire apfsds at least) before adoption of the British 105 mm and German 120 mm and the rest is history.
Would love to see any T95 tbh +1
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how is this one different with t95 we have ingame?
This version uses a different gun mounting which would give it a full stabilizer. It also features the optar system which was an early form of active rangefinder
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