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why use a 90mm AA for knocking tanks when you could use a 120 AA gun. I guess late in the war the US now had 120 AA as well. http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/AberdeenUSArmyOrdinanceMuseum/AntiAircraftGuns/American120mmM1AAGun/index.htm

Will you add the skdfz 250/8 ?

He was talking about 3.7inch not 37mm

^ yeah strange huh. I knew about the 105 howitzer but, I never even knew there was a 105mm AT gun - says it never saw combat in Europe.

^ that digital beep would not be around in ww2 that's why I was wondering if another tone or even the word over and out was used

*Beep* request fire mission over?

for all cm x2 games will you remove the digital radio transmit and receive beep sound? What sound or tone did they use in ww2 to begin and end a radio transmission

I think somewhere in the time period the 90mm AA units joined AT units. This has already happened in the ardennes where vets recount killing tanks with them. The stories from vets and their 90mm AA guns are very hard to come by BUT THERE ARE SOME STORIES OF ANTI-TANK USE and literature lacks any specifics that I have found as of yet, just stories from veterans of the gun. There are also a couple pictures of them in the AT position and are very hard to come by as well. I have only seen one guarding a road from tanks. But the lack of pictures doesn't mean they were NOT used for AT.

The M3 was also adapted as the main gun for various armored vehicles, starting with the experimental T7 which was accepted as the '''90 mm M3'''. The test firing of the M3 took place on an M10 tank destroyer+ in early 1943. The M3 gun was used on the M36 tank destroyer, and the T26 (later, M26) Pershing+ tank. Green, Michael, ''Tiger Tanks At War'', Zenith Press, ISBN 9780760331125, 076033112X (2008), pp. 118-122 The M3 fired a M82 APC shot with a muzzle velocity of 2,650 feet per second. However, both the muzzle velocity of the standard M3 gun and the quality of the steel used in the M82 APC shot were inferior to the KwK 43 L/71 88 mm main gun firing its standard APCBC shot used by German forces, with the result that the former's penetration fell far short of the standard projectile fired by the KwK 43 German 88 mm used on the Tiger II/King Tiger tank. As a result, U.S. ordnance provided some T26/M26 tank crews with the 90 mm HVAP (high-velocity, armor-piercing) tungsten penetrator sub-caliber projectile with a muzzle velocity of 3,350 feet per second, or the T33 AP with a re-heat-treated projectile with ballistic windshield and a muzzle velocity of 2,800 feet per second. ''Armor-Piercing Ammunition for Gun, 90-mm, M3'', Washington, D.C., U.S. Army: Office of the Chief of Ordnance (January 1945) The HVAP could compete with the KwK 43's penetration performance when firing std. APCBC, but tungsten ammunition was always in short supply, and the T33 which only just made it in service a month before the end of the war still fell far short of the KwK 43's performance. An unsuccessful anti-tank variant was the T8 gun on the T5 carriage. The gun was an M1 with the recoil mechanism from the M2A1 105 mm howitzer+. Eventually a version of the T8 with the T20E1 gun and T15 carriage was tested; this led to the 105 mm anti-tank gun T8+. Because the standard fifteen-and-a-half foot long M3 90 mm main tank gun proved incapable of penetrating the heaviest frontal armor of the heaviest German tanks such as the Tiger II/King Tiger tanks and their seldom-seen ''Jagdtiger+'' tank destroyer variant, a number of improved versions of the M3 were developed, including the T14 which included a standard muzzle brake+ and the T15 series. The 21-foot long T15E1 90 mm main gun fired AP T43 shot with an initial muzzle velocity+ of about per second, later increased to per second. Two M26A1E2 "Super Pershing" tanks were equipped with T15-series 90 mm main guns in March 1945. One of these tanks, equipped with a 90 mm caliber T15E1 high-velocity gun firing an AP shot at per second made it to the European Theater of Operations and was assigned to the 3rd Armored Division for the testing purposes. Firing HVAP this gun could penetrate 8.5 in (220 mm) of rolled homogeneous armor (RHA) at a range of 1,000 yd (914 m). Near the end of World War II, more experimental versions of the 90 mm gun were tested, including the T15E2 and the even higher velocity T18 and T19 main guns. The T19 was a T18 modified in an attempt to reduce barrel wear. Other versions included the T21, which was intended for wheeled vehicles, and the T22, which used the breech from the standard 105 mm M2+ howitzer. The T21 and T22 were designed to use larger powder charges. None of these versions entered service.

^ Agreed. I found this on them if anyone is interested

70-80 made is damn rare, and that's if they didn't break down, run out of fuel or fall through some bridge trying to get somewhere first. As for the 90mm gun, wiki claims "Several thousand were available when the US entered the war" "Production rates continued to improve, topping out in the low thousands per month." There is buried information out there that never made it to the internet about the guns exact use in ww2, Possibly by vets or possibly by book, I have not had the time to look for it.

My theory is that it stops rendering the graphics since it has to render desktop, many games do this.

It starts the rain trouble when you alt-tab out of game then re enter the game try it.. Before the alt tab I got good constant rain.

In real life slush etc would make some tank HE not even go off. Mortar rounds would not work good etc.

There is none. It just involved two diamlers flanking the panther and shooting at it's sides behind cover, this tied it down in the field at one point it rushed one of the diamlers i just backed it away form the hedges then slowly crept forward against them again. I called up the GMC half track because a sherman could not get there due to a StuG eyeballing the area he had to cross. I just put the target arc from the M3 GMC on hit again after the crew had bailed to insure it didn't operate. End of story.

He wouldn't make a good tanker

some of the US 81mm have fuses that explode after penetration. The 81s could smash pillboxes easily. maybe one of these I looked at it on wiki M45, M45B1 Heavy HE: 10.62 lb (4.82 kg); range max 2558 yd (2064 m); bursting radius comparable to the 105 mm howitzer. Equipped with a delay fuze so some penetration is possible for demolition use.

If it's a StuG, that soldier makes it look like a toy.

the caption said it was found in italy and is a stuk tank? Never heard of it and too small to be a stuG.

Following the timeline, were are at #5.. Fortress Italy module: this is the next big thing coming, and work has already begun on it. See #6 below for details! Red Thunder module: winter combat on the East Front... Black Sea module: think Marines, Naval Infantry, and VDV, among other new forces. And new high-tech toys. I want to really flesh out American, Ukrainian, and Russian forces/equipment on all levels before moving on to new nationalities. More Battle Packs.

^ This and a Tiger II is actually a king tiger.

With the help of two daimler II's, I was able to to tackle an early VG command Panther. Usually I try to hide from them and take the green areas and leave them in the fields. Today I wanted to test my luck. It was the most adrenaline rushed 22 minutes I have ever attempted on a battle so far. The panther would move so fast trying to find my guys, it was quit scary, knowing any minute the I could have been blown to oblivion. You would not believe what I called up for the job..

Possibly an armor vulnerability in the Panzer III chasis.

The 116th served in the ETO, entering combat on June 7, 1944 (D+1) at Utah Beach, Normandy under the command of Col. James Shearouse. Batteries were attached to the 2nd, 5th (D Battery), 30th, and 35th Infantry Divisions for much of the campaigns in Northwest Europe. The 116th's 90-mm guns were also attached to the 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion during early August, deployed in an anti-tank role supporting the 654th in attacks against German armor operating in the vicinity of Vic Conde-Sur-Vire, France. They participated in the Battle of the Bulge and in the defense of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany in March 1945. The M1 90mm AA gun, like that depicted below, was their primary weapon.

Light Fog, Cool, Damp, no wind, from SE Got this when trying to view save game