/k/ - Weapons

Take an M4 Sherman

Stick either a 60mm HVMS, Cockerill 90mm, or F1 105mm on it since it can actually accept all of those without significant alterations and in some cases it puts less strain on the vehicle

Slab some ERA or CAGE on it

Update it with some modern electronics i.e. IR, new optics and maybe an APS

Fix it up with a new engine

Bang you've got a decent Tank for Kebab Removal. Basically what I'd wager most suggestions are going to boil down to.

Any WWII-era tank armor is going to be worthless against modern anti-tank weapons. Thus, any armor beyond 'that necessary to protect against small arms' is going to be useless.

I choose the M-18 Hellcat.

>fastest thing on treads during the war

>still pretty fast even when compared to modern AFVs

>radial engine will run on regular gas

Modifications

>obligatory ERA or slat armor

>obligatory modern optics, radio, et al

>replace the main gun with a low velocity gun-mortar that can also launch wire-guided missiles

>>537933

Probably the real question is why not the M24 Chaffee though? Wouldn't it be a better choice? A lot more you could do with the chassis.

>>538347

>having to rip the entire tank open to access the transmission

>having to rip all the road wheels off along with the entire tank open to repair the running gear and suspension

>not being able to use bridges

>falling for the krupp steel meme

>>537935

Does the M24 really count if it's still in active service in Taiwan and I think the Netherlands? Though I do agree its a much more sound choice than the locust because of the three man turret and more generous turret ring. I would however modernize the Chaffee with that hyper velocity 75mm gun and crazy fire control system used on the HSTVP along with a single, more powerful possibly supercharged petrol engine in place of the original tandem engines hooked up to one transmission. After that I suppose you could put on some modern air bursting smoke projectors and ERA for defense. Possibly cut out the radio operator/hull gunner for more fuel and ammo because modern stabilizers make him obsolete. or leave him in because the HSTVP fire control system would make him and everyone else in the vehicle a backup gunner anyway

While I'll use the Hellcat for my build, any resonably fast vehicle will do.

>take Hellcat

>rip the turret out

>mount a Vasilek

>hook up a small trailer to carry extra ammo

>shoot (pomfpomfpomfpomf)

>scoot

Anything extra would just be smoke screen launchers, or maybe one of those fancy missile launch detectors. Maybe stow an ATGM somewhere for if a tank wanders into sight.

>>537766

>still pretty fast even when compared to modern AFVs

<It was the fastest American tracked armored vehicle until the turboshaft-powered M1 Abrams main battle tank appeared decades later. Even then, most sources list the M1 Abrams with a standard operating speed of only 45 mph (governed speed; maximum possible speed is much higher), leaving the Hellcat with a superior paved-road top operating speed.

The Hellcat is sanic fast.

Probably a comet with an L7 105mm gun instead of the 77mm gun, some chobham 2 armour plates as well as bazooka plates and standoff armour.

Obviously with modern IR optics and all that good shit too. Maybe a TOW missile launcher or something mounted on top, I'm a brainlet when it comes to missiles.

>>537550

Call me lazy but there's really no need to try to fit 70+ year old tanks which are outdated and severely lacking in both offense and defense in modern warfare when any tankette/light tank from that era could be easily converted into a reconnaissance tank like the German Weasel.

In my case, take any tankette from the era, replace the engine with hybrid motors, or just make it run on an electric motor, and slap on a TOW, 20mm Auto-Cannon, or any other modern weapon systems. The Germans slapped on Panzerschreks on to captured Universal Carriers; the sky is the limit for what kind of roles they can take.

Sorry for the shitty last picture

>>538337

M24 is a much better chassis though as it allows you to do more with it over the M22. Sometimes it's really not all about firepower or armour but what the actual chassis itself.

>>538363

>>538380

Think Norway may still have it in service with a 90mm Gun.

>ctrl+f

>StuG

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