From 1936 the Dutch military encouraged DAF to develop this type into the Pantrado 3, a design more closely meeting army specifications for a reconnaissance vehicle, in order to establish a small indigenous armoured vehicle production…
The 76 mm gun M1 was an American World War II–era tank gun developed by the U.S United States Ordnance Department in 1942 to supplement the 75 mm gun on the basic Medium tank M4. It was also used to arm the M18 Hellcat tank destroyer.
Much of the this achievement can be credited to Colonel Johannes Lambert Rikama, who played key role in developing, introducing and implementing the much needed improvements, which allowed Finnish coastal artillery keep its edge for World…
Admitted much of the credit for providing this often vital artillery support goes to heavy coastal artillery batteries, also some of the super-heavy coastal artillery batteries played role of equal significance.
Another report on the Swedish experiences with the Sherman. This is an earlier one, from 1947, and only covers the M4A2 and M4A4. It’s a lot terser than the first one, probably since was an internal report written for the 1946 armor…
While railway guns are now considered obsolete, in their time they were quite common because for quite some time railway was basically the only way to effectively transport super-heavy artillery pieces on land.