Jump to content
Please support this forum by joining the SH Patreon ×
Sturgeon's House

ZloyKrolik

Contributing Members
  • Posts

    179
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

Posts posted by ZloyKrolik

  1. From the Sherman thread:

     

    >Indirect Fire Control Gear

    You would think that would be it for fire control equipment, but it’s not, because all Shermans came equipped with the equipment for their tanks to work as impromptu artillery batteries all Sherman based TDs had this gear as well. The US Army had this extra gear installed all the way up to the M60 tanks. During the war, some tank and TD battalions were very good at being artillery; other units didn’t train for it, and were not good.  This was a good way of keeping tanks useful in Italy, and they filled this role a lot there. I do not think this was something many other nations did with their tanks.

     

    I remember setting up range cards for night firing on M60A1s using this gear. Pretty much the same equipment.

×
×
  • Create New...