[Iris7]

This interesting machine, with which I am not familiar - thanks, SAM - is said to weigh 53 tons (probably short tons, 2,000 pounds to the ton, not long or metric) with 7 tons of add on armor, total 60 tons. Horsepower is said to be 550, and fully adequate.

This is about 8.11 horsepower per ton. As I have said before this is enough in almost all circumstances if protection is adequate.

Nice to see a proper gun.

Armor should have been much better. WWII Armor Piercing Capped can be defeated readily by the correct air spaced armor, which was well understood in those days. Germans used it on the PzKw III and IV as I recollect, as the sides were thin.

Modern stuff could have protected a Sherman against King Tiger fire without any increase in weight at all. (I think!!)

[U S Army EOD]

Buy the movie, "The Tanks Are Coming". They have the M26's in that movie.

[SAMWolf]

I never heard about the Super Pershing before this either. Too bad the Pershing showed up so late in the war, it may have saved a lot of tankers in france and Germany in 44.