The main shortcoming of the 3 inch cannon was its APHE round, which was the round most commonly used for engaging tanks. The rear of the turret carried two large counterweights which gave it a distinctive shape. Other ammunition carried throughout its service life included the Armor Piercing Capped Ballistic Cap (APCBC) M62 projectile, High Velocity Armor Piercing (HVAP) M93 shot, and Armor Piercing High Explosive (APHE) 54 rounds of 3-inch ammunition were carried. This gun fired the Armor Piercing M79 shot that could penetrate 3 inches of armor at 1,000 yards at 30 degrees from vertical. It was equipped with a 3-inch (76.2 mm) gun in a new sloped, circular, open-topped turret, developed from the Heavy Tank T1/M6 turret, and mounted on an early-production Medium Tank M4A1 hull.The M10 used a Medium Tank M4A2 chassis (M10A1s used M4A3 chassis) with an open-topped turret mounting a 3" gun M7. The 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage T35 was the prototype of the M10. The idea was to use speed and agility as a defense, rather than thick armor, to bring a powerful self-propelled gun into action against enemy tanks. Though equipped with turrets (unlike most tank destroyers of the day), the typical American design was more heavily gunned, but more lightly armored, and thus more maneuverable, than a contemporary tank.
This led to a requirement for very fast, well-armed vehicles. Tank destroyer units were to be held as a reserve at the corps or army level, and were to move quickly to the site of any enemy tank breakthrough, maneuvering aggressively to destroy enemy tanks.
Tank destroyer units were meant to counter German blitzkrieg tactics. The anti-tank warfare mission was assigned to a new branch, the tank destroyer force.
It was christened the Wolverine by the British, although unlike other vehicle names such as the M4 Sherman, the name was not adopted by American soldiers,who called it TD (a nickname for any tank destroyer in general) beyond its formal designation.US combined-arms doctrine on the eve of World War II held that tanks should be designed to fulfill the infantry support and exploitation roles. Some of those replacements were in fact modified and/or rebuilt from the M10 itself. Despite the introduction of more-powerful types as replacements, it remained in service until the end of the war. tank destroyer of World War II and combined a reasonably potent anti-tank weapon with a turreted platform (unlike the previous M3 GMC, whose gun was capable of only limited traverse). It was numerically the most important U.S. The M10 tank destroyer, formally 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage, M10 was aUnited States tank destroyer of World War II based on the chassis of the M4 Sherman tank. Paint: Unpainted, Unassembled, Kit do not contain paints and glue.
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