Japan, 1944 (593MB download, please be patient!) The Type 4 Ho-Ro was a Japanese Artillery Piece used during the Philippines campaign and the Battle for Okinawa. It suffered from very low production numbers and most were destroyed by superior American artillery. It mounted a 150mm gun which could fire HE, APHE, and HEAT. This allowed […]
Category: Self Propelled Guns
Self Propelled guns are Anti-Tank guns mounted on some sort of mobile body. This allowed these vehicles to have much greater mobility. This mobility allowed formations using these SPGs to swiftly counter breakthroughs, as well as allowing greater firepower than armor when compared to their towed brethren. As WW2 progressed, AT guns became less common in several nations, like the US, who chose to operate SPGs instead in order to stay ahead of the firepower arms race.
Germany 1940-1945 (Please be patient! 375 MB download!) The Stug III did not start out as a Tank Destroyer. It was initially armed with a short barreled infantry support gun in order to serve as an assault gun. Its job was to move up with the infantry and help them deal with anything slowing them […]
United States, 1941-1944 (150MB Download, please be patient!) M3 GMC was the first widely used TD by Tank Destroyer Force. It mounted an M1897, the same gun as on the PaK 97/38. This gun was actually slightly weaker than the gun mounted on the Sherman, the main US tank at the time. Eventually the M3 […]
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Hetzer
Germany 1944-1945 – 355MB Download, please be patient! The Hetzer was a product of desperation. The Nazi government wanted the occupied Czech factories to produce Stug III tanks, but they did not have the crane strength to lift the Stug III and its component parts. However, the factories were producing Panzer 38t light tanks, and […]