The M24 Xiafei light tank, armed with an M6 75mm tank gun, has no advantage in firepower compared to the current contemporaries; In the case of the armor, Xia Fei is even more miserable, although the front steel plate has a large inclination angle of 60 degrees, but it is only 30 mm thick, the side armor is 25.4 mm thick, and the rear armor is only less than 20 mm thick, which is too insufficient for the main anti-tank firepower of this period. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, the weak armor in exchange for superb speed, the M24 Xiafei uses two "Cadillac" 44T24 V8 water-cooled 4-stroke gasoline engines, each with a power of 80.85 kW at 3400 rpm. Such a strong power makes the Xiafei tank have a top speed of 55KM/H, and compared with the German tank that can maintain theoretical speed in ideal road conditions such as highways, the Xiafei tank has a good performance in a variety of road conditions.

It is precisely because of this speed that the M24 Xiafei light tank is defined as a reconnaissance combat vehicle, but even so, it still does not receive much praise from the tank members of the U.S. military and other coalition forces that use this tank.

Among them, the most criticized is, of course, its too fragile armor, different from the Sherman series tanks that were not armored against the advanced German tanks, Xia Fei was unable to use the armor in the face of various enemies, which made the internal members not get enough security, which would directly affect the combat effectiveness.

Compared with the M24, which has a slight failure color, the M10 is a combat vehicle that has been praised by many US troops. It is based on the M4 Sherman medium tank mass-produced by the U.S. military, which makes it easier to produce and can be manufactured quickly and in large quantities. On the contrary, it has become a powerful weapon for the U.S. military in fighting with the German army and the Italian army, especially in the face of its heavy armored units, which is like a firefly of the British, and has become a synonym for anti-tank, although there is still a big distance from the former in anti-tank capabilities.

The M10 Wolverine uses a 75 mm tank gun, although it is a little powerless in the face of Tiger, Leopard and other combat vehicles, but in the face of the German army equipped with a large number of IV. series tanks, it has a pretty good performance, and even in the case of fire, the M10 is equipped with the M7 main gun can sometimes penetrate the IV medium tank, which is quite a difficult achievement in the case of the general lack of anti-tank capabilities in the US military equipment.

However, although the M10 Wolverine is an improved anti-tank destroyer based on the M4 Sherman, in fact, the chassis of the two is not the same, in order to carry the M7, an excellent tank gun, the M10 uses a different open-top turret from the Sherman, and in order to increase stability, the hull has become correspondingly heavy, which makes Sherman's proud reliability not reflected in the M10 Wolverine.

But even if it is a variety of means to balance the main gun, in the end, it is not completely able to build the balance of the M10 Wolverine very well, when the US military uses it, compared with other modified models of the M4 Sherman, the failure rate of the M10 Wolverine is indeed higher, which is inseparable from the fact that it is equipped with the M7 main gun. But even so, this high failure rate is relative to the US military's own tanks, and if you compare it with various German vehicles, the reliability of the M10 Wolverine is still considerable.

Compared with its M4 Sherman, although the M10 Wolverine is equipped with the same power system, it is obviously inferior to the former in terms of speed, but the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the chassis of the M4 still makes the M10 Wolverine a tank destroyer with a good speed.

And finally when it comes to protection, it was said earlier that in order to balance the performance of the tank, it is natural to increase the thickness of the armor while increasing the chassis, which makes the M10 Wolverine better than the M4 Sherman in the hull armor, but because it is equipped with an open-top turret, which makes it not as safe as an all-inclusive turret in urban warfare and other battlefields. Although the U.S. military later added a steel plate on top of the top in consideration of this drawback, it did not have a good defensive capability like the all-inclusive turret.

M4A3 Sherman medium tank, the German army's understanding of this Sherman is mostly reflected in the difference between him and the previous two different armor - different from the previous two M4A1 and M4A2 with a cast hull, the M4A3 uses a welded hull, which strengthens the defensive performance while saving steel materials and man-hours during production, which is the so-called a larger revision, which also makes the M4A3 medium tank able to resist enemy fire in more places.

In terms of firepower configuration, this is still difficult to define, because the M4A3 mentioned by Trode is completely determined by the judgment of the car hull, and Trode has not yet fully figured out the identification of the main gun. No...... It is better to say that the entire German army has not yet fully figured out how many types of Shermans there are in the US army, after all, their types are really complicated to death.

In order to make a more careful distinction, the U.S. military divided the Sherman M4 series into the big category of "A", and then subdivided it into the type "E", that is to say, in order to clearly distinguish a Sherman tank, the specific name should be M4A'X'E'Y' ('X' and 'Y' are the numbers of representative models. ）

(PS: Of course, this name is not only used on the large model of Sherman M4, but also on the subsequent models, the US military is also very wise, and has developed various models of combat vehicles, and many of them also use this set of naming methods.) Of course, the distinction between the 'T' and 'M' at the beginning of the tank model is another matter. ）

The three tanks that Trode faced were all American, and they had their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of capabilities. But without exception, in the face of a squad with equipment strength like Trode, it is difficult for them to resist more fully, and if they use the speed advantage to run away early, there is still a good chance......