War Thunder - Potential US Tank Destroyers

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With the news that American tank destroyers soon to be added, I decided to do a quick episode looking at some potential American tank destroyers, such as the M6 GMC, M10 Wolverine, M18 Hellcat, M36 Jackson and many more!

Tank destroyers in this episode:
M3 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) (Added in Update 1.67 "Assault")
M6 (GMC)
M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage (Added in Update 1.67 "Assault")
M10 Wolverine (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
M18 Hellcat (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
M36 Jackson (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")
M50 Ontos (Added in Update 1.71 "New E.R.A.")
M56 Scorpion (Added in Update 1.63 "Desert Hunters")
T55E1 (GMC) (Added in Update "Hot Tracks" as part of Battle Pass Season II "Steel Centurion)
T28 Superheavy tank (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory" as a premium)
T95 Tank destroyer (Added in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory")

"Black cat" page:
http://warthunder.com/en/news/2922-article-series-weapons-of-victory-m18-black-cat-en

Patch 1.49 rumour thread:
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/214069-patch-149-rumor-roundup/

T-28-T-95 forum thread:
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/72056-t-28t-95-super-duper-ultra-galactic-heavy-tank/page-23

Information citations:
Hoggs, I.V. and Weeks, J. (1980) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Military Vehicles. London, Quarto Publishing Limited, Pages 160-170

http://mr-home.staff.shef.ac.uk/hobbies/ww2pen3.pdf (Document gives information on gun penetration from various books, used to find information for the M8 HEAT shell (M66)

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/390746.pdf (Document on testing for the gun used on the T-95, but not too helpful unfortunately)

Picture citations:
M3 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AM3_75mm_gun_motor_carriage.jpg
By United States, Office of War Information. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Gun_Motor_Carriage

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A75mm_M3_GMC.jpg
This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

M6 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_Gun_Motor_Carriage

M10 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M10_tank_destroyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-inch_Gun_M1918

M18 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Hellcat

M36 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M36_tank_destroyer
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/M36%E9%A9%85%E9%80%90%E6%88%B0%E8%BB%8A

T55E1 Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T55E1_Gun_Motor_Carriage

M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AM8GMC-Saumur.0004z89h67.jpg
By User:Fat yankey (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

M50 Ontos:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ontos.jpg
This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

T-28 Super Heavy tank/T-95 105mm Gun Motor Carriage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T28_Super_Heavy_Tank
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AT28_Super_Heavy_Tank.jpg
By Randen Pederson (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

M56 Scorpion anti-tank gun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M56_Scorpion
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AM56_Scorpion.jpg
By Greg Goebel (Flickr: Ywm56_1b) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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