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T92 HMC - Budget Grade

The 240mm M1 Howitzer started production in 1943 with a total of 315 built by 1945. The huge howitzer was capable of launching a 360 pound (160kg) High Explosive shell 14 miles (23 km)... taking a full minute to reload... First being fielding in operation as super heavy towed artillery pieces by the U.S. 5th Army at the Anzio Beach Head in Italy, January 1944. The weapon's accuracy made it a considerable threat to German artillery, and assisted in dealing with a Railway Gun (Anzio Annie). The 240mm was also actually accurate enough that it could be used to destroy bridges at long range and land shells on top of tanks.

Due to the general positive acceptance of the 240mm M1 in service a motorized carriage was designed to carry it with 115 planned for the invasion of Japan. The construction was ordered in March 1945 with a Pilot vehicle ready in July, however only 5 were built (Plus two 8 inch carriers) before the war ended with Japan's surrender and the project was canceled.

The vehicle in question, built to carry the 240mm M1, was the T92 Howitzer Motor Carriage based on the T26E3 Pershing. An Extra road wheel was added to the back of each track and the hull lengthened, it featured a massive bucket to keep the vehicle in place while firing and a large reinforced barrel clamp to keep the gun locked down in transit. Despite only having 25mm of armor, the vehicle had a power to weight ratio of 8.1 with a top speed of 24kph...

While the T92 never saw service, the 240mm M1 continued to see use into the Korean war, where 12 were sent to the front lines in order to deal with fortifications standard artillery could not handle. On May 1st, 1953 when the weapons were deployed, the first shell fired by the 213th Field Artillery Battalion landed on a targeted hilltop nicknamed "The Donut". The first shot was mostly intended to be ceremonial... except the refrigerator packed with high explosive landed on an ammo dump inside the Chinese compound resulting in an explosion taking off part of the hill. An Arial Observer was quoted saying Holy Sh*t while watching the shell impact.

While Information on the SPG itself is limited, There is a good chunk of information available on the 240mm M1 It was to carry.

This PDF has some of information on it an several other artillery systems.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a510939.pdf

The Budget T92 is a machine built for multiverse. Its 196 blocks total allowing multiple people to be using It or other budget tanks that are balanced between each-other for combat. The T92 is a poorly armored and not very mobile with a higher powered x5.5 artillery gun. While it has superior range over other artillery and can keep itself further away from combat, it has a harder time arcing shots over cover.

Vehicle Stats :

Top speed

41 kph

Weight

137.57u

Armament

240mm 5.5x Howitzer

Hull Traverse Speed (Degrees / s)

26

Gun traverse Speed (Degrees / s)

10

Gun Depression / Elevation (Degrees)

0 / 65

This Tank is part of The 3rd Empire's Advent Event for the 2020 Christmas season. One of twenty five workshop items unveiled daily through the 1st to the 25th. Remember to stop in daily to see what unholy war machine our engineers have for you to take home for the whole village to enjoy~

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