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[PROJECT S.N.A.I.L.] T-70

In 1942, advances in armoured warfare caused light tanks in Soviet service to be considered inadequate in terms of protection, firepower, and mobility in comparison to the all-around T-34 medium tank. The only advantage the light tanks present was that small factories could produce these, unable to handle the machining process of the medium and heavy tanks in Soviet service. The two light tanks in service however, the T-50 and the T-60 were inadequate in terms of Soviet doctrine. The T-50 was complicated and expensive to produce, and the T-60 had poor cross-country mobility and a weak 20 mm autocannon.

The T-70 light tank was designed to solve this issue, though it started with a glaring mechanical issue of having two engines, one for each track. The T-70M, a redesigned version that is still called the "T-70", fixes this with one engine on the right side of the hull and normal transmission layout. The turret was also changed in the "M" designation to be easily welded and moved to the left of the hull to compensate for the engine on the right. In the end, it was a 9-ton tank with a 45 mm gun and only had two crew members.

However, at this point of the war, it is increasingly clear that the light tank and the role of an infantry tank were obsolete. The T-70 was also insufficient of coordinating an armoured unit due to the two crew members, forcing the commander in the turret to be a gunner, loader, and radio operator as well. An attempt to remedy this was the T-80 light tank design, which was a stronger T-70 with a two-man turret, but was deemed unnecessary and all light tank production ceased in October 1943, with the remaining ones issued to artillery units or other rear-echelon duties.

Despite its inferiority, the T-70 had a few moments to shine. On July 6, 1943, Lt B.V. Pavlovich of the 49th Guards tank brigade engaged and destroyed four German medium tanks near Pokrovka village. On March 26, 1944, Sgt Alexander Pegov of the Third Guards tank army in a T-70 tank ambushed a Panther tank in a range of 150 to 200 m with APCR rounds, setting it on fire. He immobilized another a moment later. The Panthers blocked a vital road as they were immobilized, and Pegov was decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union.

The T-70 was also used as the platform for the SU-76 Soviet tank destroyer, featuring a wider and longer chassis. The main production variant for this tank destroyer was the SU-76M. The T-70 was also used as a basis for an anti-aircraft platform called the T-90 SPAAG. This was cancelled in 1943 in favour of the ZSU-37 however, which is a repurposed SU-76M chassis.

The T-70 served all the way to 1948 in Soviet inventory. Despite its inferior status, it was a valuable war commodity as it helped fill in roles when the T-34 couldn't be spared to do so. About 8,226 of this vehicle was produced during its production life of 1942 to 1943.

HP: 1950
AMMO: 90 per shell type, (63 bullets in a mag) 945 bullets for the mg
RELOAD SPEED: 4 seconds for the cannon, 8 seconds for the mg
SPEED: 50 km/h forward, 6 km/h backwards
WEAPONS: 45mm cannon, 7.62mm DT machine gun
GUN MOVEMENT: 20 degrees of gun elevation, -6 degrees of gun depression

-heavy dmg type can hurt it
-only 50% resistance to heavy dmg type
-bad reverse speed
-the 45mm cannon doesn't do the most dmg
-4 second reload for the main cannon

APHEBC
APBC
APCR

SHELL DAMAGE: 315
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 92

SHELL DAMAGE: 328
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 0

SHELL DAMAGE: 423
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 0

MACHINE GUN DAMAGE: 10

not much to say again, however this, to the people asking for buffs, please understand that all of these stats come from war thunder that have been converted to ravenfield stats, you will notice that they have low hp/low dmg, HOWEVER, as you can tell by comparing the T-60 and T-70, the hp is increasing, and so is the dmg with the T-28 (1938), so, and if the T-70 ends with almost 2k hp, you can see how a heavily armored tank like the IS-3 or IS-6 will be VERYYY beefy, if i buff the formula (yes, i do math to convert wt stats to rf stats), then in the future you would get a 100k hp T-90M and dmg of 50k, also i do the whole formula like this cause i can't stand the idea of a BT-5 shrugging off a 120mm sabot shot from an abrams, so that's why my BT-5 only has 910 hp (and that happens in wt due to snail code, not cause it's intended), with this, i hope all of you understand and be patient as the tech gets stronger and more armored, we are still in late innerwar and early ww2, there's no real armor YET

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Dexsar1218

T-35

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