M4 rof with 90mm anyone? Like a 90mm Autloader that doesnt end.

Hell look at the 152mm Derps they have wierd pens as well.

They used to have from Vertical tests. I know a lot of the early 50`s tests with other countries were.

Anyways I know the T123 had massive pen and even its “Bad Accuracy” was fairly reliable at 1k meters and just wasn`t enough at 1500.

But IMO its hard to imagine a 152mm getting less than 300mm HEAT, I mean the bigger the round the more/hotter jet. 105`s were al;ready at 300+.

M551 Sheridan

M409 HEAT
355mm at any range
680 m/s

So how could the older one be that far back?

“Also we are speaking about light tanks here, not tanks that should damage heavys either frontally or in the side from the first beginning.”
…I’m sorry, WHAT? Your average T8 heavy for example has *well* under 100mm of side armour; why the FUCK should lights not be able to plough through that just like everything else? (Half the T10s are no better, and a few are actually *worse* – 50B and its 30mm cardboard flanks most notably.)
Orite.
Because they keep outmaneuvering and killing your stupid ass and we can’t have that can we? *eyeroll*

As far as T8 Med guns go, maybe parse the techtree a bit more? I just did; *five out of nine* (not countring premiums because sod them) have over 200mm average pen, in a few cases by quite a large margin too. And RoF is basically an arbitrary balance parameter WG sets to whatever the fuck playtesting and post-introduction aggregate statistics suggest is appropriate anyway.

FYI I’d be a lot more willing to take you seriously if you didn’t reliably talk out of your ass like this.

“The problem with making all tanks more MBT like…”
Newsflash – that’s exactly what they gradually converged towards postwar for diverse sound practical reasons. Hell, the archetypical forerunner of the type, the T-54, was accepted into service already in *’45*.
Makes the phenomenom kinda difficult to avoid.