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T32 heavy tank | |
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Type | Heavy tank |
Place of origin | United States |
Service history | |
Used by | United States |
Wars | none |
Production history | |
Designed | 1945 |
Produced | 1945–1946 |
No. built | 4 |
Variants | T32 (2) T32E1 (2) |
Specifications | |
Mass | 120,000 lb (54,431 kg; 54 t) |
Length | 426.6 in (35.55 ft; 10.84 m) with gun 278.4 in (23.20 ft; 7.07 m) without gun |
Width | 148.3 in (12.36 ft; 3.77 m) |
Height | 110.7 in (9.23 ft; 2.81 m) |
Crew | 5 |
Armor | Turret Front: 298 mm (11.7 in) |
Main armament | T15E2 90mm L/73 gun |
Secondary armament | T32: 1 × Browning .50 in (12.7 mm) caliber heavy machine gun HMG |
Engine | Ford GAC V12, 770 hp (570 kW) |
Power/weight | 14.36 hp/t (10.71 kW/t) |
Transmission | Cross Drive Transmission |
Suspension | torsion-bar |
Operational range | 100 mi (160 km) (road range) |
Maximum speed | 22 mph (35 km/h) (roads) |
The T32 heavy tank was a heavy tank project started by the United States Army to create an appropriate successor to the M4A3E2 Sherman "Jumbo". The US Ordnance board managed the production of four prototypes, the main goal being to have the new tank share many common parts with the M26 Pershing.