Greetings,
here’s the newest from Supertest: 
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“Hey, tankers!
Today, the Concept 1b, a Tier IX American heavy tank enters the Supertest.
“Heavy” it sure is, but it’s agile too and can easily catch up with medium vehicles while boasting crucial values characteristic of tanks of its class.
Accuracy-wise, the testee’s gun is similar to that of the E 50, with an aiming time of 2.1 s and a dispersion of 0.36m/100. With a standard APCR round you can expect to get through 258 mm of enemy armor, and a special HEAT goes even deeper: 310 mm. It will take you 10.2 seconds to fully reload and deliver an average damage of 400 points.
The turret with its frontal armor of 250 mm and gun depression angles of -10/+20 feels right at home on the slopes. Its shape is what you have to consider first and foremost. It’s only well protected at the right angles: an enemy firing at its side or when the turret is turned, well let’s just say, 100mm of side armor won’t protect you much. As for the hull its armor is far from impenetrable, so you’d better wrap it in cotton wool.
Summing up, the smartest way to play the Concept 1b is to take advantage of its dynamics to take key positions on the map while keeping a close eye on where your turret turns.”
damn….that tank looks sexy as hell…but i bet im not able to get it…
What’s with all the tier 9’s?
probably because so many players have to grind in Tier 8 premiums to afford Tier 10 gameplay which causes the MM to not being able to find enough Tier 9’s for Tier 10 matches, if they bring the grind from Tier 8 to Tier 9, probably splitting the grind between both Tiers, then the MM will be able to solve 3 “problems” at once (2 real issues and a bonus for the whiners at Tier 8)
1) give Tier 10’s their matches
2) stop as many Tier 8’s being pulled to Tier 10 matches
3) allow both Tier 8 and 9 premiums to have more matches where they are top Tier
tier 10 to expensive for the majority of players.. some would think the endgame tanks would have some benefit, but they dont.
looks like a m60a2 starship with different gun.
related but not directly, in fact in the Swedish Archives the Concept No.1, No.1A and No.1B are dated from 1968, that puts it after the design of the MBT-70
https://fromtheswedisharchives.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/us-tank-concepts-no-1-1-b-1968/
personally I actually think it is closer to the T95 TOB (tube-over-bar) prototype with hydropneumatic suspension and the “Starship” turret
http://otm-uswot.blogspot.com/2018/03/t95e8-tob-tr.html
10 degrees of depression? Did they enable no clip no the turret?
it was truly designed to allow 10º of gun depression
https://i.imgur.com/s35jWeD.jpg
if their estimate was too optimistic, or not, is a different discussion
Cheers! The joy of paper tanks 😉
yeah 10 degrees looks a little optimisitc. In the diagram, the gun would be hard up against the turret roof. Somthing else I noticed if the turret turns 90 degrees or more the commander is going to be kicking the loaders in the head.
the only member of the crew outside the turret is the driver (can be seen by the traced line)