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MrVic: US tank designations will take some getting used to for many. The problem lies in The way US equipment wether it be a shovel or a tank was organized and designated. Their system of classifications at that period of time was a mess. Combined with the sheer volume of weapons proposed, designed, prototyped, and produced. In volume no one looked at more options of equipment then the US. Much of which was never taken past design and trials stages. Even worse was the volume of proposals by small companies or private citizens that designed or even prototyped equipment much of these never made it far enough into approval for them to be well documented by the army or govt.
The US typically kept their focus on production and primarily only made changes when they did not interrupt the main production rates of m4's ect. This was due to supplying tanks and parts to many nations. While they had prototypes and trials on many superior tanks to the M4 most never went into main line production. Due to the leading cause of tank loss was maintenance in many cases, by mass producing similar tanks or using similar parts they were able to quickly repair or easily maintain the tanks that were currently fighting.
I have collected for a long time all the information on US tank designs in WW2 let me tell you it's a fast way to get confused and get a headache. One of my favorite weapons designed and put through basic testing was a private design for a 75mm caseless rolling lock gun breach. Which enabled high speed reloads and highly protected ammo storage.
The system was passed over for logistics reasons early in it's assessment so it never received a design designation, but it did have a few obscure patents. Things like this are near impossible to track down much info on today.
In the end we'll learn them was we drive them but its histories fault in the end hehe