Your Ideal Tank Contest

Breyd1971, on 11 March 2010 - 10:35 AM, said: First off, good legwork in the blueprints department. Excellent entry.
Just wanted to comment on a comment you made
The british stuck with the 2 pounder for a whole other reason as well.
Their pre-war tank doctrine was based on an assault with their cruiser type tanks. In these tanks the gun was actually shouldered by the gunner who functioned as a gyrostabilizer. By training hard on this the british 2 pounder crews were actually skilled enough to fire the gun while moving accurately as if the gun were gyrostabilized.
They tried this with the 6 pounder but found it too heavy for this technique.
On top of that the british army is always the last to adopt certain weapon techniques quoting that it'll ruin certain skills their army prided itself on (an example of more recent times is why it took til the late 80's before the british army would adopt a semi automatic assault rifle..they even adjusted the FN-FAL to fire single shot only, when the entire world was equipped with semi-automatics already)