The weight of the shell was 43 kg (95 lb) and the charge 18 kg (40 lb), a total of 61 kg (134 lb) for the whole round, which made it difficult to handle and gave it a rate of fire of only two rounds per minute when manually loaded.Meet a truly legendary MMO shooter for your device! Become part of a community of millions of players from across the world, take a vehicle into your first massive tank battle, fight in a 7x7 format, and win! Check out the extraordinary variety of vehicles, maps, modes, and possible strategies that this tank shooter game has to offer! An additional hatch at the back of the turret was added for the automatic ejection of the empty shell casings. This brought the gun breech into position, rammed the round from the loading tray into the breech and then returned the gun to the initial angle. One pilot model, designated T30E1, had a semi-automatic system added to assist the loader in ramming the ammunition into the breech. It could carry a mixed assortment of 34 T35E1 HVAP (high-velocity armor piercing), M112B1 and T29E1 APCBC-HE (armor-piercing capped ballistic cap high-explosive) M107 HE (high explosive), or M110 WP (Smoke) rounds. Even then the gun could only be loaded at limited elevations. The high, rounded edge, turret was needed to accommodate the standing loader and large gun mount. The T30 was fitted with one of the largest guns ever used on an American tank. The loader was assisted by a spring rammer.
The 155 mm (6.1 in) gun fired separate loading (shell and charge) ammunition. Īpart from modifications to fit the different engine, the chassis was the same as the T29.
The T30 pilot models were started in April 1945 and were delivered in 1947. Plans for four pilot heavy tanks were put forward in 1944 two T29 with a 105 mm gun and two T30 with a 155 mm gun. The T30 was designed at the same time as the T29 Heavy Tank. The Heavy Tank T30 was a World War II American tank project developed to counter new German tanks, such as Tiger I, Tiger II, and tank destroyers, such as the Jagdtiger, or Soviet heavy tanks, such as IS-1 or IS-2.
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