[PROJECT S.N.A.I.L.] BT-7 (1937)
The success of the BT light tanks in Soviet service prompted additional upgrades and other developmental projects done on the design to increase its service life. The development led to the final model of the BT light tank series, the BT-7. The tank differed from the older BT-5 tank with a welded hull, redesigned hull front, and a new engine in the Model 1935 version. The Model 1937 version of the BT-7 added a redesigned turret that featured sloping armour.
The tank initially had a canted-ellipse shaped turret mounting the main gun and coaxial machine guns with the focus of allowing the tank to mount different tanks without changing the whole design, which led to the development of two main kinds of BT-7s, the normal variant with a 45 mm 20K gun for anti-armour and an artillery variant called the BT-7A which mounted a 76.2 mm KT-26 howitzer for anti-infantry. The tank was redesigned before it entered production by using the BT-5 turret instead with the main gun and coaxial machine gun still attached, though the concept of swapping to different guns was still in development for the tank. A radio was also installed on the turret as well. The tank had a three-man crew, the commander/gunner and loader in the turret, and the driver in the front. Production started in 1935 but was redesigned in 1937 with a new conical turret that allowed more ammunition to be stored and a machine gun on the rear of the turret. The BT-7 mod. 1937 also had improvements on the drive wheels, gearbox, and tracks by 1938. The BT-7 went on to be produced from 1935 to 1940 for a total unit production of between 2,700 to 5,300 tanks.
HP: 910
AMMO: 188 shells per ammo type, 2394 bullets
RELOAD SPEED: 2.9 seconds for the cannon, 8 seconds for the machine guns
SPEED: 55 km/h forward, 11 km/h backwards
SEATS: 2, driver and rear gunner
WEAPONS: 45mm cannon, two 7.62mm DT machine guns
GUN MOVEMENT: MAIN GUN: 25 degrees of gun elevation, -6 degrees of gun depression REAR GUN: 15 degrees of gun elevation, -15 degrees of gun depression and +/-15 degrees of rotation
-not a lot of hp, heavy dmg type can shred it
-not the strongest gun
-grenades can hurt it
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APBC
SHELL DAMAGE: 315
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 92
SHELL DAMAGE: 328
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 0
MACHINE GUN DAMAGE: 10
from now on my mods won’t have the "breakthrough" behavior on, they will have the "vanguard" one instead, breathrough was supposed to be tanks that would stay back the front lines while they shelled the enemies, allowing the infantry to push safely and giving them supporting fire, however this failed since the bots didn’t attack as often as i thought they did, so i decided to make them all vanguards as the default behavior, vanguard tanks are tanks that will support the infantry in every way, by pushing with them, staying back and taking shots, and even defending a point with them, just like vanilla vehicles do, however, that doesn’t mean variants are not a thing anymore, this mod will still have the assault variant coming tomorrow too, since it worked very well with the bots, pushing the enemy base at full speed and not stopping until it reaches there, also this will be the new thumbnail from now on
DISCLAIMER: i by mistake did the BT-5’s hull, just today i noticed and changed it to the correct hull, therefore the pictures have the old model, but the thumbnail and in game, it has the correct hull
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T-28 (1936)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2721771039
