Australian World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder

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In this 14th episode of my series looking at World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder, we take a look at Australian tanks from the World War 2 period!  So join me as we take a look at some of the various tank designs from Australia's indigenous tank programme, from various attempts to mount field guns to the actual AC IV tank design as it existed in prototype form,  as well as some SPGs and even an armoured car!  Support me at ⬇️ ☕Buy me a Coffee➡️ buymeacoffee.com/Toreno  Social Media ⬇️ 🦋Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social 🌍Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 📸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 🐘Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social 🧵Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170  Sources ⬇️ Australian War Memorial (AWM). (1942) Demonstration of AFVs at Fisherman's Bend. Available at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F07029 (Accessed: 1 February 2026).  Australian War Memorial (AWM). (1945) Churchill and Sherman Tanks (Tank Trials). Available at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F07352 (Accessed: 6 February 2026).  Cecil, M. (2021) Fire! The 25-Pounder in Australian Service. Trackpad Publishing.  National Archives of Australia. Available at: https://www.naa.gov.au/ (Accessed: 4 February 2026).  Tank Encyclopedia. Available at: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ (Accessed: 4 February 2026).  The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum. The Australian Self-Propelled 25-pounder Spear-thrower (YERAMBA!). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztnrtgmpzNc.  War Thunder. In-game stats.  Songs used⬇️  Sun Machine One by Loopop  🎮 Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  Vehicles in this episode⬇️  A7V "Mephisto" Mark IV Heavy Tank Vickers Medium Mark II Vickers MK VIA light tank AC 1 "Sentinel" AC 1 Sentinel armed with L/27 25 pounder/L/34 25 pounder AC 2 AC 3 "Scorpion" AC 3 "Thunderbolt" AC 4 Prototype Australian Experimental Light Tank (AELT) Matilda II with Dozer Blade Matilda II "Frog" Flame Tank 2 pdr. Carrier (Bren Carrier armed with a 40mm 2 pounder) Yeramba Rhino Heavy Armoured Car Captured Italian M11/39s Captured French Renault R35s Matilda IIs M3 Grants and M3 Lees M4A1 and M4A2 Shermans Chuchill MK IVs, V and VIIs  Australian Tanks in the Interwar Period: 00:00 AC 1 "Sentinel" and the start of the Australian Tank Programme: 02:26 AC 1 Armed with 25 pounder: 04:10 AC III "Thunderbolt": 09:08 AC IV Prototype armed with 2 x 25 pounder guns: 12:13 AC IV Prototype: 14:44 Foreign Tanks in Australian Service: 20:07 Australian Tank Destroyers and SPGs: 21:09 Australian Armoured Car: 25:09  #warthunder #warthundertanks #australia #australian #ww2 #sentinel #thunderbolt #yeramba

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00:00Continuing my series on World War 2 tanks that need adding to War Thunder, we now come to

00:04Australian tanks. Now I did look at Australian tanks many years ago, and thankfully Gaijin have

00:10added many of these tanks in the intervening years, albeit as premium and event tanks. But

00:16there are still a few Australian tanks and other vehicles that still need adding to War Thunder.

00:21So just a brief bit of background on Australian tank development. When Australia first entered

00:26the war on the 3rd of September 1939, there was no domestic tank industry, and indeed its heavy

00:33industry was more limited than that of the UK or Canada, which makes sense because it has a

00:37population just shy of 7 million at the start of the war, and this on the face of it would make

00:43Australia a rather unlikely country to develop tanks. Despite this, Australia technically did

00:48have some familiarity with tanks, starting in World War 1 when Australian troops had managed to

00:54capture a German tank named Mephisto, one of just 20 A7Vs that the Germans would produce in World War 1.

01:02With this being shipped back to Australia in 1919, where it still survives to this day,

01:07though of course this was a trophy tank and was never actually used by the Australians.

01:12On a more practical level however, in 1929 Australia did acquire four modified British

01:18medium Mark II tanks, with these being armed with a 47mm 3-pounder gun in a turret, along with five

01:257.7mm thick as machine guns. With the tank being operated by five crew, and having a top speed of

01:3215mph or 24kmh, but a limited armour thickness maxing out at just 6.25mm, making it very vulnerable

01:40to enemy fire, but this would still make for a good starting Australian tank at 1.0. However,

01:46these four tanks would be the only Australian tanks in service until 1939, when 10 British Mark VI A

01:54light tanks would arrive in Australia, with these being armed with one 50k Vickers machine gun,

01:59which has a maximum penetration in game of 24mm at 100m, while a 7.7mm Vickers machine gun is also

02:06carried, with three crewmen in the tank, with it having a top speed of 35mph or 56kmh, and a maximum

02:14armour thickness of 14mm, and again this could be added at 1.0, or at least given an Australian

02:21camouflage scheme should this be added as a British tank in the British tech tree. Thus, Australia would

02:27enter the war with just 14 tanks available, with the four medium tanks being old and obsolete, and the

02:3310 light tanks only useful for reconnaissance. Without the ability to produce tanks of their own,

02:39Australia would have to rely on deliveries of British and later American tanks, but with these

02:45nations having their own problems, it would take a while for tanks to be delivered in large numbers.

02:50Thus in 1940, work would begin on an Australian designed tank, with a hope for it to be ready by

02:55the end of 1941, with Australia requesting a tank design expert to be sent to Australia from Britain,

03:02and subsequently a Colonel W.D. Watson from the Royal Artillery was sent out from the 4th of October

03:081940, and on 11th of November 1940 the final specifications would be laid out, with Watson

03:15placed in charge of designing the new tank when he arrived in December 1940, having stopped off in

03:20America to observe tank developments there. This would result in the first Australian designed tank,

03:25the AC-1 Sentinel, with a prototype ready by January 1942, which was a remarkable achievement

03:32considering Australia had never designed or built a tank before, and the whole was cast as a single

03:38piece. Again, a big achievement for Australian industry, and 65 AC-1s would be built by June 1943,

03:46meaning Australia would have tanks available to fight against Japan, who had now entered the war.

03:50Now luckily for us, the AC-1 was added to War Thunder back in 2021, albeit as an event tank,

03:57being added at tier 2 battle rating 3.0, and while I don't have it unlocked, it does seem to have

04:02decent armour, a good 2 pounder 40mm gun, and good top speed, making it a decent tank in game.

04:10However, even as the first AC-1s were being built, it was seen that the 2 pounder, while able to deal

04:16with Japanese tanks, was now obsolete against modern German tanks, and that the 57mm 6 pounder gun

04:22would also be obsolete before long, with the 76.2mm 17 pounder being the preferable weapon to upgrade

04:30to. But as this was not available at the time, it was decided to mount the 87.6mm 25 pounder gun

04:37as a stopgap measure as this gun was being produced in Australia at the time. So that brings us to our

04:44first completely new Australian tank, which is the Sentinel AC-1E2 prototype, which was the second

04:50Sentinel prototype that was built, and this was used to test the 25 pounder. Now we don't have the 25

04:57pounder in game, so we will have to use Gaijin's armour penetration calculator and historical records

05:02to determine its effectiveness, but we also need to determine what 25 pounder was used.

05:07As it turns out, this was not quite as easy as I first expected. You see, Tank Encyclopedia says a

05:13length 27 25 pounder was fitted in June 1942, which solves that issue quite easily, but according to the

05:21book Fire, the 25 pounder in Australian service, a longer barrel length 34 gun was fitted in September 1942,

05:30using quote, the same cradle and cylinder block under the barrel as previously used with the

05:35length 27 barrel in June July, unquote, which sounds like both guns were fitted to the same AC-1,

05:42but regardless with the rest of the stats being similar aside from the gun, this potentially gives

05:47us some more options. Now according to the aforementioned book, the length 34 gun as expected

05:52has a much better performance. Again quote, the average muzzle velocity was 656 meters a second,

05:59an increase of 138 meters a second over a new mark 2 slash 1 length 27 caliber barrel, unquote.

06:08Now on the face of things, this would make it a fair bit more powerful than a regular 25 pounder,

06:12but in fairness, they seem to be comparing the AP shell fired with a supercharge

06:17and supplemental charge to the highest muzzle velocity of the HE shell with a supercharge,

06:22which is 518 meters a second, while the AP shell could reach 563 meters a second with a supercharge,

06:30so it's more like a 93 meters a second increase, which is still good to be fair, but not as great

06:35as it might first appear. Putting this into Gaijin's penetration calculator, for the length 27 this

06:40means that the AP shell weighing 20 pounds or 9.07 kilograms has an armor penetration at point blank

06:46range of around 87 to 96 millimeters, so similar to the 2 pounder though with a larger shell.

06:53Now I've also found a firing table that claims an 87 millimeters penetration at a 30 degree angle,

07:00so it's possible that the shell is actually even more powerful than what Gaijin's calculator suggests,

07:05while the length 34's penetration is given as around 110 to 120 millimeters in Gaijin's calculator,

07:12which is a much better performance and is far better than the best shell available to the 2 pounder.

07:17Of course it could also fire a 25 pound or 11.3 kilogram HE shell, but these would contain less

07:24than 1 kilogram of explosive, so would be unlikely to be much of a threat to enemy tanks, but would be

07:29used for against unarmored or lightly armored vehicles, and a smoke shell was also available,

07:35and interestingly a HES shell was also developed for the post war period, but this probably shouldn't

07:40be used by this tank as it was retired by the end of world war 2, and unfortunately while a HEAT

07:45shell was in development, this was never finished, leaving us with just 3 types of shell to use.

07:51As for the tank itself, the only other change is the turret being enlarged and a modified recoil system

07:57fitted, but the rest of the stats should be broadly the same as the regular sentinel ac1,

08:02having a maximum of 64 millimeters of armor for the hull, top speed of 30 miles per hour or 48

08:08kilometers an hour, and 5 crew. In game I could see the length 27 version working at 3.0, and the

08:15length 34 at 3.3, as these are essentially the same tank as the ac1 but fitted with a much better armament,

08:23being capable of dealing with more heavily armored tanks, though likely with a worse fire rate than

08:28the 2 pounder, but either way it would be nice to see these unusual prototypes in war thunder.

08:34In real life this was only used as a test bed for firing tests, and these seem to have been successful,

08:39and there were plans to produce an ac1 with the 25 pounder as the ac1b, though this never actually

08:45happened, while the ac1a was intended to be armed with a 57 millimeter 6 pounder gun, though it appears that

08:51this wasn't even tested, and instead work would move on to developing an improved tank design.

08:58So you might expect this new tank design to be the ac2, but this was actually a simplified design of

09:03the ac1 with thinner armor that's never progressed beyond the drawing board. So the next australian

09:09tank design is actually the ac3 thunderbolt, although there was also an ac3 scorpion which was to be a

09:15standard ac1 tank with a pratt and whitney radio engine, but again this didn't progress beyond

09:21drawings. The thunderbolt was again to be armed with the 25 pounder gun, but this time the regular

09:27length 27 version, meaning its armor penetration at the point blank range has gone from what Gaijin's

09:32calculator suggests is 110 to 120 millimeters to around 85 to 95 millimeters, though again like i said

09:40there is a firing table suggesting 87 millimeters at a 30 degree angle. So this is still pretty good,

09:46but now more on par with the 2 pounders best APC BC shell, which penetrates 89 millimeters at point

09:51blank range. Aside from this, the whole machine gun position was removed to make room for more ammunition,

09:58though the car axle machine gun remains in place. The engine meanwhile is the Perrier Cadillac, which is

10:04essentially the same three V8 engines of the ac1, but in a different arrangement, more like that on the

10:11Chrysler A57 multibank, which took up less space and boosted the power output to 395 horsepower with

10:18high octane petrol, though the top speed should remain the same at 30 miles per hour or 48 kilometers an hour,

10:25but due to having the same weight, this should give a decent boost to the vehicle's maneuverability.

10:30Lastly, the armor still maxes out at around 64 millimeters, though with some minor differences

10:36such as an enlarged mantlet, and the crew is now reduced to 4 due to losing the whole machine gun,

10:42which in-game is a disadvantage as it means the tank can now be knocked out easier due to crew losses.

10:48In-game, I could see the AC3 being added at 3.3, being similar to the AC1 in many respects,

10:54but with a technically better gun and better mobility, as well as better protection due to the

10:59removal of the whole machine gun, and it would be nice for this rather important step in Australian

11:03tank development to be added to War Thunder. In real life, 400 AC1s were ordered on the 27th May 1942,

11:12before the gunnery trials with the 25 pounder on the AC1 on the 29th June 1942 had even taken place.

11:19With the pilot model being ready by January 1943, and by May 1943, 146 holes and 106 turrets had been cast,

11:29showing that production was being undertaken at a fast pace, and again remember Australia hadn't

11:34even built tanks just a few short years earlier, so again this was a massive achievement for the country.

11:40Unfortunately for us, the one pilot is all that would be built, which still survives to this day at the

11:46Trelaw Resource Centre at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

11:50However, enough components from the AC3 project survived in storage and at various firing ranges,

11:57for the Melbourne Tank Museum to build their own AC3, but that museum closed in 2006,

12:03with the tank being auctioned off to a private collector, though recently it was announced that

12:07this tank was going to be restored to running condition, so that is something we will have to keep an eye on.

12:13So the AC3 would ultimately not go into service, but there was a fourth project, the AC4,

12:19which was intended to fit the 17 pounder. The prototype for this was based on the E1,

12:25which was the first AC1 prototype and work steadily progressed with the turret ring increased from 54

12:31to 64 inches, and a new larger turret was fitted, but there wasn't any 17 pounders available to actually

12:39test if the recoil from the powerful gun could be absorbed by the tank. Now this was a bit of an

12:43issue and could have delayed the project, as the next most powerful gun that was being tested on a

12:48tank, the 25 pounder, while quite powerful, wasn't equal to the recoil force of a 17 pounder. However,

12:56the Australians managed to come up with a workaround. Basically, if one 25 pounder wasn't enough,

13:01what about two? This leads us to this double-barrelled monstrosity, being armed with two

13:06standard 25 pounder guns, which actually gives 20% more recoil force than the 17 pounder, and as a

13:13reminder, the standard 25 pounder can penetrate 87mm at a 30 degree angle, at point blank range.

13:21And as there are two of these guns, you can either fire them simultaneously to absolutely mess up any

13:26enemy tank that you can penetrate, or fire them one at a time, meaning that one will be reloading while

13:31the other is still available to provide covering fire. So this seems like a brilliant tank to have

13:36in game, but there is one possible problem. Basically, the two 25 pounders took up most of the space in

13:42the turret, to the point that when doing firing tests, they had to fire the gun via a lanyard.

13:48Now to be fair, it's possible that there technically is room within the turret for at least one crew member,

13:54though of course during the firing tests, it wasn't required for someone to be in there,

13:57so it's probably just safer to use the lanyard. But if there is technically room, it might possibly

14:03work in game, though maybe with just one or two crew members present, which would bring the crew

14:08down to three or four, with a driver, whole machine gunner, and a commander, and maybe loader in the

14:13turret, and of course I suspect that the reload rate is going to be severely impacted. Meanwhile,

14:18the rest of the stats should be about the same as the AC1, with 64mm of armour,

14:23and a top speed of 30mph or 48kmh. This could probably work at 3.3 to 3.7,

14:30as the two guns would make this a deadly tank, but again this would no doubt have a horrible reload

14:36time, and its armour would be more vulnerable at the higher battle ratings. But I think this would

14:41be a great event or premium tank to have in game. So in real life the two 25 pounders were used for

14:47firing tests simulating the 17 pounder in October 1942, but within a month a domestically produced

14:5317 pounder would be delivered for testing, and this was fitted to the tank, becoming the first

14:59allied tank to be fitted with such a weapon, barring the A30 challenger that received one in August 1942,

15:05in the UK, and firing tests were successfully carried out on the 11th of November 1942.

15:12So you might be thinking that there isn't really anything else to cover with the AC4,

15:16as we already have it in game, and that is technically true as it was added as a premium

15:21tank at the same time as the rest of the British tech tree all the way back in 2015,

15:26as part of the 1.55 Royal armour update. However, as you might have noticed,

15:31the hull is based off of the AC3 Thunderbolt, and is sort of how it was intended to go into production,

15:38but the production never actually occurred, meaning that the prototype based on the E1

15:43is the version we should have in game. Now obviously this would work very similarly to the in game

15:48Sentinel AC4, but with the less powerful engine of the AC1, and worse protection due to retaining the

15:55hull machine gun position. Though the machine gun isn't fitted on the prototype and is just an open

16:00hull, but does ruin the almost fully sloped frontal hull of the in game AC4, while still retaining a

16:06maximum armour thickness of 64mm, a 5 man crew, and a top speed of 30mph or 48kmh. In game I would

16:15actually like to see this added as a regular vehicle, probably at 4.7 to 5.0 between the

16:21Sherman Firefly and Challenger, as this is less protected and a little bit less mobile than the

16:26premium version, but has an extra crew member to boost survivability, and overall I think it would

16:32be great to have the actual AC4 prototype as it existed in real life. And honestly if the in game

16:38version wasn't a premium I would probably recommend it getting the same treatment as the Japanese R2Y2

16:44jets, and some of the German tanks like the Tiger II 105, Panther II and Corellian.

16:49So in real life Australia seem to have a whole bunch of decent tank designs, and the will and ability to

16:55produce them, which was a massive achievement for the country. However, as impressive as all of this

17:01was, and as dire as the situation may have been when development started in 1940, by 1943 the original

17:08Sentinel AC1 was obsolete, and the AC3 and 4, while extremely impressive tanks, were still in the prototype

17:15stage and likely wouldn't start mass production until late 1943 at the earliest, and it's possible

17:20that it wouldn't actually start until 1944. And the AC4, while well suited for fighting German tanks,

17:27wouldn't have the opportunity as Australian ground forces were pulled back to the Pacific in January

17:311943, and so this tank would just be massive overkill against Japanese tanks. The situation with regards to

17:39Japan had also lessened, with the threat of any Japanese invasion of Australia long since passed,

17:45and foreign tanks from America and Britain were now available in great numbers.

17:49With Australia at the beginning of 1943 having 304 British Matilda Mark IIs, while 260 M3 light tanks,

17:58757 M3 medium tanks, and 138 Marmon Harrington light tanks from America were available,

18:05for a total of 1459 tanks. At the same time only 4 AC1s were available for immediate service.

18:14Thus support for a domestic Australian tank program began to wane, and before long the Americans started

18:20to put pressure on Australia to abandon the tank program and focus on improving logistics within

18:26Australia itself to cope with the increasing allied troops in the country, with the idea that M4 Shermans

18:33would be sent instead to replace these Australian built tanks. So ultimately on the 14th of October 1943,

18:40the Australia cruiser tank program was halted, and an order for 310 Shermans placed. It's easy to

18:47understand why this cancellation came about in the short term, what with the amount of tanks available,

18:52and the prospect of even more arriving, but as it turns out only 2 Shermans would be sent for testing,

18:58and Australia had to soldier on with the old Matildas, with their 2 pounder gun that was ill suited for

19:03anti-infantry work, as well as the older but still decent M3 medium tanks, and eventually Australia

19:10resorted to ordering 500 Churchill tanks. Though with the war starting to come to an end, there was

19:15less of a need for these tanks, and this order was eventually reduced to just 51. In hindsight,

19:21it seems that the AC3 at the very least would have made for a great Australian tank well suited for

19:26the conditions that they were fighting in, able to take out infantry and tanks alike, and perhaps Australia

19:32could have had it's own small home grown tank industry, serving Asia and the Pacific in the

19:37aftermath of WW2. That said, it's tank development program wasn't a complete waste, as no doubt the

19:44program and the techniques used for producing tanks did wonders for Australia and it's industry,

19:49while Colonel Watson would return to the UK, where his knowledge of fitting the 17 pounder to the

19:54Sentinel would garner a lot of interest, and would be instrumental in the creation of the Sherman

20:00Firefly, meaning that the Australian tank program did go on to have a massive effect on British tank

20:06development. There would also be modifications of some of the foreign tanks that Australia used,

20:11like the Matilda Mark II being fitted with flamethrowers and dozer blades, but the dozer

20:16blades could just be a modification, and the flamethrowers unfortunately replaced the main armament,

20:22making them wholly unsuited for adding to the game. Australia did also use a few other foreign tanks

20:28that haven't been mentioned, including captured Italian M1139s, French Renault R35s, and of course

20:35many other British and American tanks, including at least one Crusader that was sent to Australia,

20:41but these could be represented through Australian camouflage schemes on existing vehicles if needed.

20:47So that's more or less it for Australian tanks, though there was also the Australian Experimental

20:52Light Tank Programme or AELT, but it seems to have never been armed and the whole project was terminated

20:58after its first test run, but it does sort of still exist in a very run down fashion, and if it had

21:04gotten a bit more development, it might have been suitable for adding to the game. So moving on from

21:10Australian tanks, we actually have a couple of examples of Tank Destroyer or SPG type vehicles,

21:17starting with this LP2 armed with the 40mm 2-pounder gun. Now the LP2 or Local Pattern 2 was basically an

21:24improved version of the LP1, which was itself a copy of a Bren Carrier No. 2 Mark 1 that had been

21:31imported from the UK in 1940, and the Australians mounted the 2-pounder, turning this vehicle into a

21:37pretty decent tank destroyer. With the 2-pounder in-game having a penetration of 77mm at 500m,

21:45with its solid shot APCBC shell, which is a pretty good penetration, while its APHE shell

21:51penetrates 49mm at the same distance, but unfortunately this only has 21g of TNT equivalent

21:58explosive mass, while a Bren gun was also supposed to be carried. Unfortunately, armour is very light,

22:04maxing out at just 10mm for the vehicle itself, and I doubt the gun shield is much better, and it is of

22:10course open topped, leaving the 4 crew extremely vulnerable to enemies, though it should be fairly

22:16easy to conceal due to its small size. Lastly, the top speed is 20mph or 32kmh, which isn't too bad,

22:24but certainly isn't the fastest top speed at the low tiers. In-game I could see this being added at

22:291.0 to 1.3, having an extremely good gun, but being very vulnerable, but I could see this having some

22:36success in the early tiers in the ambush role, and I think this would make for a very good starting tank

22:41destroyer in the British tech tree. In real life the prototype would undergo trials in February to

22:46March 1941, and subsequently 200 of these vehicles would be ordered, the first being delivered in May 1942,

22:54however these vehicles ultimately never saw combat, instead being used as training vehicles in Australia.

23:01We do also have at least one example of an SPG type vehicle in the form of the Yuramba,

23:06the name being derived from an aborigine word for an instrument that was used for throwing spears,

23:12and this is technically a cold war vehicle, but stats wise is very much a world war 2 vehicle,

23:18and this came about in July 1949, when approval was given to convert an M3 Grant chassis

23:24into an SPG, with firing trials carried out in December 1949, and due to the success of these

23:30firing trials, in February 1950 approval was given to convert a further 13 M3 A5 Grant to this

23:37configuration. So the main armament is the 25 pounder, which has a penetration at a 30 degree

23:44angle of 74mm at 500m, when using a supercharge, and if a supercharge and supplemental charge is used,

23:52this could actually go up to 81mm, which would make this a fairly deadly weapon to most low tier enemies,

23:59and it could also fire smoke and HE shells, while a HES shell was developed for the post war period,

24:04and might be possible to add, and the gun itself has an elevation of up to 40 degrees,

24:10and a horizontal traverse of 20 degrees each way, while two 7.7mm Bren guns could also be used for

24:17closing defence. Armor as to be expected isn't the best, maxing out at around 38mm, while of course the

24:23fighting compartment is open topped, making this a very easy target for aircraft, while the top speed

24:29should remain at 25 miles per hour or 40kmh, and a crew of 6 manned the vehicle. In game I could see the

24:36Yuramba working at around 2.3, between the Daimler Mark II and the Archer, giving us a decent vehicle

24:42with a good armament at the lower tiers, and would be more user friendly for new players than the

24:47Archer with its backwards facing armament, and it would be nice for this lesser known Australian

24:52vehicle to be added in game. In real life only 14 Yurambas would be built, and these wouldn't see any

24:59combat before being declared obsolete in 1957, though a few of these still survive in Australia

25:04today, including at the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum. So lastly for Australian vehicles

25:11we have this heavy armoured car, otherwise known as the Rhino, which began development in 1941,

25:18and resulted in a prototype being constructed in 1942, based on the Canadian Military Pattern or CMP

25:25truck chassis. Now as the name suggests, this vehicle is rather heavy at 8.5 tonnes,

25:31and this would no doubt affect mobility, with the top speed of the original CMP truck being 50

25:36miles per hour or 80kmh, but I seriously doubt the Rhino would get anywhere near this top speed

25:42except in ideal conditions. However a lot of the weight is to do with its armour, which was specified

25:47to protect against 20mm AP shells, and as such comes in at a maximum of 30mm for the front,

25:54and is pretty well sloped, making it a very well protected vehicle from the front, though the sides

25:59and rear are less well protected and are not sloped, and normal tank guns will not have much difficulty

26:05punching through its armour. As for the rest of its stats, it has a 2 pounder mounted in the turret,

26:10along with one 7.7mm Vickers machine gun, and 4 crew. In game I think this would work at 1.3,

26:17having a decent gun and good armour protection from the front, and while not able to do well in stand up

26:23fights, it should do well as an aggressive reconnaissance vehicle, and it would be nice

26:27for this Australian armoured car to be added in War Thunder. In real life only one prototype of the

26:33armoured car was produced, and the design was not adopted for service, while a second prototype was

26:38conceived as an open topped APC type vehicle, but this wasn't adopted either. So that brings us to the

26:45end of this episode looking at Australian WW2 tanks, and I'd be interested to see your views on these

26:50vehicles in the comments below. For the next episode, I will likely return to some of the

26:55non-German major nations, and start covering their vehicles that I haven't looked at yet,

26:59but we will have to see how things pan out. Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed the episode,

27:04hopefully you'll join me for the next one. I've been Torano, and I'll see you next time.

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