T95 - America's Forgotten Super Tanks

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An American tank with a 120mm smoothbore main gun and composite armor? "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it."

both the Chieftain and the T-64 also used opposed-piston engines, although theirs were diesel, and both of them had problems with their engines. the reliability of those engines improved with time, but it still makes using opposed-piston engines in the T95 now with hindsight seem a somewhat risky choice, although it does make sense for a tank that's testing out new technologies.

So forgotten i litterally never heard about it, actually. Nice !

Opted out of using T26E1 and T-26E5 tech on M46 due to budget constraints. Opted out of building fully new tank with M47 due to budget constraints. Opted out of building T95 due to budget constraints. Opted out of composite armor and 120mm gun on M60 due to budget constraints. Opted out of MBT-70 due to budget constraints. And at the same time somehow build M103, M60A2 and Sheridan. Budget priorities...

next, SPAA history

I had a chance to see on of the surviving T95 prototypes when I was stationed at Fort McCoy, WI in 1975-76. It was being turned into a radio-controlled target for the anti-tank M72 LAW training range, where it would be repeatedly struck by the 35 mm M73 training rocket fired from discarded LAW launchers. The M73 not having a hollow charge warhead, the only damage to the T95 woukd be to its paint! This would give trainees a better experience - having to deal with a maneuvering target rather than the typical stationary target on antitank ranges, and would be much safer to fire as the M73 did not have as fearsome as backblast as the M72. I rotated away into retirement before the T95 target project was finished, so I cannot say if it was a success. The T-95 we were working with may be one of the four still in existence.

the only other tank I've heard of with an electro-optical rangefinder is the Leopard 2 prototype with the T14 turret that had the EMES 13 electro-optical rangefinder and that was made in the 70s.

It’s crazy how these tanks then evolved to look like the tank we all know and love today. Technology is so fast man

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Finally, my favorite tank is featured

The most influential prototype in the Tank industry. The knowledge gained was invaluable compared to the loss of not accepting it into service. I'm really glad you went over this unsung hero's development cycle.

Kane Pixels needs to take a look at Mr. Mo. 15:47

A video on the m60 would be cool

May we have some elaboration on the backstory of "Mr. Mo"?

I'm saddened by this project's outcome, the T95 variants had so much potential... Composite armor, excellent turret armor layout, great guns for the tank's size, basic laser rangefinders... such a gem of a project !

finally someone talking about this tank, w interesting explanation

when i went through basic training ive been on busses passing one of the T95s in the photos at the beginning, was honestly suprised seeing it and a couple panzer 3s in the same fenced off yard

15:42 omg the tank in my home town, lately I’ve been wondering if it was some rare relic. Supposedly it ended up there because some of the local industry was involved in its production. I’m glad to say that despite the town declining, this was one thing they’ve taken pretty good care of over the years, it’s in a nice park with a cobra helicopter and Corsair fighter you can’t see in this shot. We were always proud of our steel mill and other industries, as well the town’s high military service rate, so this tank is sort of an extension of that. I wonder if anyone still knows how it ended up there.

Thank you for the amazing and hella in-dept video - as always you've put 120% of yourself in it! As for the next one, I would love to see a video about the T110 project. In the game WoT it has 3 versions present - T110E5, which looks like the TS-31, you showed us on the picture at 4:03 ; T110E4 with a semi-traversalble turret and T110E3 with no turret as the latter 2 fit a 155 mm gun. I would love to know whether or not these are real, how did the project evolve from a turretless tank destroyer to a conventional heavy tank, what were these 155 mm monsters, what were the E1 and E2 variants like (and probably a clue why WG skipped to E3 in their game), and finally why did the T110E4 had such an awkwardly working turret. Would antisipate such a video - thank you in advance, Mr. RedWrench ❤