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Overview[]

The Medium Tank, T26E4, is an American prototype medium tank developed toward the end of the second world war. The T26E4 was developed from the T26E3.

Variants[]

Medium Tank, T26
Original prototype model with electric transmission.
Medium Tank, T26E1
Prototype model with torqmatic transmission.
Medium Tank, T26E2
Close support model equipped with the 105mm Howitzer, M4.
Medium Tank, T26E3
Prototype model that was accepted into service as the Medium Tank, M26.
Medium Tank, T26E4
Up-gunned model equipped with the 90m Gun, T15E2.
Medium Tank, T26E5
Up-armoured prototype.
Medium Tank, M26
Standard production model, redesignated from Medium Tank, T26E3.
Medium Tank, M26E1
Updated T26E4 with 90mm Gun, T54.
Medium Tank, M26E2
Upgraded model redesignated Medium Tank, M46.
Medium Tank, M26A1
Upgraded M26 with 90mm Gun, M3A1.
Medium Tank, M26 (T99)
Model equipped with the Rocket Launcher, T99 system.

Development[]

Service History[]

The T26E4, Temporary Pilot No. 1 (registration number 30103292) saw service in the second world war as part of Company I, 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division.

T26E4 Temp Pilot 1

T26E4 Temporary Pilot No. 1

This model was a converted T26E1, that was later up-armoured with extra plates to the gun mantle and the front hull. It received two 38mm boiler plates on the front hull, and the turret received an 80mm armour plate from the upper glacis of a captured German Panther. This vehicle also had a 90mm Gun, T15E1 instead of the T15E2 in other T26E4 models.

It successfully destroyed two vehicles - a Jagdpanther (s.Pz.Abt.507) and an unknown tank, thought to be a Tiger I, but it was likely a Pz.Kpfw. IV due to lack of evidence of Tigers remaining in the area.

This particular model was sent to Kassau after the war and scrapped.

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