Tank Chats #124 explores the FV4005, a British experimental tank destroyer armed with an enormous 183 mm gun. We dig into its postwar origins, the reasoning behind such extreme firepower, and why this ...

In the late 1940s, the British War Office feared the Soviets would field ever more heavily armored tanks after the IS-3, so it demanded a gun that could pierce a steeply sloped 152 mm plate at long ...