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Originally Posted by Wild Goose
But still, jesus, fitting the 120mm smoothbore to an M4 hull? Mad genius. That said, if they're using WW2 style rounds, then I could see performance issues, since you need rifling to engage spin to stabilise the round, and since sabot rounds are banned, you lose the whole point of the gun. The 105 the use on the Challenger 2 or the old M1 Abrams would have been better.
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Well, that was probably a case of a guy with more greed than brains, as the story seems to imply.
Still, one must wonder that how unbalanced a post-WWII gun but limiting it to "WWII" ammo will be. Since there is no real WWII round for the gun, if the gun is allowed with ammo at all the best we can do is allowing a round that will be plausibly producible with WWII tech. The problem the gun will still be able to withstand a larger amount of overpressure than WWII guns, which theoretically allows them to create a round with an "insane" amount of WWII propellant.