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The M3 Grant is an British modification of an American medium tank. There are two different versions of the tank with the either the earlier M2 or later M3 model of 75 mm gun, in some battles it is random which model is on the tank.

M3 Grant "early"[]

Medium Tank M3
M3 "Grant" (Early)
"General Grant"
FHSW-M3-Grant,88090,original
General Historical Information
Place of origin USA
Category Medium Tank
Debut in FHSW v0.4
Speed 42 km/h
Main armament 75mm M2 gun
Coaxial weapon 2x M1919A4 Browning mg's
General Ingame Information
Used by Great Britain
Australia
Crew in‑game 3
Seat 2 1x 37mm M6 gun
1x M1919A4 Browning mg's
Seat 3 Commander Cupola
Seat 4 Passenger Seat
Seat 5 Passenger Seat
Historical Picture
GB-M3Grant

The Medium Tank M3 was based on the Medium Tank M2, the previous medium tank which emphasis on machineguns and a single 37mm gun was not suited for combat against other medium tanks. Nicknamed "Lee", or "General Lee", named after General Robert Edward Lee, an American Civil War general, this was the variant used by the USA. The British also used the M3 Grant model, named after General Ulysses Simpson Grant, also an American Civil War general. The early version was the same carriage like the M2, but the armor was increased from 32mm to 51 mm and an 75 mm M2 Gun was fitted in the right side of the fuselage. Two .303 M1919A4 Browning machineguns are placed in the left side of the fuselage and can only fire forward. Like the M2, there was also a small turret on the fuselage but bigger and with an 37mm M5 gun with also an .303 M1919A4 Browning machinegun.

On the Grant the turret was enlargened from the Lee because British wanted the radio inside the turret so the 37mm gunner can operate both gun and the radio. Thus, an dedicated radioman wasn't needed and the crew numbers went from seven to six. On the turret from the Lee there was a smaller turret. It was removed in the Grant model. The front side of the turret had its armour increased by an inch from the two inches of armour the Lee model had all around and the roof was increased from little less than a inch to one and a half. Atleast 5.348 Lee's and Grants were produced between April 1941 and August 1942 by the Rock Island Arsenal, the Detroit Tank Arsenal and the American Locomotive Co in different variants.

Later a new medium tank was designed on the fuselage which became the M4 Sherman as an successor of the M3 Lee and Grant tanks. The Canadians also built an own medium tank which became the Ram tank. When the Sherman entered service in the armies, the M3 Lee and Grants were modified for other purposes.

The tank first saw action during the Battle of Gazala by the British with the M3 Grant in May 1942. Soon it will be clear the M3 are the most powerfull allied tank on the battlefield on that time, but also a weak and big target. The big body of the tank was a good and excellent target for the Germans. The Germans may have 50mm guns in their tanks like the Pzkpfw III, the eighty-eight will do the killing jobs. Around 50% tanks wich be used during the attack are be destroyed! The M3 was already in North Africa gradually replaced by its successor, the M4 Sherman, and even that was in a 1 on 1 confrontation no match for the then current German tanks. The recent deployment of the M3 in the west was in Italy: in Normandy there were already no longer used. When the British received their new M4 Shermans from America, they quickly transferred approximately 1,700 M3s to the war in South East Asia, deploying about 800 M3s to Australian forces and about 900 M3 tanks to Indian forces. British Lees and Grants were used by the British Fourteenth Army from the fall of Rangoon,nperforming admirably until the end of the war. In the Far East, the M3's main task was infantry support. It played a pivotal role during the Battle of Imphal, during which the Imperial Japanese Army's 14th Tank Regiment (consisting of mostly captured British M3 Stuart light tanks and their own Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks) encountered M3 medium tanks for the first time and found itself outgunned and outmatched by the British armor. Despite their lower-than-average off-road performance, the M3s performed well as they traversed the steep hillsides around Imphal. Declared obsolete in April 1944, the General Lee and Grant fought on against Japan until the end of the war. In the end, the M3 in the China Burma India Theater performed the mission its original designers had intended it to do: that of supporting the infantry.The Russians also will have Grants and bestowing it the nickname of "БМ-6 — братская могила на шестерых" that could be translated as "collective grave for six people".

M3 Grant "late"[]

Medium Tank M3
M3 "Grant" (Late)
"General Grant"
FHSW-M3-Grant,88091,original
General Historical Information
Place of origin USA
Category Medium Tank
Debut in FHSW v0.4
Speed 42 km/h
Main armament 75mm M3 gun
Coaxial weapon 2x M1919A4 Browning mg's
General Ingame Information
Used by Great Britain
Canada
France
Crew in‑game 3
Seat 2 1x 37mm M56 gun
1x M1919A4 Browning mg's
Seat 3 Commander Cupola
Seat 4 Passenger Seat
Seat 5 Passenger Seat
Historical Picture
Grant tank


The M3 Grant "late" was a later production model. It was the early model but with an 75mm M3 gun, which was a longer derivative of the M2. The M3 is equipped on American and British vehicles such as the M4 Sherman, the later models of the M3 Lee and Grants and the Churchill (scavenged from General Sherman tanks in the North African theatre). It had a barrel length of 37.5 calibres (3 metres) and a muzzle velocity of 619 m/s with M72 AP shell and 617 m/s with the M61 APC shell.

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