Grant I (USA) - Revision history

U9202753: Small edit on screenshot description on Survivability and armour and Additional Armament.

2024-09-06T13:44:01Z

Small edit on screenshot description on Survivability and armour and Additional Armament.

U9202753: New Specs-Card ArtImage. New screenshots on: Survivability and armour, Armaments, Additional Armaments and Usage in Battles. Removed duplicated Ammor Rack sceenshot.

2024-09-06T13:28:27Z

New Specs-Card ArtImage. New screenshots on: Survivability and armour, Armaments, Additional Armaments and Usage in Battles. Removed duplicated Ammor Rack sceenshot.

U38088265: /* Description */

2024-05-20T17:55:00Z

‎Description

U44629479: Edits

2024-04-01T21:02:40Z

Edits

U43191476: /* See also */

2024-04-01T08:58:15Z

‎See also

U28580205: Updated description to new format

2024-01-16T04:41:39Z

Updated description to new format

U38088265: /* Ammunition */ Converted to transclusion

2023-01-21T19:21:42Z

‎Ammunition: Converted to transclusion

U38088265: /* In-game description */ Reformatted

2022-11-19T23:02:20Z

‎In-game description: Reformatted

U133584478 at 07:41, 27 October 2022

2022-10-27T07:41:29Z

U38088265: /* Armaments */ Updated

2022-09-18T10:48:06Z

‎Armaments: Updated

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 === Survivability and armour ===
-[[File:Grant I (USA) Smoke Grenade.png|right|300px|]]
+[[File:Grant I (USA) Smoke Grenade.png|thumb||right|300px|Smoke Grenade launched from the turret]]
-[[File:Grant I (USA) Smoke Grenade2.png|right|300px|]]
+[[File:Grant I (USA) Smoke Grenade2.png|thumb||right|300px|Smoke Grenade effect]]
 {{Specs-Tank-Armour}}
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 |}
-[[File:Weapon M2 (75 mm) Grant I.png|thumb|right|350px|The M2 97 mm) on Grant I (USA) hull]]
+[[File:Weapon M2 (75 mm) Grant I.png|thumb|right|350px|The M2 (75 mm) on Grant I (USA) hull]]
 === Additional armament ===

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 {{Specs-Card
 |code=us_mk1_grant
-|images={{Specs-Card-Image|GarageImage_{{PAGENAME}}.jpg}}
+|images={{Specs-Card-Image|GarageImage_{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|ArtImage_{{PAGENAME}}.png}}
 }}
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 == General info ==
 === Survivability and armour ===
 {{Specs-Tank-Armour}}
 <!-- ''Describe armour protection. Note the most well protected and key weak areas. Appreciate the layout of modules as well as the number and location of crew members. Is the level of armour protection sufficient, is the placement of modules helpful for survival in combat? If necessary use a visual template to indicate the most secure and weak zones of the armour.'' -->
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 == Armaments ==
 {{Specs-Tank-Armaments}}
 === Main armament ===
 {{Specs-Tank-Weapon|2}}
 <!-- ''Give the reader information about the characteristics of the main gun. Assess its effectiveness in a battle based on the reloading speed, ballistics and the power of shells. Do not forget about the flexibility of the fire, that is how quickly the cannon can be aimed at the target, open fire on it and aim at another enemy. Add a link to the main article on the gun: <code><nowiki>{{main|Name of the weapon}}</nowiki></code>. Describe in general terms the ammunition available for the main gun. Give advice on how to use them and how to fill the ammunition storage.'' -->
 {{main|M5 (37 mm)}}
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 |-
 |}
-[[File:Ammoracks_{{PAGENAME}}.png|right|thumb|x200px|[[Ammo racks]] of the {{PAGENAME}}]]
 === Additional armament ===
 {{Specs-Tank-Weapon|1}}
 <!-- ''Some tanks are armed with several guns in one or more turrets. Evaluate the additional weaponry and give advice on its use. Describe the ammunition available for additional weaponry. Give advice on about how to use them and how to fill the ammunition storage. If there is no additional weaponry remove this subsection.'' -->
 {{main|M2 (75 mm)}}
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 the Grant I has the possibility of facing long-barrelled [[Pz.III J1|Pz.Kpfw. III]], and [[Pz.IV F2|Pz.Kpfw. IV]], as well as [[T-34 (1941)|T-34]]s. The [[ZiS-30]] and [[Na-To]] are also very deadly. The 75 mm gun can reliable penetrate all of these tanks at short range (save the T-34), whereas the 37 mm will require some particular shot placement.
 === Pros and cons ===

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 == Description ==
 <!-- ''In the description, the first part should be about the history of the creation and combat usage of the vehicle, as well as its key features. In the second part, tell the reader about the ground vehicle in the game. Insert a screenshot of the vehicle, so that if the novice player does not remember the vehicle by name, he will immediately understand what kind of vehicle the article is talking about.'' -->
-Following the defeat in France, the British military was left in a state of equipment shortage and were in need of American equipment to recover from their losses. The American's premier medium tank of the time was the [[M3 Lee|M3 medium]], however the British sought for modifications to refit the tanks to better suit British needs as well as build from their existing armour experiences. This led to a much larger turret bing developed by Rock Island Arsenal for the British military, with the new turret capable of housing a radio and doing away with the machine gun cupola. In order to distinguish this modified M3 from the regular M3 mediums being purchased from the United States, the modified M3 was given the nickname "Grant" after Ulysses Grant, the 18th President of the United States and a general who commanded the Union Army during the Civil War. The Grants served within the British and Commonwealth military forces, serving both in the European and Pacific Theater.
+Following the defeat in France, the British military was left in a state of equipment shortage and were in need of American equipment to recover from their losses. The premier American medium tank of the time was the [[M3 Lee|M3 medium]], however the British sought for modifications to refit the tanks to better suit British needs as well as build from their existing armour experiences. This led to a much larger turret bing developed by Rock Island Arsenal for the British military, with the new turret capable of housing a radio and doing away with the machine gun cupola. In order to distinguish this modified M3 from the regular M3 mediums being purchased from the United States, the modified M3 was given the nickname "Grant" after Ulysses Grant, the 18th President of the United States and a general who commanded the Union Army during the Civil War. The Grants served within the British and Commonwealth military forces, serving both in the European and Pacific Theater.
 Introduced in along with the initial American ground tree in [[Update 1.45 "Steel Generals"]] as a bundle vehicle, the Grant shared many similarities with the M3 Lee. The redesigned turret brings protection benefits, with the turret front armour being overall thicker than on the M3 Lee. The removal of the machine gun cupola also removes another weak point to prevent enemies from incapacitating the turret crew. Due to the presence of two cannons, this tank is an excellent multi-role vehicle. The Grant can be played it as a brawler combining the agile 37 mm gun with the high damage of the 75 mm gun, but don't get too close, in fact, the turreted gun has a bad depression and, combined with the high profile, tends to make close tanks difficult to hit. Note that the different guns can be assigned different keys to be separately used, so it is possible to select the 75 mm as a primary weapon, allowing the optics to accommodate the 75 mm shells (and not from the point of view of the 37 mm gun) and use the bullet drop indicator in [[:Category:Game_modes|arcade battles]]. Finally, despite the awkward position of the 75 mm in the hull, it benefits from a stabilization that would allow faster target acquisition when moving in slow speed or coming to a stop.

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 == See also ==
-'''Related development'''
+<!-- ''Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:''
 * [[M3 Medium (Family)]]
 == External links ==

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 == See also ==
-''Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:''
+'''Related development'''
-* ''reference to the series of the vehicles;''
+* [[M3 Medium (Family)]]
-* ''links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.''
+** [[Grant I]]
 == External links ==

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 ==== Ammunition ====
-{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
+{{:M5 (37 mm)/Ammunition|M74B1, M51B1_Lee}}
 ==== [[Ammo racks]] ====
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 ==== Ammunition ====
-{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
+{{:M2 (75 mm)/Ammunition|M48 shell, M72 shot, M61 shot, M89}}
 ==== [[Ammo racks]] ====

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 ::"The 75 (mm gun) is firing. The 37 (mm gun) is firing, but it is traversed around the wrong way. The Browning (machine gun) is jammed. I am saying 'Driver advance' on the A set and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve enemy tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich." —''British Lieutenant Ken Giles, tank commander of a M3 Grant''<ref name="GrantAnecdote">Bell, Chris. "Fury: All You Need to Know about Life in a Tank." The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 24 Oct. 2014. Web. 12 Jan. 2017. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11167575/Fury-all-you-need-to-know-about-life-in-a-tank.html></ref>
-=== In-game description ===
+{{break}}
 The bitter taste left in the mouth of British builders after battles in Greece and France forced them to take a hard look at the future of their armour. They did not have a single powerful artillery system of their own, though the US at the time had just begun producing their new M3 Lee and its sponson-mounted 75 mm cannon.
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 The British Grant Mk Is saw limited action in the 1943 invasion of Sicily.
 == Media ==

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 == Description ==
 <!-- ''In the description, the first part should be about the history of the creation and combat usage of the vehicle, as well as its key features. In the second part, tell the reader about the ground vehicle in the game. Insert a screenshot of the vehicle, so that if the novice player does not remember the vehicle by name, he will immediately understand what kind of vehicle the article is talking about.'' -->
 The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a premium rank {{Specs|rank}} American medium tank {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced along with the initial American ground tree in [[Update 1.45 "Steel Generals"]] as a bundle vehicle, but was later removed from the store. It was reintroduced for [[wt:en/news/5852-special-news-war-thunder-s-birthday-discounts-and-gifts-en|War Thunder's 6th Anniversary]] as a premium purchasable for Golden Eagles {{ge}} and was made available in the [[Warbonds]] shop during Season IV of the [[Battle Pass]].
 It is a modified version of the [[M3 Lee|M3 Lee]] in the American medium tree line with a redesigned turret made for the British Army.
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 ! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" | Ammunition
 ! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
-! colspan="6" | '''Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)'''
+! colspan="6" | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
 |-
 ! 10 m !! 100 m !! 500 m !! 1,000 m !! 1,500 m !! 2,000 m
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 | M74B1 || AP || 79 || 76 || 65 || 54 || 45 || 37
 |-
-| M51B1/B2 || APCBC || 87 || 84 || 73 || 60 || 50 || 41
+| M51B1 || APCBC || 87 || 84 || 73 || 60 || 50 || 41
 |-
 |}
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 ! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
 ! rowspan="2" | Velocity<br>(m/s)
-! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>Mass (kg)
+! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>mass (kg)
 ! rowspan="2" | Fuse delay<br>(m)
 ! rowspan="2" | Fuse sensitivity<br>(mm)
-! rowspan="2" | Explosive Mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
+! rowspan="2" | Explosive mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
 ! colspan="3" | Ricochet
 |-
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 | M74B1 || AP || 883 || 0.87 || N/A || N/A || N/A || 47° || 60° || 65°
 |-
-| M51B1/B2 || APCBC || 883 || 0.87 || N/A || N/A || N/A || 48° || 63° || 71°
+| M51B1 || APCBC || 883 || 0.87 || N/A || N/A || N/A || 48° || 63° || 71°
 |-
 |}
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 |-
 ! ''Arcade''
-| rowspan="2" | 65 || rowspan="2" | -9°/+20° || rowspan="2" | ±15° || rowspan="2" | {{Annotation|Vertical|up to 16 km/h}} || 11 || 16 || 19 || 21 || 23 || rowspan="2" | 6.50 || rowspan="2" | 5.75 || rowspan="2" | 5.30 || rowspan="2" | 5.00
+| rowspan="2" | 65 || rowspan="2" | -9°/+20° || rowspan="2" | ±15° || rowspan="2" | {{Annotation|Vertical|up to 16 km/h}} || 11 || 16 || 19 || 21 || 23 || rowspan="2" | 6.2 || rowspan="2" | 5.5 || rowspan="2" | 5.0 || rowspan="2" | 4.8
 |-
 ! ''Realistic''
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 ! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" | Ammunition
 ! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
-! colspan="6" | '''Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)'''
+! colspan="6" | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
 |-
 ! 10 m !! 100 m !! 500 m !! 1,000 m !! 1,500 m !! 2,000 m
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 ! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
 ! rowspan="2" | Velocity<br>(m/s)
-! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>Mass (kg)
+! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>mass (kg)
 ! rowspan="2" | Fuse delay<br>(m)
 ! rowspan="2" | Fuse sensitivity<br>(mm)
-! rowspan="2" | Explosive Mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
+! rowspan="2" | Explosive mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
 ! colspan="3" | Ricochet
 |-
 ! 0% !! 50% !! 100%
 |-
-| M48 shell || HE || 448 || 6.3 || 0.4 || 0.5 || 666 || 79° || 80° || 81°
+| M48 shell || HE || 448 || 6.3 || 0 || 0.1 || 666 || 79° || 80° || 81°
 |-
 | M72 shot || AP || 588 || 6.3 || N/A || N/A || N/A || 47° || 60° || 65°
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 ! Ammunition
 ! Velocity<br>(m/s)
-! Projectile<br>Mass (kg)
+! Projectile<br>mass (kg)
 ! Screen radius<br>(m)
 ! Screen deploy time<br>(s)
 ! Screen hold time<br>(s)
-! Explosive Mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
+! Explosive mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
 |-
 | M89 || 259 || 3 || 13 || 5 || 20 || 50