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Conway

Conway

AB	RB	SB
6.7	7.0	7.0

Class:

Tank destroyer

Research:35 000

Purchase:210 000

Description

The FV4004 Conway is a rank IV British tank destroyer with a battle rating of 6.7 (AB) and 7.0 (RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.57 "Battle March". It is armed with a cannon developed to take on the heavy Soviet IS-3 tank. It excels in fighting the top-rank heavies.

This tank plays very similarly to the KV-2. It lacks armor on all sides and has a very large caliber gun, able to penetrate everything it faces, severely damaging most. It can be played as a usual tank destroyer, excelling at it with its high velocity APDS rounds, sniping from a distance. Extraordinarily, it is also able to take a heavy tank in a 1v1 as well.

General info

Survivability and armour

Smoke grenades

Creation of a smoke screen in front of the vehicle

Armourfront / side / back

Hull76 / 51 / 38

Turret132 / 47 / 30

Crew4 people

Visibility150 %

Armour type:

Rolled homogeneous armour
Cast homogeneous armour (Gun mantlet)

Armour	Front	Sides	Rear	Roof
Hull	76.2 mm (58°) Front glacis 76.2 mm (47-48°) Lower glacis	50.8 (12°) + 6 mm	38 mm (8-12°)	29 mm 8-14 mm Engine deck
Turret	132 mm (19°) Turret front 140 mm (7-61°) Gun Mantlet	95 mm (0-6°) Front 47 mm (2°) Middle 30 mm Rear	30 mm Border 20 mm Hatch	17 mm
Armour	Front	Sides	Roof
Cupola	47 mm	47 mm Right side 30 mm Left & Rear	47 mm

Notes:

Suspension wheels are 20 mm thick while tracks are 30 mm thick.
Turret sides are angled, causing inaccurate shots to bounce.

Mobility

Speedforward / back

AB41 / 14 km/h

RB and SB38 / 13 km/h

Number of gears5 forward

1 back

Weight49.8 t

Engine power

AB1 212 hp

RB and SB635 hp

Power-to-weight ratio

AB24.3 hp/t

RB and SB12.8 hp/t

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
Game Mode	Forward	Reverse	Weight (tons)	Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade	41	14	49.8	902	1,212	18.11	24.34
Realistic	38	13	49.8	562	635	11.29	12.75

Modifications and economy

Repair costBasic → Reference

AB4 056 → 5 264

RB4 573 → 5 935

SB6 670 → 8 657

Total cost of modifications61 400

102 100

Talisman cost1 800

Crew training61 000

Experts210 000

Aces890

Research Aces570 000

Reward for battleAB / RB / SB

130 / 210 / 240 %

178 / 178 / 178 %

Modifications

Mobility

Protection

Firepower

Tracks Research: 4 100 Cost: 6 800 170
Suspension Research: 3 500 Cost: 5 800 145	Brake System Research: 3 500 Cost: 5 800 145
Filters Research: 5 100 Cost: 8 500 210
Transmission Research: 6 600 Cost: 11 000 280	Engine Research: 6 600 Cost: 11 000 280

Improved Parts

Research:

4 100

Cost:

6 800

170

Improved FPE

Research:

3 500

Cost:

5 800

145

Crew Replenishment

Research:

5 100

Cost:

8 500

210

Horizontal Drive

Research:

4 100

Cost:

6 800

170

Adjustment of Fire

Research:

3 500

Cost:

5 800

145

Elevation Mechanism

Research:

5 100

Cost:

8 500

210

Smoke grenade

Research:

6 600

Cost:

11 000

280

The first upgrades to research are Parts and FPE for increased survivability. Once you got these two, go for Adjustment of Fire and Elevation Mechanism, since these modules increase the accuracy of the gun.

Armaments

Main armament

120 mm Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2 cannon

Ammunition20 rounds

First-order4 rounds

Reloadbasic crew → aces

19.4 → 14.9 s

Vertical guidance-5° / 10°

Main article: Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2 (120 mm)

120 mm Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2					Turret rotation speed (°/s)					Reloading rate (seconds)
Mode	Capacity	Vertical	Horizontal	Stabilizer	Stock	Upgraded	Full	Expert	Aced	Stock	Full	Expert	Aced
Arcade	20	-5°/+10°	±180°	N/A	15.90	21.94	26.64	29.46	31.34	19.40	17.13	15.79	14.90
Realistic	20	-5°/+10°	±180°	N/A	10.70	12.60	15.30	16.92	18.00	19.40	17.13	15.79	14.90

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
Ammunition	Type of warhead	10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
Shot L1G	APDS	362	361	359	354	339	321
Shell L1TK	HESH	152	152	152	152	152	152

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	Ricochet
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	0%	50%	100%
Shot L1G	APDS	1,493	7.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	75°	78°	80°
Shell L1TK	HESH	792	15.87	0.05	0.1	3,970	73°	77°	80°

Ammo racks

Full ammo	Ammo part	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	4th rack empty	Visual discrepancy
20	Projectiles Propellants	17 (+3) 16 (+4)	14 (+6) 10 (+10)	13 (+7) 1 (+19)	1 (+19)	No

Turret empty: 10 (+10)

Machine guns

7.62 mm L3A1 machine gun (coaxial)

Ammunition3 750 rounds

Belt capacity250 rounds

Reloadbasic crew → aces

10.4 → 8.0 s

Fire rate500 shots/min

Main article: L3A1 (7.62 mm)

7.62 mm L3A1
Mount	Capacity (Belt)	Fire rate	Vertical	Horizontal
Coaxial	3,600 (250)	500	N/A	N/A

Usage in battles

As a tank destroyer, you might want to go for heavy tank hunt. In this case, you should check the battle rating of opposing team. Despite having heavy gun, your best bet in uptier would be long range flank sniping. This is due to APDS doing less damage to crew and components, the thicker the armor it penetrated was, thus doing minimal damage through heavy tank's frontal armour. As such, you are less dangerous to superheavy tanks (especially the ones from 8.0) from front, compared to FV 4005, which many players will mistake you for. You still can penetrate most of breakthrough tanks, forcing them to retreat or slip up at critical moment. Since APDS is super high velocity, you can snipe across the map with little issue, and do fatal damage from sides.

To everything else you are extremely dangerous, and, if detected, have some presence factor. This can be beneficial and bad at same time, since you can scare off heavy tanks and attract medium and light tanks, and even other SPG's. Your turret might hold off a few stray shots from distant or weak opponents, but your hull is still quite fragile, and reload times are still too long, so there is no room for mistakes at close range duels. For these reasons, if possible, adversaries must be kept away from you, so their guns are inadequate at fighting you, your hull must be kept hidden, and enemy SPG and "sniper" oriented medium tanks must be neutralized on sight.

In case if light vehicle is stalking you, sometimes it's better to just load HESH, provoke, then hopefully blast enemy away. Heavily armoured vehicles are still more vulnerable to APDS, than HESH, regardless of range, unless you hit them at specific weakspots with it.

Pros and cons

Pros:

Very powerful 120 mm gun.
Gun mantlet has decent armour.

Cons:

Weak armour overall.
Long reload time.
Fairly low speed for a lightly armoured vehicle.
Only carries a maximum of 20 shells.

History

When the Centurion tanks entered service in British service in 1945, the British didn't tank account to the sudden appearance of the Soviet IS-3. The IS-3 tank showed the Western Allies needed to reconsider their tank inventories, which at the time the IS-3 was introduced only composed of mostly M4 Shermans, M26 Pershings, and the Centurions. The British, recognizing the need of a bigger gun to fight the IS-3, started production on Conqueror tank. However, development takes time and the Conqueror would not be ready until 1955. As an interim project until it is done, the British took a Centurion Mk 3 tank and upgraded with a new turret made from rolled plate that can mount the 120 mm L1 gun, the same gun meant for the Conqueror. This vehicle, designated the FV4004 Conway was to have the heavy armament, yet the same maneuverability as the base Centurion. One of such vehicle was made in this matter before the whole thing was cancelled in 1951. The sole piece made is now stored in the Bovington Tank Museum.

Another attempt at this kind of mounting with the Centurion was the FV4005, which was meant to be a tank destroyer with a larger 183 mm gun. The project started in 1951 and developed in July 1955. The gun was mounted in a similar fashion as the Conway on a lightly armoured turret. This was a limited production and by August 1957, the whole project was disassembled. The FV4005 also has survived in the Bovington Tank Museum.

Media

Skin and Camouflages for the Conway in Warthunder Live.

External links

Britain tank destroyers
Infantry tank derivatives	Archer · Gun Carrier (3-in)
Light tank derivatives	Alecto I
M10 Achilles	Achilles · Achilles (65 Rg.)
Centurion derivatives	FV4005 · Conway
ATGM	Swingfire · Striker
Other	Tortoise · ▄M109A1
Canada	QF 3.7 Ram
South Africa	G6 · ZT3A2

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 == Description ==
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+<!-- ''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 Rank {{Specs|rank}} British tank destroyer {{Battle-rating|1}}. The tank destroyer was released with [[Update_1.57_"Battle_March"|Update 1.57 "Battle March"]]. It is armed with a cannon developed to take on the heavy Soviet [[IS-3]] tank. It excels in fighting the top-rank heavies.
+The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a rank {{Specs|rank}} British tank destroyer {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced in [[Update 1.57 "Battle March"]]. It is armed with a cannon developed to take on the heavy Soviet [[IS-3]] tank. It excels in fighting the top-rank heavies.
 This tank plays very similarly to the [[KV-2 (1939)|KV-2]]. It lacks armor on all sides and has a very large caliber gun, able to penetrate everything it faces, severely damaging most. It can be played as a usual tank destroyer, excelling at it with its high velocity APDS rounds, sniping from a distance. Extraordinarily, it is also able to take a heavy tank in a 1v1 as well.
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 === 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 helpfull for survival in combat?''
+<!-- ''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.'' -->
-''If necessary use a visual template to indicate the most secure and weak zones of the armour.''-->
 '''Armour type:'''
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-{{tankMobility|abMinHp= 902|rbMinHp= 562}}
+{{tankMobility|abMinHp=902|rbMinHp=562}}
 === Modifications and economy ===
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 === Main armament ===
 {{Specs-Tank-Weapon|1}}
-<!--''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 flexibilty 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.''-->
+<!-- ''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|L1A2 (120 mm)}}
+{{main|Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2 (120 mm)}}
-{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align:center"
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
 |-
-! colspan="5" |[[L1A2 (120 mm)|120 mm Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2]]
+! colspan="5" | [[Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2 (120 mm)|120 mm Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2]] || colspan="5" | Turret rotation speed (°/s) || colspan="4" | Reloading rate (seconds)
-! colspan="5" |Turret rotation speed (°/s)|| colspan="4" |Reloading rate (seconds)
 |-
-!Mode!!Capacity!!Vertical!!Horizontal!!Stabilizer
+! Mode !! Capacity !! Vertical !! Horizontal !! Stabilizer
-!Stock!!Upgraded!!Full!!Expert!!Aced
+! Stock !! Upgraded !! Full !! Expert !! Aced
-!Stock!!Full!!Expert!!Aced
+! Stock !! Full !! Expert !! Aced
 |-
-!''Arcade''
+! ''Arcade''
 | rowspan="2" |20|| rowspan="2" |-5°/+10°|| rowspan="2" |±180°|| rowspan="2" |N/A||15.90||21.94||26.64||29.46||31.34|| rowspan="2" |19.40|| rowspan="2" |17.13|| rowspan="2" |15.79|| rowspan="2" |14.90
 |-
 !''Realistic''
 |10.70||12.60||15.30||16.92||18.00
+|-
 |}
-===== Ammunition =====
+==== Ammunition ====
 {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
 ! colspan="8" | Penetration statistics
 |-
 ! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" | Ammunition
-! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" | Type of <br /> warhead
+! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
-! colspan="6" | '''Penetration''' '''''in mm''''' '''@ 0° Angle of Attack'''
+! colspan="6" | '''Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)'''
 |-
-! 10m
+! 10 m !! 100 m !! 500 m !! 1,000 m !! 1,500 m !! 2,000 m
-! 100m
-! 500m
-! 1000m
-! 1500m
-! 2000m
 |-
 | Shot L1G || APDS || 362 || 361 || 359 || 354 || 339 || 321
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 |}
 {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
-! colspan="11" | Shell details
+! colspan="10" | Shell details
 |-
 ! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" | Ammunition
-! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" | Type of <br /> warhead
+! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
-! rowspan="2" |Velocity <br /> in m/s
+! rowspan="2" | Velocity<br>(m/s)
-! rowspan="2" |Projectile<br />Mass in kg
+! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>Mass (kg)
-! rowspan="2" | ''Fuse delay''
+! rowspan="2" | Fuse delay<br>(m)
-''in m:''
+! rowspan="2" | Fuse sensitivity<br>(mm)
-! rowspan="2" | ''Fuse sensitivity''
+! rowspan="2" | Explosive Mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
-''in mm:''
+! colspan="3" | Ricochet
-! rowspan="2" | ''Explosive Mass in g<br /> (TNT equivalent):''
-! rowspan="2" | ''Normalization At 30° <br> from horizontal:''
-! colspan="3" | ''Ricochet:''
 |-
-! 0%
+! 0% !! 50% !! 100%
-! 50%
-! 100%
 |-
-| Shot L1G || APDS || 1493 || 7.6 || N/A || N/A || N/A || +1.5° || 75° || 78° || 80°
+| Shot L1G || APDS || 1,493 || 7.6 || N/A || N/A || N/A || 75° || 78° || 80°
 |-
-| Shell L1TK || HESH || 792 || 15.87 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 3,100 || +0° || 73° || 77° || 80°
+| Shell L1TK || HESH || 792 || 15.87 || 0.05 || 0.1 || 3,970 || 73° || 77° || 80°
 |-
 |}
-===== [[Ammo racks|Ammo racks]] =====
+==== [[Ammo racks]] ====
-[[File:Ammoracks {{PAGENAME}}.png|right|thumbnail|x250px|[[Ammo racks|Ammo racks]] of the Conway.]]
+<!-- [[File:Ammoracks_{{PAGENAME}}.png|right|thumb|x250px|[[Ammo racks]] of the {{PAGENAME}}]] -->
-{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
+<!-- '''Last updated:''' -->
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
 |-
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |Full<br />ammo
+! Full<br>ammo
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |Ammo<br />Part
+! Ammo<br>part
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |1st<br />rack empty
+! 1st<br>rack empty
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |2nd<br />rack empty
+! 2nd<br>rack empty
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |3rd<br />rack empty
+! 3rd<br>rack empty
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |4th<br />rack empty
+! 4th<br>rack empty
-! class="wikitable unsortable" |Visual<br /> discrepancy
+! Visual<br>discrepancy
 |-
-| '''20''' || style="text-align:right" | ''Projectiles''<br />''Propellants'' || 17&nbsp;''(+3)''<br />16&nbsp;''(+4)'' || 14&nbsp;''(+6)''<br />10&nbsp;''(+10)'' || 13&nbsp;''(+7)''<br />1&nbsp;''(+19)''|| 1&nbsp;''(+19)''<br />&nbsp; || style="text-align:center" | No
+| '''20''' || style="text-align:right" | ''Projectiles''<br />''Propellants'' || 17&nbsp;''(+3)''<br />16&nbsp;''(+4)'' || 14&nbsp;''(+6)''<br />10&nbsp;''(+10)'' || 13&nbsp;''(+7)''<br />1&nbsp;''(+19)''|| 1&nbsp;''(+19)''<br />&nbsp; || No
 |-
 |}
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 === Machine guns ===
 {{Specs-Tank-Weapon|2}}
-<!--''Offensive and anti-aircraft machine guns not only allow you to fight some aircraft, but also are effective against lightly armoured vehicles. Evaluate machine guns and give recommendations on its use.''-->
+<!-- ''Offensive and anti-aircraft machine guns not only allow you to fight some aircraft but also are effective against lightly armoured vehicles. Evaluate machine guns and give recommendations on its use.'' -->
 {{main|L3A1 (7.62 mm)}}
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" width="50%"
-|-
-! colspan="7" | [[L3A1 (7.62 mm)|7.62 mm L3A1]]
 |-
-! colspan="7" | ''Coaxial mount''
+! colspan="5" | [[L3A1 (7.62 mm)|7.62 mm L3A1]]
 |-
-! colspan="4" rowspan="1" style="width:5em" |Capacity (Belt capacity)
+! Mount !! Capacity (Belt) !! Fire rate !! Vertical !! Horizontal
-! rowspan="1" | Fire rate <br> (shots/minute)
-! rowspan="1" | Vertical <br> guidance
-! rowspan="1" | Horizontal <br> guidance
 |-
-| colspan="4" | 3,600 (250) || 500 || N/A || N/A
+| Coaxial || 3,600 (250) || 500 || N/A || N/A
 |-
 |}
 == Usage in battles ==
-<!--''Describe the tactics of playing in the vehicle, the features of using vehicles in the team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view but instead give the reader food for thought. Describe the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).''-->
+<!-- ''Describe the tactics of playing in the vehicle, the features of using vehicles in the team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view but instead give the reader food for thought. Describe the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).'' -->
 As a tank destroyer, you might want to go for heavy tank hunt. In this case, you should check the battle rating of opposing team. Despite having heavy gun, your best bet in uptier would be long range '''flank''' sniping. This is due to APDS doing less damage to crew and components, the thicker the armor it penetrated was, thus doing minimal damage through heavy tank's frontal armour. As such, you are less dangerous to superheavy tanks (especially the ones from 8.0) from front, compared to [[FV4005|FV 4005]], which many players will mistake you for. You still can penetrate most of breakthrough tanks, forcing them to retreat or slip up at critical moment. Since APDS is super high velocity, you can snipe across the map with little issue, and do fatal damage from sides.
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 === Pros and cons ===
-<!--''Summarize and briefly evaluate the vehicle in terms of its characteristics and combat effectiveness. Mark its pros and cons in a bulleted list. Try not to use more than 6 points for each of the characteristics. Avoid using categorical definitions such as "bad", "good" and the like - they can be substituted with softer forms such as "inadequate" and "effective".''-->
+<!-- ''Summarise and briefly evaluate the vehicle in terms of its characteristics and combat effectiveness. Mark its pros and cons in a bulleted list. Try not to use more than 6 points for each of the characteristics. Avoid using categorical definitions such as "bad", "good" and the like - use substitutions with softer forms such as "inadequate" and "effective".'' -->
 '''Pros:'''
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 '''Cons:'''
-* Weak armour overall
+* Weak armour overall.
-* Long reload time
+* Long reload time.
 * Fairly low speed for a lightly armoured vehicle.
 * Only carries a maximum of 20 shells.
 == History ==
-<!--''Describe the history of the creation and combat usage of the ground vehicle in more detail than in the introduction. If the historical reference turns out to be too big, take it to a separate article, taking a link to the article about the vehicle and adding a block "/ History" (example: <nowiki>https://wiki.warthunder.com/(Vehicle-name)/History</nowiki>) and add a link to it here using the <code>main</code> template. Be sure to reference text and sources by using <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki></code>, as well as adding them at the end of the article. This section may also include the vehicle's devblog entry (if applicable) and the ingame encyclopedia description (under <code><nowiki>=== Encyclopedia Info ===</nowiki></code>, also if applicable).''-->
+<!-- ''Describe the history of the creation and combat usage of the vehicle in more detail than in the introduction. If the historical reference turns out to be too long, take it to a separate article, taking a link to the article about the vehicle and adding a block "/History" (example: <nowiki>https://wiki.warthunder.com/(Vehicle-name)/History</nowiki>) and add a link to it here using the <code>main</code> template. Be sure to reference text and sources by using <code><nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki></code>, as well as adding them at the end of the article with <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>. This section may also include the vehicle's dev blog entry (if applicable) and the in-game encyclopedia description (under <code><nowiki>=== In-game description ===</nowiki></code>, also if applicable).'' -->
 When the [[Centurion Mk 1|Centurion]] tanks entered service in British service in 1945, the British didn't tank account to the sudden appearance of the Soviet [[IS-3]]. The IS-3 tank showed the Western Allies needed to reconsider their tank inventories, which at the time the IS-3 was introduced only composed of mostly [[M4A3 (76) W|M4 Shermans]], [[M26|M26 Pershing]]s, and the [[Centurion Mk 1|Centurion]]s. The British, recognizing the need of a bigger gun to fight the IS-3, started production on [[Conqueror|Conqueror]] tank. However, development takes time and the Conqueror would not be ready until 1955. As an interim project until it is done, the British took a [[Centurion Mk 3]] tank and upgraded with a new turret made from rolled plate that can mount the 120 mm L1 gun, the same gun meant for the Conqueror. This vehicle, designated the '''FV4004 Conway''' was to have the heavy armament, yet the same maneuverability as the base Centurion. One of such vehicle was made in this matter before the whole thing was cancelled in 1951. The sole piece made is now stored in the Bovington Tank Museum.
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 == Media ==
-<!--''Excellent additions to the article would be video guides, screenshots from the game, and photos.''-->
+<!-- ''Excellent additions to the article would be video guides, screenshots from the game, and photos.'' -->
 Skin and Camouflages for the [https://live.warthunder.com/feed/camouflages/?vehicleCountry=britain&vehicleType=tank&vehicleClass=tank_destroyer&vehicle=uk_fv4004_conway Conway] in Warthunder Live.
 == See also ==
 ''Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:''
 * ''reference to the series of the vehicles;''
 * ''links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.''
 == External links ==
-<!--''Paste links to sources and external resources, such as:''
+<!-- ''Paste links to sources and external resources, such as:''
 * ''topic on the official game forum;''
 * ''encyclopedia page on the tank;''
-* ''other literature.''-->
+* ''other literature.'' -->
-* [http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/872/ [Devblog<nowiki>]</nowiki> FV4004 Conway: IS Hunter]
+* [[wt:en/devblog/current/872/|[Devblog] FV4004 Conway: IS Hunter]]
-* [[Wikipedia:Centurion_(tank)#Fighting_Vehicle_numbers|[Wikipedia<nowiki>]</nowiki> Centurion (tank) - Fighting Vehicle numbers]]
+* [[Wikipedia:Centurion_(tank)#Fighting_Vehicle_numbers|[Wikipedia] Centurion (tank) - Fighting Vehicle numbers]]
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Difference between revisions of "Conway"

Revision as of 13:07, 29 January 2021

Contents

Description

General info

Survivability and armour

Mobility

Modifications and economy

Armaments

Main armament

Ammunition

Ammo racks

Machine guns

Usage in battles

Pros and cons

History

Media

See also

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