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Description A heavy tank assigned to meet the front-lines by 1941. Uses the lengthened chassis of the VB-3A as the VB-1 chassis was not currently up to the job.
Created by the VB tank development company to meet the requirements and to win the contract for the production of this heavy tank.
Many companies proposed several of their heavy tank designs, but were outdated for its time. The layout, and the whole concept itself.
Again equipped with several decent radios and comms devices, but had a quite a poor performance, but still manages to fulfill its job.
crew: 4
-commander
-loader
-gunner
-radioman
Hull armor (with 60% of siliceous-core armor and the rest just traditional welded steel armor)
Front: 130mm (with additional armor plating which is up to 56mm thick)
Sides: 80mm
Rear: 45mm
Turret armor
Front: 212mm
Sides: 120mm
Rear: 80mm
The tank is equipped with a 100mm MJ5K5 high velocity gun, quite inaccurate at some point, but can successfully penetrate and destroy enemy armor.
This tank has a maximum ammo capacity of over 43 shells
The MJ5K5 high velocity gun is compatible with AP, HEAT, and APCR shells, making it lethal against other enemy heavily armored tanks
Consists of a .50cal MH5J7 rapid-firing machine gun with 2,000 rounds
Still having the same strong suspensions used in the VB-3A, but with a more powerful engine
This tank is fitted with a gas-turbine 860hp diesel engine, which gives it rather decent mobility, but poor acceleration due to its heavy weight.

This Ministry needed a tank that could tackle against the more heavily armored tanks in the battlefield. And so asked several companies to come up and design a heavy tank that would meet the requirements of first great armor protection, mobility, and decent firepower. Sadly almost all of the prototypes made by several companies did not meet all of the requirements given from the ministry. But the VB-12H was fortunately up to its job as a heavy front-line tank. was awarded with the contract and production had immediately started. It was very effective at holding enemy at bay, long enough for the cavalry to arrive. This tank had retired three years after the war had ended. A total of 1,456 tanks were produced during the war.
 
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Comments: 3

GunnerGoat [2016-05-08 00:11:31 +0000 UTC]

This tank would probably have atleast 100 ricochets before getting penetrated

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MultyInterest In reply to GunnerGoat [2016-05-08 00:24:40 +0000 UTC]

like a Maus? XD

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GunnerGoat In reply to MultyInterest [2016-05-08 08:06:03 +0000 UTC]

Yeah.and if does penetrate i dont think it would do much damage apart from giving the crew a soivenier

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