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In this different timeline The T-34/85 came out sooner (Went into action in 1943 instead of 1944), and the Germans retaliated with their Panzer IV's (Since the Panther has not been built yet). One Tank Commander by the Name Keith (Fictional dude) Decided to "up gun" his tank. He saw that the T-34/85 had the same turret ring size as the Panzer IV's and decided since his turret was badly damaged he needed a new one any way, so he ordered Engineers to replaces the turret of his tank with the one of a destroyed T-34/85 that had a intact, and functional turret. The tank performed well but the turret rotation was slow and not very cooperative, so he had the tank shipped back to Germany to get the turret figured out. The high command told him to put a normal turret back, but he did not, and had the factory work out the problems. This became popular since the 85 mm gun was much better the the 75 mm gun on the Panzer IV. The idea was so popular that 50 other Panzer IV crews had this same modification done to their tanks as well. The High Command stopped trying to stop them and let them continue seeing that they are still doing their job. Just to make things better for them they had all Modified Panzer IV's put in the same division. The idea swarmed over to other countries as well, ounce they found a tank with the same turret ring size, and the turret was still working they swapped their damaged turret for that one. These tank later became called the "Ugly tanks" since the turret 9/10 didn't match with the hull.

(Thanks to Teodor from JuniorGeneral.Com for the T-34 Turret, and Panzer IV chassis... I don't care how stupid and how unrealistic this would be i like it and it looks cool... Any know how wide the Panzer III's turret ring is?)

Description
In this different timeline The T-34/85 came out sooner (Went into action in 1943 instead of 1944), and the Germans retaliated with their Panzer IV's (Since the Panther has not been built yet). One Tank Commander by the Name Keith (Fictional dude) Decided to "up gun" his tank. He saw that the T-34/85 had the same turret ring size as the Panzer IV's and decided since his turret was badly damaged he needed a new one any way, so he ordered Engineers to replaces the turret of his tank with the one of a destroyed T-34/85 that had a intact, and functional turret. The tank performed well but the turret rotation was slow and not very cooperative, so he had the tank shipped back to Germany to get the turret figured out. The high command told him to put a normal turret back, but he did not, and had the factory work out the problems. This became popular since the 85 mm gun was much better the the 75 mm gun on the Panzer IV. The idea was so popular that 50 other Panzer IV crews had this same modification done to their tanks as well. The High Command stopped trying to stop them and let them continue seeing that they are still doing their job. Just to make things better for them they had all Modified Panzer IV's put in the same division. The idea swarmed over to other countries as well, ounce they found a tank with the same turret ring size, and the turret was still working they swapped their damaged turret for that one. These tank later became called the "Ugly tanks" since the turret 9/10 didn't match with the hull.

(Thanks to Teodor from JuniorGeneral.Com for the T-34 Turret, and Panzer IV chassis... I don't care how stupid and how unrealistic this would be i like it and it looks cool... Any know how wide the Panzer III's turret ring is?)