History:

In the 1943, the Wright Ground Self Defense Force (WGSDF) fielded the latest Shermans from US in 1943, but in the same year, the latest Japanese tanks made the Shermans obsolete, so in 1943, the WGSDF asked the Hobby Systems (now Wright Systems) to build a tank that has a lot of untested, but advanced technologies, but however the building of the prototype was delayed to 1946, the WGSDF continued to field Shermans and even went as far as to modify it with their own 76mm gun with fume extractor, the Shermans were called as M4A2M1W Sherman, these Shermans were capable of firing the 76mm APDS (M452), early HEATFS (M302A1), smoke shells (M361 Smoke), and APHE (M62 Shot), in the 1947, the M272 prototype was finished, the T44E1 was scheduled to take a field testing starting from November 19th, 1947 to October 22nd, 1948, then the performance results had showed that the Soviet T-44 didn't met the performance specifications as the WGSDF wanted, but the Hobby Systems T44E1 did met the specifications as the WGSDF needed and the WGSDF ordered the first 25 production vehicles to be delivered with some changes made, the first 25 vehicles were delivered in July 25th 1949, then the T44E1 officially entered service in September 2nd, 1949 as M272, the Last of these venerable tanks were delivered to French Army with M272A5FR variant in January 27th, 2018

Description:

The M272 was one of the earliest MBTs to exist in 1940s, the tank was very reliable, the Tank would go on how the Western MBT designs were influenced

Info:

Main Gun: 120mm JM1A1 cannon

Crews: 4

Ammo Capacity: 27 (estimated, not actual)

Ammunition: 120mm M7 (APHE), 120mm M67 (HE), 120mm M35 (HEATFS), 120mm M82A1 (APDS)