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Originally Posted by Imp
Not my thing but without looking would give some opponents. Shermans & T-34s that carried on in service in theatres like South America Africa got upgunned mainly following the HEAT route I think, been a while since played 50s.
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Talking about the russian ammo,the T-34 got a new set of conventional but somewhat improved AP/APCR rounds postwar,the
BR-367/BR367P, as well as an early HEAT round.
Eventually the BK-2M HEAT round, with a penetration
capability around 300mm of RHA became available (in the 60s IIRC), enabling it to penetrate most of the pre composite armor MBTs even from the front.
For the Sherman I have less info but it seems that the trend was to change the original gun with something better. The israeli first installed a french developed 75mm KwK 42 L70 derivative (with AP as primary round presumably) and then a cut down
105mm (with HEAT as primary round it seems); the chileans on the other hand installed a special high velocity 60mm.
What nazi germany would hypothetically do is a pretty tricky question. Early in the war they seemed to think that squeeze bore guns were the solution but of course tungsten shortage killed them together with APCRs. OTOH they had done some development on APDS rounds but I don't remember the eaxct details.