Thank you for the nice clarification. Explains why Germans built a fair number of 105L/28 armed turretless AFVs (>2000). So they almost did that, but with a slightly different weapon, for a slightly different use.critical mass wrote: ↑03 Oct 2018, 14:57The 88L/56 might better be considered as a gun upgrade for assault guns, where the additional HE performance might come in handy. However, the 105mm StuH42 can do everything better than the 88L/56 on lighter weight, except for long range anti tank accuracy.
However, if the 105L/28 was preferable to the 88L/56, it opens the question of suitability of the 105L/28 as the weapon for a breakthrough/ counterstrike heavy tank;
especially given the (historically taken) option of going whole hog to the 88L/71 - maybe the bad experiences of '40-'41 soured them (somewhat excessively) against short guns for tank use.