Add canister shots to the M2A4, M5A1, and both M3 Stuarts. None of them have any HE shells (they would be pretty useless even then), so give them the infamous canister shot.
Here are the shell’s details:
Fond memories of Band of Brothers Game. commanding the Stuart with Canister shot 
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German 37mm and Soviet 45mm also had canister shot available - XIX century tech was a smart solution to low-caliber AT cannons lackluster HE’s.
I think Japanese 37mm also had some canister shots?
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I did not know they had a canister shot, too. Do you have anything I can read up about these countries using canister shot?
Also add he for japanese 37mm tanks
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I agree; they need at least something anti-infantry for their main armament.
I took a quick look and couldn’t find anything on the 37mm having cannister shot, but the short barrel 75mm did have it.
The one on the right.
Kt stands for Kartätsche
Kartätsche=grape shot
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Great Scott! I didn’t actually think they had canister shot. Did the Russians and Japanese have it too?
didn’t find anything for the Japanese (skill issue on my part).
For the Soviets, they had on some early tanks Shrapnel shells, if I understand correctly, were similar to canister shots.
Just going to copy and paste the explanation of someone of Shrapnel Shells:
Shrapnel shells are similar to modern payload-carrying shells. They consisted of a canister full of spherical shot, with an expelling charge in the base, and a timed fuse. They would be fused such that the individual projectiles would be expelled before impact, spreading out to cover an area in shot.
Functionally, shrapnel was a way to provide the effect of canister shot at a greater distance.
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I don’t blame you; everything I find for the Japanese is mostly from US documents from WW2.
Man, everyone is going to have a canister shot 
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