The 3.25-Inch T24 Anti-Tank Launcher was developed and tested in 1944, and is a predecessor to the 3.5-Inch T74 Anti-Tank Launcher. This would be accepted into service as the M20 Super Bazooka. To differentiate the T24 launcher from the T24 premium MG, it could be called either the “T24 Bazooka” or “T24 Super Bazooka”.
In-game, it would be just like any other infantry bazooka or Ofenrohr, as the standing bipod would be omitted. In terms of performance, the weapon is very strong: it can penetrate ~250mm of perpendicular armour. While this is a lot, it doesn’t make much of a difference in terms of what parts of a Tiger II are vulnerable from the front compared to the 200mm penetration of the Captured Ofenrohr.
The T24 rocket fired a 3.25-Inch non-rotating copper cone (Comp “B”) projectile. Based on this table, we can extrapolate the performance of this round based on the performance of the 2.36" T59 Rocket (60mm diameter, 178mm penetration) and the 3.5" M28 rocket of the Super Bazooka (89mm diameter, 276mm penetration) to get ~250mm of penetration for the 3.25" T5E1 rocket (82.55mm diameter, ~250mm pen).
BR4 so it can replace the Ofenrohr in the TT. Absolute insanity that EVERY faction had Germany’s AT weapons pawned off to them when suitable prototypes like this existed. Good topic BTW.
I remember I made a topic for a domestic Japanese high BR AT weapon a while back, but truth be told it wasn’t very in depth as there isn’t any documentation on it (or that I can find, anyways)
Isnt that pointless as the problem with the T74 wasnt the launcher itself but the rockets that werent developed until way after the war?
Just replacing the launcher (to something way more ugly) doesnt change that fact that the rockets are still not historical.
So unless you got proof that this one actually had the good rockets during the war it is a big no for me.
I am not questioning if they had any rockets at all. just if they actually had the 250mm pen one during the war. If the T24 is only a predeccesor to the T74 then it is highly unlikely that such a rocket existed or the T74 wouldnt have performedon only on par with the M6A3 rocket used by the 60mm bazzokas.
Here are some sources, to help with the timeline/suspension of belief.
Just because the Italians began manufacturing the M20 Super Bazooka at the Boshi Cinelli S.p.A. in Florence in 1953, doesn’t mean it’s when the Super Bazooka originated.
Regardless of whether this T24 was or wasn’t finished during the war or whatever, I strongly believe that the Panzerschreck MUST be removed from the Allies. I don’t care about the balance arguments, I care about faction integrity
On a separate note, we already have tons of prototypes and even some paper (Ho-Ri) then the only thing that matters is if such a weapon was made or designed during the war. That’s good enough in my book
So I read the report on the T74 and, according to the report, its rocket only had equal penetration to the regular 2.36" bazooka rocket we already have. That’s roughly inline to what I had heard, that the initial rocket developed for the super bazooka kind of sucked and the actually good one that the service M20 ended up using only appeared after the war. Regardless, because of the T74’s penetration it would not be suitable as a replacement for the Ofenrohr.
That’s a very illogical stance to have, this is an online pvp video game balance is one of the most important things to consider.
Nitpicking but Italian produced rockets were actually used by US and Allied armies so it was not for themselves.
Anyway, I posted the museum link because its better source than a random facebook post and it does make it pretty clear that the rocket is a Korean war thing and has nothing to do with WW2, though US production was set up earlier than 1953, it was still the Korean war that revived the project.
So its anachronistic to use Superbazooka to estimate the pen of a WW2 rocket.
Just use WW2 weapon system to estimate the pen.
