T69
T69
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[Client Values; Actual values in
2,403,000 Cost |
1350270 HP Hit Points |
33.9/34.5417.2/36.56 t Weight Limit |
- Commander (Radio Operator)
- Gunner
- Driver
- Loader
460550 hp Engine Power |
51.5/20 km/h Speed Limit |
3842 deg/s Traverse |
13.5731.98 hp/t Power/Wt Ratio |
YesYes Pivot |
// mm Hull Armor |
152.4/114.3/63.5152.4/114.3/63.5 mm Turret Armor |
APCR/HEAT/HE
AP/HEAT/HE Shells |
270/5600/250
255/4000/255 Shell Cost |
150/150/185240/240/320 HP Damage |
175/210/38181/250/45 mm Penetration |
r/m ▲
12.89 r/m Magazine-fed Gun ▲
7.27 Rate of Fire Magazine-fed Gun |
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Magazine-fed Gun
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Magazine-fed Gun
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1429.5 Magazine-fed Gun ▲
Magazine-fed Gun
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Magazine-fed Gun
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1797.6 Damage Per Minute Magazine-fed Gun |
m ▲
0.38 m With 50% Crew: 0.471 m ▲
0.38 Accuracy With 50% Crew: 0.471 m |
s 2.3 s 2.9 Aim time |
3838 deg/s Turret Traverse |
360° Gun Arc |
-9°/+14°-9°/+14° Elevation Arc |
6040 rounds Ammo Capacity |
2020 % Chance of Fire |
m 400 m 400 View Range |
m 420 m 750 Signal Range |
VIII
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The T69 is an American tier 8 medium tank.
A prototype with an oscillating turret and an automatic loading system developed at the beginning of 1955 and based on the T42 experimental medium tank. The vehicle underwent trials from June 1955 through April 1956. The vehicle never entered mass production or saw service.
The T69 medium tank is similar to the French AMX 13 90. Although it is a bit slower, it has more armor and more firepower. This increases the chances of players bouncing rounds off of it, allowing some players to take on tier 9 mediums in this tank. However, it only holds 4 rounds in a magazine, meaning you have to pick your fights.
The T69 leads to the T54E1.
Modules / Available Equipment and Consumables
Modules
Tier | Suspension | Load Limit (т) |
Traverse Speed (gr/sec) |
Rmin | Weight (kg) |
Price ()
| |
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VII | T84E1 | 34.54 | 38 | 0 | 8000 | 16300 | |
VIII | T95 | 36.56 | 42 | 0 | 8000 | 33000 |
Compatible Equipment
Compatible Consumables
Player Opinion
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Autoloader with a ~2 sec reload between rounds for both the 76mm & the 90mm
- Higher armor thickness (combined with slope) than some of the other autoloader tanks
- Better gun stats with the 90 mm gun (Penetration, aiming time, weight, and rate of fire) than the tier 8 AMX 13 90
- Excellent view range
- Top radio has good range and is shared with many American heavy tanks
Cons:
- Larger profile than most other mediums, making it an easy target
- Armor doesn't stand up well to most guns tier 8 and above, but is good enough for surprise bounces, especially when enemy is
- Slower speed than some of the other medium and light tanks of the same tier
- Rather low standard AP round penetration at 173 mm of average penetration with the upgraded 90 mm gun
- Only 4 rounds in the top gun magazine vs the AMX 13 90's 6.
Performance
Play from the rear, always in support, and always with support. Use your excellent view range to your advantage. You are an excellent finisher.
As mentioned above, the autoloader reloads quite quickly between rounds - about 2 seconds - so with a full magazine you can fire repetitiously. The magazine holds 5 rounds on the 76mm, but only 4 rounds on the 90mm. The 76mm's magazine will reload in roughly 18 seconds - depending on your crew skills, equipment, and consumables, of course. The 90mm takes longer to reload - naturally - at around 24 seconds. To a player wanting a change of pace, one can try the 76mm gun even if they already have the 90mm gun. With the perk Dead Eye and the fact you're shooting more bullets you will find engines and modules will constantly feel the pain, and scouts be much easier to dispatch. Naturally, Vertical Stabilizer and Gun Laying drive are even more effective in this scenario.
Gun elevation is quite poor, but the depression is surprisingly good, which, when coupled with the high overall height of this tank, it can be used hull down in the right terrain.
Early Research
Quite a lot of the upgrades are unique only to this tank - so select them with caution, as it is a fair grind to the T54E1. That said, the stock gun is sufficient, as it has the same DPM and penetration values as the top gun, just lower alpha (more RoF from it though). The priority to research is the engines; it turns you from a slow support tank to a medium with great firepower.
Suggested Equipment
Gallery
Historical Info
The French tanks automatic loader was introduced into the feed gap of the tower, which means that you need to recharge to be outside of the tank. In combat conditions, it meant the conclusion equipment from the combat zone to recharge, which means literally a single application of a tank in combat. U.S. went ahead and fixed this huge flaw placing the store autoloader under the gun of the tank, allowing relatively quick recharge tools without leaving the tank.
T69 is equipped with 90-mm cannon T178. Automatic loader for 8 conical shells, which are located at the bottom of the tower. The cyclic rate of fire guns T178 about 18 rounds per minute. The layout of the tank - a classic. The crew consisted of 3 people. The engine power of 500 horses allowed to recruit on the highway 51 km \ h Cruising on the highway about 112 km. Suspension individual torsion bar with hydraulic shock absorbers.
From 1955 to 1956, the tank was tested at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The result was disappointing. Revealed serious problems and failures of the automatic loader. Unfortunately, for all the time that was spent on prevention of problems that have not managed to stabilize the rocking mechanism of the tower, so that the efficiency of the automatic loader was, to say the least, mediocre.
Historical Gallery