| After a lack of success with conventional and flame
tank variants on the Christie chassis, it was decided to use the remaining chassis
to mount captured Soviet antitank guns. The hull and suspension was unmodified
from the earlier models, but the superstructure was built up to provide a large
fighting compartment on top of which was mounted a Soviet 76.2 mm antitank gun,
which while not turretted, did have significant traverse. Only developed as an
interim solution, the vehicle was clearly too tall and poorly protected, but had
a powerful weapon and was better than what the Germans had at the time. |