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Heavy Tank, TOG II | |
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![]() TOG II* at The Tank Museum, Bovington | |
Type | Super-heavy tank |
Place of origin | United Kingdom |
Production history | |
Designed | 1940[1] |
Manufacturer | William Foster & Co.[1] |
Produced | 1941[1] |
No. built | 1 prototype |
Specifications (TOG 2*) | |
Mass | 80 long tons (81.3 metric tons)[2] |
Length | 10.13 m (33 ft 3 in)[2] |
Width | 3.12 m (10 ft 3 in)[2] |
Height | 3.05 m (10 ft 0 in)[2] |
Crew | 6 (Commander, gunner, 2 loaders, driver, co-driver) |
Armour | 114 mm at the front of the turret and hull 76 mm at the sides of the hull, 50 mm at the rear of the tank[3] cemented armour on 12.7 mm (0.5 inch) mild steel |
Main armament | Ordnance QF 17-pounder |
Secondary armament | 7.92 mm Besa machine gun |
Engine | Paxman-Ricardo 12-cylinder diesel-electric 600 hp (450 kW) |
Power/weight | 7.5 hp/t |
Transmission | 2 electric motors |
Suspension | unsprung torsion bar (TOG II*) |
Operational range | 50 mi (80 km)[2] |
Maximum speed | 8.5 mph (13.7 km/h) (achieved)[2] 15 mph (24 km/h) (theoretical)[4][page needed] |
The TOG2, officially known as the Heavy Tank, TOG II, was a British super-heavy tank design produced during the early stages of World War II for a scenario where the battlefields of northern France devolved into a morass of mud, trenches, and craters as had happened during World War I. When this did not happen, the tank was deemed unnecessary, and the project terminated. A development of the TOG I design, only a single prototype was built before its termination.[5]