TOG2
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The TOG 2, 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 and Belgium 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.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Heavy Tank, TOG II
- Weapon.image
- File:TOG 2 front-left 2017 Bovington.jpg
- Weapon.caption
- TOG II* at The Tank Museum, Bovington
- Weapon.design_date
- 1940
- Weapon.production_date
- 1941
- Weapon.manufacturer
- William Foster & Co.
- Weapon.origin
- United Kingdom
- Weapon.type
- Super-heavy tank
- Weapon.number
- 1 prototype
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.is_UK
- yes
- Weapon.spec_label
- TOG 2*
- Weapon.weight
- 80 long tons (81.3 metric tons)
- Weapon.suspension
- unsprung torsion bar (TOG II*)
- Weapon.speed
- (achieved) (theoretical)
- Weapon.primary_armament
- 28-pounder gun
- Weapon.secondary_armament
- 7.92 mm Besa machine gun
- Weapon.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 cemented armour on 12.7 mm (0.5 inch) mild steel
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- TOG II.jpg
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The TOG 2, 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 and Belgium 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.
==History== The second design to come out of the Special Vehicle Development Committee (nicknamed "The Old Gang" as it was made up of people who had worked on the original British tanks of the First World War) the TOG 2 was similar to the TOG 1 and kept many of its features. Instead of the track path arrangement of the TOG 1 which – like that of the First World War British tanks – ran up over the top of the hull and back down, the track path was lower on the return run and the doors were above the tracks. Ordered in 1940, built by Foster's of Lincoln, the prototype ran for the first time in March 1941. In April 1941 an enquiry was made by the Deputy Director-General of Tanks and Transport to the English Electric Company see if 100 could be produced. In June 1941 the Minister of Supply enquired about the production of 50 tanks. Neither of these inquiries lead to production orders.
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