![]() ![]() The secondary armament consisted of one coaxial 7.92 mm Besa machine gun mounted in the turret, second Besa machine gun fitted in the hull and 2-inch mortar in the turret roof. The main armament of the Churchill Mark IV was the Ordnance Quick-Firing (QF) 6-pounder gun of 57mm caliber. The tank’s top speed was around 24 km/h (15 mph), but Soviet tests claimed that a Churchill Mark III reached 28 km/h (17 mph). A Bedford 12-cylinder gasoline engine powered the tank and capable of 350 horsepower. ![]() Virtually identical to the Churchill Mark III, the main difference being a cheaper and better-protected cast turret. The Churchill Mark IV was the most numerous of the series, with 1,622 produced. The versatile chassis design was used as the basis for many specialized vehicles throughout the war. It saw action in North Africa, Italy, and on the Eastern Front. ![]() One of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war, the Churchill entered the war during the Dieppe Raid in France in August 1942. IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew allows players to command a tank crew in single and multiplayer environments and battle enemies in highly-detailed intense missions with grueling combat where maneuverability and exposing tank vulnerabilities is vital to surviving and winning. The game can be enjoyed as either a stand-alone product or integrated with other Great Battles titles such as Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Moscow, Battle of Kuban and Battle of Bodenplatte to create a massive WWII air and ground combat simulation. In IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew, players operate some of WWII’s greatest battle tanks in close quarters ground combat missions during the Battle of Kursk. The Churchill update includes the release of the Churchill Mark IV battle tank which was used in WWII and a lot more which you can read about here. Today, 1C Game Studios released the Churchill update for their WWII tank simulator IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew – Clash of Prokhorovka, which is just one part of the Great Battles series for IL-2 Sturmovik. ![]()
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