CMD Cromwell IV is a British Tank unit.
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One of the cruiser tanks developed and employed by Great Britain, named after Oliver Cromwell, the A27M Cruiser entered service in 1944. The result of a long and complicated development history starting in 1940, the Cromwell was intended to be a replacement for the then-new Crusader as the A24 Cromwell. By 1942, different design ideas by the major British tank designers culminated in three different variants: The Nuffield A24 Cromwell I (eventually renamed Cavalier), Leyland A27L Cromwell II (Centaur), and the BRC&W A27M Cromwell III.
The Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon eventually became the Cromwell tank as it came to be known. Changing production circumstances and tactical requirements burther modified the design, leading to the inclusion of dual-purpose 75mm tank guns based on the performance of Lend-Lease M4 Shermans. Further improvements and modifications of the Cromwell until the first production variant, Cromwell IV, entered service. The distinguishing feature was the 600 HP Rolls-Royse Meteor aircraft engine, which gave the Cromwell an excellent power-to-weight ratio and made it the fastest tank in British service.
The IV was a Centaur hull with the Royal Ordnance Quick Firing 75mm tank gun (a 6-pounder gun bored out to accommodate rounds for the M4 Sherman) with a coaxial 7.92mm BESA machine gun and another in the hull. A bomb projector was mounted on the roof of the turret for deploying smoke. Armor was up to 76mm on the front and 8mm in the rear. Command tanks were outfitted with more powerful radios to coordinate tank platoons.
CMD Cromwell IV represent in the Guards Armoured command tanks of the Battalion, Welsh Guards which served as the Armored Reconnaissance Regiment.
A squadron of 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment of 6th Airborne which landed in Normandy with Tetrarch had replaced them with Cromwell Tanks after the linkup with the Seaborne elements of the division. CMD Cromwell IV represent the command elements of the Tank Squadron.
CMD Cromwell IV represent the command elements of the 22nd Armored Brigade of the 7th Armoured which had all of the Armored Regiments equipped with Cromwell Tanks.
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