![]() However, the 43-caliber gun was very successful. The first versions of the anti-tank (Mk.II) and tank guns (Mk.III) were shorter than the original design. ![]() The 6-pound (57 mm) anti-tank gun, work on which began in 1938, claimed the role of the main armament. Then, in 1941, work began to improve the weapons of British tanks in mass production. Obsolescence of a 2-pounder gun for the British became apparent after the first clashes with German tanks in North Africa in the Spring and Summer of 1941. This was especially true for the Valentine IX, the version with a 6-pounder cannon, which had to revert to the two-man turret. Even though the British themselves nearly stopped using it by the Spring of 1943, they were still in demand with the Red Army. The Valentine remained the only type of tank sent by the British in large numbers. ![]() Matilda tanks were no longer sent, the Churchill nearly vanished from shipping manifests. In the Spring of 1943, the variety of British tanks sent to the USSR dropped radically.
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