The American ran out of CSA generals pretty early on so this feature had to be cut after the first few batches of Stuarts. Not to mention the short supply of Hellfire shells.

This was a good idea but it was later discarded since the water took up space and it turned out that moving the ammunition below the panniers made a direct hit to the racks unlikely anyway.

Ammunition was stored in bins with hollow walls. The hollow walls were filled with water, so that if a projectile penetrates the bin the water will spill out and put out the fire, preventing a devastating ammunition explosion.

Read about Soviet impressions of Sherman tanks on the proving grounds and on the battlefield in my book, Sherman Tanks of the Red Army.

Can't help you there, my interest in a vehicle declines rapidly once you start adding wheels to it.

These are the numbers I have: www.tankarchives.com/2022/01/fore...

Sadly they're not annotated but I know that the bottom line is non-tank AFVs. 650 GMC T48, 1000 MGMC M17, 100 CGMC M15, 113 M2 halftracks and 127 "ARVs" of some kind which I don't know if they were fully tracked.

Out of my last 10 posts about tanks, 3 (4 if you count Valentines in the Red Army) has been about Soviet tanks. Zero have been about Russian tanks.