Blackcloud6
Elder Member
Note in this video the preparation to fire and how much is done with the Stabilizer.
I have never found anything outside of anecdotes and frankly, little sourcing that says this really occurred. This may be a case of "circular reporting" where a notion takes on a life of its own.I haven't found any information on what percent used vs. didn't use the stabilizer. This says it was a concern during the war: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/442747-us-gyrostabiliser-issues/. The "fact" that stabilizers were disabled is repeated widely, but I have not been able to find any quantitative information.
JR
Not too bad, but a little thin on talking about the stabilizer. Well worth the read however. It falls into line with my past reads of articles presented in the U.S. Army's ARMOR magazine about the development of armor and armor tactics which basically said it was kind of a hit & miss affair with usage, but probably less rare to have newer units disregard the use of a stabilized system because their training utilized it as a matter of course. I wasn't aware of the differences in manufactures (though probably should have inferred as much by the many different manufacturers of the M4 models), so I found that quite interesting. Thanks for the link.Here a good read, scroll to ‘The Westinghouse stabilizer‘ for some info. The whole site is interesting.
http://www.theshermantank.com/category/stabilizer/