smoke grenades fitted to tanks

[[FERGIE]]

Nowadays i know that almost all armoured vehicles (tanks, armoured personnel carriers etc.) carry on their turrets small tubes, usually bunched up in threes, to launch smoke in front of them so other tanks, anti tank soldiers etc. cant see them if they need to pull out if damaged, or the crew need to bail out etc u get the point. I was wondering if these smoke grenades/launchers were present on the armoured vehicles during ww2, and if so they could be fitted to give an even more tactical element to the gameplay.

 

[Moz]

I believe some of the german tanks had them

 

[Wolfstuka]

i know that the tiger 1 had smoke dischargers im not sure though about the tiger 2

 

[Verluste21]

In the close combat games, you could nearly always let the tanks fire smoke grenades.

 

[kabex]

Almost all German tanks had them after 1943... Pz 3, 4, 5, 6, 6-2, StuGs, etc.

They were called Nahverteidigungswaffe (Close Defense Weapon). Only German tanks had these weapons.

They could fire smoke and high explosive shells(anti-infantry).

http://www.custermen.net/nahvert/nah.htm

Many tanks had smoke shells that would be fired from the main gun(like AP, HE, etc).

 

[Recce]

I'm sure that smoke lanchers or smoke pots were fitted to the T-34, but not until late '44 or '45. I'll have to get back to you with the details

 

[The_Cook]

eh.... I vote no on smoke for tanks. I love smoke, but there is such a thing as too much smoke. I can see smoke for tanks turning into a tank battle in silent hill, where you shoot the enemy when he pops out of the perpetual smoke bank and engages you at point blank range.