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AT-2 Heavy Assault Tank
The AT-2 Heavy Assault Tank was designed for an assault tank to break through enemy defensive lines. The design was completed by May 15th, 1943. No prototypes were built, the project helped set the stage for another heavy assault tank, the A39Tortoise.

Development
AT-2 is a Nuffield Mechanizations Limited design from May 1943. Total weight was estimated at 41 tons, and the vehicle was running on torsion bar suspension. It was introduced along with the AT-1 design, which had a turret that could mount a 75 mm high velocity gun or a 95 mm howitzer. With AT-2, it was decided an assault tank doesn't need a turret and so it was replaced with a fully enclosed superstructure. Both designs shared the same hull, but since AT-2 was supposed to have a casemate construction, it should have been around 4 tons lighter, and considerably cheaper to produced compared to the AT-1.