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The SOMUA SM is a French experimental tank, developed in the immediate postwar years as an alternative to the AMX-50 being developed in parallel at the time. Despite it being the AMX which ultimately entered service, this won’t stop the SOMUA SM from joining the ranks of the French ground forces tree in the upcoming War Thunder update!
Briefly: The alternative design to the AMX-50, featuring heavier armor protection at the expense of mobility.
SOMUA SM, heavy tank, premium, France, IV rank.
Pros
- Excellent 100mm cannon
- Autoloading mechanism
- Good hull protection
- Premium bonuses
Cons
- Low armour protection for the turret
- High combat weight
- Average mobility
- Somua SM (Rank 4 France) - available after the next Major Update;
- 1000 Golden Eagles;
- Premium account for 7 days;
- Pre-order bonus: unique "Savate Boxer" decal;
- Pre-order bonus: unique "Savate Master" title.
In 1946, at the same time when AMX was given the order to develop what would eventually become the AMX-50 tank, SOMUA was instructed to come up with a competing design that would act as an alternative to the AMX.
Due to both companies being issued identical technical requirements by the French Army and taking much inspiration from the German “King Tiger” at the same time, both designs turned out to be very similar. In fact, SOMUA’s design stood out from AMX’s only in increased mass, coming as a result of heavier protection, and in its more simple running gear.
The SOMUA SM, as it became known, was presented for the first time to army officials in October 1951, albeit without its engine installed. At the same time, prototypes of the AMX-50 had already been tested. By 1953, SOMUA had completed the construction of its SM tank, subsequently conducting trials.
During testing however, several design issues were revealed. Because of this and the fact that the upgunned version of the AMX-50 with a 120mm gun was already available, the decision was made to cancel further work on the project. As a result, the SOMUA SM never left the prototype stage and the only constructed vehicle was scrapped shortly after the project’s cancellation.
In War Thunder, the SOMUA SM will be a new premium heavy tank awaiting commanders at rank IV of the French ground forces tree, following the release of the upcoming major update. Unlike its close relatives - the AMX-50 and Lorraine 40t - which share a similar general design, the SOMUA SM offers its future commanders a slower, but much more heavily armored platform, carrying the excellent French 100mm cannon.
As already mentioned, the SOMUA SM is fitted with the proven 100mm SA47 anti-tank cannon, present on a number of French machines at rank IV and therefore all too familiar to tankers. Furthermore, the SOMUA SM is also equipped with the same autoloading mechanism as found on the AMX-50, giving it an astonishing reload rate of just 4 seconds!
Some keen-eyed tankers may have already noticed an extreme resemblance in the SOMUA SM’s turret to that of the AMX-50. And indeed, your eyes are not playing tricks on you - the turret is similar in design and with the protection it offers to that of the AMX-50. On the other hand however, the hull of the SOMUA SM offers vastly better protection than that of the AMX-50, featuring a much thicker 150mm frontal plate, while the side and rear armor was also thickened.
Although the SOMUA SM offers improved protection while retaining identical levels of firepower as the AMX-50, these improvements do come at the cost of mobility SOMUA SM is fitted with the same 1,000 horsepower engine as the AMX-50, but its mass increased to 60 tons, the vehicle’s mobility decreased as a result. As such, the SOMUA SM can only reach a top speed of 40 km/h under ideal conditions, while its modest power-to-weight ratio of 16.6 hp/t will further limit its mobility in off road conditions.
The SOMUA SM will be obtainable through the purchase of a special bundle in our online store, arriving in the hangars of its prospective owners with the release of the next major update. In the meantime, make sure to stay tuned to the news in order not to miss out on the latest information concerning the next major update coming to the game. Until then, happy hunting tankers!
The War Thunder Team
Comments (223)
For PC master race players, you guys sure do complain a lot like holy cow so what every nation has stock heat. Who cares? Other nations had them like all 4 Abrams. Play arcade or the ground assault mode till you get them. You crying should be a reason they don't make them stock
wellp i got mine fl11 thats fine and yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh who nned this when i have just tiger2 105mm lmao dont need any copy of that
stock apfsds when
Cool but can I have stock APFSDS? Would be really cool for next patch! Another copy paste premium? Who cares give us what we want. A-10 warthog, and stock apfsds. For those of you saying "oh just grind through the heat, its not THAT hard1!!1!1!" Shut up, no one likes you and you are annoying. Heatfs is like firing a nerf dart, it does absolutely nothing, but ohhh. we are the ones whining... Gaijin, stop being so greedy. We want a game, not a store
I like this premium tank, I buy almost everything, and who doesn't like it, let it go very far, only socially weak individuals can criticize.
so from 2000 to 1000 GE, and 14 to 7 days premium. yeah im done buying
People wanted stock apfsds for all tanks and instead you remove it? Bravo gaijin that's some peak decision making, how about not creating new issues and restoring the stock apfsds rounds? Like since you refuse to address the problems can you at least not create new ones? Personally I was considering making a new purchase (the CV) now you just gave me a reason to go back to my old stance of not giving you anymore money
seeing a lot of comment of return apfsds lmao.I agree to the changes of all stock heat-fs for high tier, but the only thing I can say is just lower the cost for the first starter adfsds as like they did to the parts and fpe module as a compromise since, i doubful they will revert to to the free apfsds stock for high tier tanks. even though high tier is already unbalance for a while... so I dont know why people are crying about the change, even though there way more issues in high tier than this
Nice dev blog, now when are you planning on adding stock apfsds back?
Karelia when are you going to end the unbalanced unfair advantage of enemies being able to drive into,shoot across camp on the top spawn ? by allowing this to happen you alienate,destroy,drive away,new players who will say war thunder is a game for cheats and only want your money,Karelia,and others need to have their spawns protected or moved from the ability to take unfair advantage to farm cheap kill at players expense,you encourage cheating and unfair play by allowing this to happen.
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