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Originally Posted by Mike Kelly
Australian built Cruiser tanks sold as scrap in 1946. Just a couple of years before 1946, all of the effort, research and manufacturing cost and it's thrown away as junk in such a short time. Madness. Were these tanks deemed to be obsolete in such a short time ?
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Yes. The Sentinel was mostly inferior to tanks like the Sherman, and even the Grant and Lee in some ways. At the same time, any country that wanted tanks in 1946 could pretty much get as many Shermans as they liked, thereby also benefitting from the large amounts of spare parts available for them, unlike for the Sentinel. So, Australia had no need of Sentinels itself and no countries to sell them to either. Might as well just about give them away to anyone who thinks they have a use for them.