I ran across the TV-8 in one of R. P. Hunnicutt's books that my local library had. The plan was to build prototypes with a petrol-electric drive (powered by a 300 horsepower engine) and then figure out whether to switch to another powerplant, with nuclear as one of the options and a gas turbine as another. The design also had a waterjet at the bottom rear of the turret, because it was supposed to be amphibious.
The main gun was the 90mm T208, which had also been fitted to the T95 medium tank, with a pair of coaxial .30 calibre machineguns and a remote turret with a .50 cal AA gun on top.
The hull had only 20mm of armor, while the turret had frontal armor of 70mm at 68 degrees (effective thickness 187mm) and sides of 80mm at 45 degrees (effective thickness 113mm), plus an outer shell of ~10mm to act as spaced armor against HEAT warheads.
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