Conway

Conway

Tortoise

Swingfire

Conway

Tortoise

Swingfire

Britain

IV Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
6.7	7.0	7.0

Class:

Tank destroyer

Research:35 000

Purchase:210 000

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Description

The FV4004 Conway is a rank IV British tank destroyer with a battle rating of 6.7 (AB) and 7.0 (RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.57 "Battle March". It is armed with a cannon developed to take on the heavy Soviet IS-3 tank. It excels in fighting the top-rank heavies.

The Conway plays similarly to the FV4005. It has sub-par armour on all sides and has a very large-calibre gun, able to penetrate everything it faces, severely damaging most. However the incredibly high-velocity APDS, fast turret traverse and short reload time differ distinctly from the FV4005. It can be played as an usual tank destroyer, excelling at it with its high velocity APDS rounds, sniping from a distance.

General info

Survivability and armour

Smoke grenades

Creation of a smoke screen in front of the vehicle

Armourfront / side / back

Hull76 / 51 / 38

Turret132 / 47 / 30

Crew4 people

Visibility150 %

The turret front can shrug off smaller calibre rounds at long range and is resistant to autocannon and HMGs, unlike the FV4005.

Armour type:

• Rolled homogeneous armour
• Cast homogeneous armour (Gun mantlet)

Armour	Front	Sides	Rear	Roof
Hull	76.2 mm (58°) Front glacis 76.2 mm (47-48°) Lower glacis	50.8 (12°) + 6 mm	38 mm (8-12°)	29 mm 8-14 mm Engine deck
Turret	132 mm (19°) Turret front 140 mm (7-61°) Gun Mantlet	95 mm (0-6°) Front 47 mm (2°) Middle 30 mm Rear	30 mm Border 20 mm Hatch	17 mm
Cupola	47 mm	47 mm Right 30 mm Left	30 mm	47 mm

Notes:

• Suspension wheels are 20 mm thick while tracks are 30 mm thick.
• Turret sides are angled, causing inaccurate shots to bounce.

Mobility

Speedforward / back

AB41 / 14 km/h

RB and SB38 / 13 km/h

Number of gears5 forward

1 back

Weight49.8 t

Engine power

AB1 212 hp

RB and SB635 hp

Power-to-weight ratio

AB24.3 hp/t

RB and SB12.8 hp/t

The Conway possesses average mobility. The chassis is identical to that of the Centurion Mk 3 tank, but with a heavier turret, causing slightly worse mobility than the MBT. When stock, the Conway can be very sluggish, especially when driving uphill. With tracks, brakes and engine modules researched, it becomes mobile to an acceptable degree, but still not enough to be an ambusher.

The Conway has a fair top speed, but shines significantly with its -12 km/h reverse speed, allowing the Conway to peak, fire and swiftly retreat into cover.

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
	Forward	Reverse		Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade	41	14	49.8	902	1,212	18.11	24.34
Realistic	38	13		562	635	11.29	12.75

Modifications and economy

Repair costBasic → Reference

AB4 056 → 5 264

RB4 573 → 5 935

SB6 670 → 8 657

Total cost of modifications61 400

102 100

Talisman cost1 800

Crew training61 000

Experts210 000

Aces890

Research Aces570 000

Reward for battleAB / RB / SB

130 / 210 / 240 %

178 / 178 / 178 %

Modifications

Mobility	Protection	Firepower
Tracks Research: 4 100 Cost: 6 800 170 Suspension Research: 3 500 Cost: 5 800 145 Brake System Research: 3 500 Cost: 5 800 145 Filters Research: 5 100 Cost: 8 500 210 Transmission Research: 6 600 Cost: 11 000 280 Engine Research: 6 600 Cost: 11 000 280	Improved Parts Research: 4 100 Cost: 6 800 170 Improved FPE Research: 3 500 Cost: 5 800 145 Crew Replenishment Research: 5 100 Cost: 8 500 210	Horizontal Drive Research: 4 100 Cost: 6 800 170 Adjustment of Fire Research: 3 500 Cost: 5 800 145 Elevation Mechanism Research: 5 100 Cost: 8 500 210 Smoke grenade Research: 6 600 Cost: 11 000 280

The first upgrades to research are "Parts" and "FPE" for increased survivability. Once you got these two, go for "Adjustment of Fire" and "Elevation Mechanism", since these modules increase the accuracy of the gun.

Armaments

Main armament

120 mm Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2 cannon

Ammunition20 rounds

First-order4 rounds

Reloadbasic crew → aces

19.4 → 14.9 s

Vertical guidance-5° / 10°

The most notable attribute of the Conway is the 120 mm OQF Tk. L1A2 cannon. The gun is capable of firing devastating APDS rounds with over 300 mm of penetration, even beyond 2km, as well as slower HESH rounds useful for overpressurizing or indirect fire against entrenched targets.

Both ammunition types for the 120 mm cannon are available stock, and you will most of the time make use of the APDS round, as it is significantly superior in offensive capability compared to the more specialized HESH round (Which functions like HE on similar tanks).

The Conway suffers from bad gun depression angles as well as a long reload time. If you do not take out your enemy in one shot, they have plenty of time to retreat before you've reloaded.

120 mm Ordnance QF Tk. L1A2					Turret rotation speed (°/s)					Reloading rate (seconds)
Mode	Capacity	Vertical	Horizontal	Stabilizer	Stock	Upgraded	Full	Expert	Aced	Stock	Full	Expert	Aced
Arcade	20	-5°/+10°	±180°	N/A	15.8	21.9	26.6	29.5	31.3	19.37	17.14	15.79	14.90
Realistic					10.7	12.6	15.3	16.9	18.0

Ammunition

The Shot L1G is the primary round in the Conway's arsenal, which is capable of frontally piercing tanks like Tigers, IS-3s, T26E5s or even the Mouse with ease. The round combines incredible shell velocity (around 1500 m/s) and penetration against both flat and angled armor plates. The problem however comes with its post-penetration damage. As long as Conway faces well armored opponents from the front or rear the damage is usually enough to one-shot an enemy or at the very least incapacitate him from retaliating.

Things get tricky when faced against enemies who either don't have much armor or are sideways towards Conway. The amount of spalling caused by Shot L1G usually won't be enough to one-shot an enemy.

Shell L1TK against T-54 (1947)'s frontal plate.

Conway also has access to Shell L1TK, a HESH round, loaded with almost 4kgs of HE. It has an average velocity and quite bad ballistic perfomance. The round's penetration may seem unsatisfactory at first but because of the way in which HESH shells work, it is capable of going through many well-angled and even extremely-angled plates. However, due to the inconsistent performance of this shell using it requires a lot of practice. While shooting a very lightly-armored target should usually result in its instant death, larger targets will cause problems. If the round lands in the center of the target the damage will be miniscule so it is advised to aim at unusual places, like the roofs or sides of the turrets. It is also important to take into account that HESH rounds are very ineffective against any kinds of armored screens or spaced armor.

Shell L1TK's performance against 5mm armored screens on Panzer IV H

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
Shot L1G	APDS	502	496	474	447	422	398
Shell L1TK	HESH	152	152	152	152	152	152

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
Shot L1G	APDS	1,493	6.37	-	-	-	75°	78°	80°
Shell L1TK	HESH	792	15.87	0.1	4	3.97	73°	77°	80°

Ammo racks

Ammo racks of the Conway

Full ammo	Ammo part	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	4th rack empty	Visual discrepancy
20	Projectiles Propellants	18 (+2) 20 (+0)	17 (+3) 14 (+6)	5 (+15) 5 (+15)	1 (+19) 1 (+19)	No

Notes:

• The Conway uses two-piece ammunition, composed of projectiles (yellow) and propellant bags (orange). Both have separate racks.
• Projectile and propellant racks 4 are first-stage ammo racks.

Machine guns

7.62 mm L3A1 machine gun (coaxial)

Ammunition3 750 rounds

Belt capacity250 rounds

Reloadbasic crew → aces

10.4 → 8.0 s

Fire rate500 shots/min

7.62 mm L3A1
Mount	Capacity (Belt)	Fire rate	Vertical	Horizontal
Coaxial	3,750 (250)	500	N/A	N/A

Usage in battles

As a tank destroyer, you might want to go for heavy tank hunt. In this case, you should check the battle rating of opposing team. Despite having heavy gun, your best bet in uptier would be long range flank sniping. This is due to APDS doing less damage to crew and components, the thicker the armour it penetrated was, thus doing minimal damage through heavy tank's frontal armour. As such, you are less dangerous to superheavy tanks (especially the ones from 8.0) from front, compared to FV 4005, which many players will mistake you for. You still can penetrate most of breakthrough tanks, forcing them to retreat or slip up at critical moment. Since APDS is super high velocity, you can snipe across the map with little issue, and do fatal damage from sides.

To everything else you are extremely dangerous, and, if detected, have some presence factor. This can be beneficial and bad at same time, since you can scare off heavy tanks and attract medium and light tanks, and even other SPGs. Your turret might hold off a few stray shots from distant or weak opponents, but your hull is still quite fragile, and reload times are still too long, so there is no room for mistakes at close range duels. For these reasons, if possible, adversaries must be kept away from you, so their guns are inadequate at fighting you, your hull must be kept hidden, and enemy SPG and "sniper" oriented medium tanks must be neutralized on sight.

In case a light vehicle is stalking you, it's better to just load HESH, provoke the enemy, then hopefully blast them away. Heavily-armoured vehicles are still more vulnerable to APDS than HESH regardless of range, unless you hit them at specific weak spots with it.

Pros and cons

Pros:

• Very powerful 120 mm gun
• Excellent long range support thanks to the high muzzle velocity of the APDS shells
• Large calibre APDS still often leads to one-shots
• High-penetration APDS rounds

Cons:

• Unreliable armour profile
• Low mobility
• Tall profile
• Only carries a maximum of 20 shells
• Long reload time
• Insufficient gun depression

History

When the Centurion tanks entered service in British service in 1945, the British didn't take into account the sudden appearance of the Soviet IS-3. The IS-3 tank showed the Western Allies needed to reconsider their tank inventories, which at the time the IS-3 was introduced only composed of mostly M4 Sherman, M26 Pershing, and Centurions. The British, recognizing the need for a bigger gun to fight the IS-3, started producing the Conqueror. However, development takes time and the Conqueror would not be ready until 1955. As an interim project until it is done, the British took a Centurion Mk 3 tank and upgraded with a new turret made from rolled plate that can mount the 120 mm L1 gun, the same gun meant for the Conqueror. This vehicle, designated the FV4004 Conway was to have the heavy armament, yet the same manoeuvrability as the base Centurion. One of such vehicle was made in this matter before the whole thing was cancelled in 1951. The sole piece made is now stored at the Bovington Tank Museum.

Another attempt at this kind of mounting with the Centurion was the FV4005, which was meant to be a tank destroyer with a larger 183 mm gun. The project started in 1951 and developed in July 1955. The gun was mounted in a similar fashion as the Conway on a lightly armoured turret. This was a limited production and by August 1957, the whole project was disassembled. The FV4005 also has survived in the Bovington Tank Museum.

Media

Skins

• Skins and camouflages for the Conway from live.warthunder.com.

See also

Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:

• reference to the series of the vehicles;
• links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.

External links

• [Devblog] FV4004 Conway: IS Hunter
• [Wikipedia] Centurion (tank) - Fighting Vehicle numbers

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See also	US Ordnance Department · Israeli Ordnance Corps · Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
	*By successor, the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment
	**Swedish modernizations incorporating innovations from the Israeli Sho't Kals.

Britain tank destroyers
Infantry tank derivatives	Archer · Gun Carrier (3-in)
Light tank derivatives	Alecto I
M10 Achilles	Achilles · Achilles (65 Rg.)
Centurion derivatives	FV4005 · Conway
ATGM	Swingfire · Striker
Other	Tortoise · ▄M109A1
Canada	QF 3.7 Ram
South Africa	G6 · ZT3A2