Full-scale production of T25 and T26 tanks could actually begin in the spring of 1944, if this process had not been artificially slowed down. The fact is that since the beginning of World War II, in the American army, in addition to armored, there was a separate branch of the army - self-propelled tank destroyers. According to the plan of the American military, it was the fighters who had to fight the tanks - lightly armored, but powerfully armed. In the summer of 1944, such a machine - a M36 armed with a 90 mm cannon, was put into mass production. However, the Normandy landing in June 1944 quickly confirmed that the absence of heavily armored tanks in the army was a serious miscalculation of command. Normandy is not Tunisia, and German tanks well disguised among hedges quickly cracked down on M4.