The Best That Never Was 2 (Prototypes)

[Draq]

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[Draq]

Also stats for the Davey Crockett would be awesome, mostly for shiggles.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

I thought someone had done stats for the Davey Crockett

[Draq]

Very possible, but I haven't found it.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

And I think I know why...
After checking a few old websites for game, I found a large number of them are dead links and I'm sure one of them had stats for the Davy Crockett.
Some of these sites must have been dead for a while because I can't even find them on the Internet Wayback Machine!
Show's how often I actually checked them haha.

[Draq]

So... While cruising through soviet-afghan war picture on pintrest I came across a picture of a leopard 1 with a t-72 turret... But I haven't been able to find any info at all. Seems like the kind of franken-tank that would be done in t2k... Providing its a feasible feat of mechanical engineering.

[Draq]

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[Brit]

A quick Google of 'Leopold 1 T72 turret' brings up a 'colourised' version of that picture and some other sites / photos... none of which I have access too! The JED site is one of them.

I don't have the link anymore but I did once see a model somebody had made of a T72 hull with a Leopold 2 turret. The back story was that Poland had in, I believe , the 'real world' decided to update their tanks that way. It was said they then realised it was cheaper and easier to simply buy surplus Leopold 2 tanks from Germany and presumably sell on or scrap the T72s...

[Brit]

I couldn't find the site where I originally saw it but there are pictures here of I think the same model T72 with Leopold 2 turret. Very 'Twilight 2000'!

http://home.comcast.net/~mksheppard/SPCAMO/PolishT72/PolishT72.htm

There is a bit more about the T72 / Leopold 1 hybrid here:

http://z12.invisionfree.com/ScaleModelsMalaysia/ar/t4035.htm

[Draq]

Thanx Brit

[Brit]

That's OK. Prowling the 'what if' modelling websites is one of my interests...

Of course, having now properly read what you posted I now realise that it was a Leopold 1 hull with a T72 turret... so... is the opposite version therefore a possibility

I have also seen photos of a 'testbed' tank which was an M48 (I think) with a Leopold 2 turret. Again, all very 'Twilight 2000'. And when the Merkava was being developed I think it's turret was first fitted to an M48 or M60 hull... or was it the other way around

[Draq]

Or the m60 with a m1 turret

[Tegyrius]

I want an M1 with an M1 turret with a Bradley turret with an AAVP7A1 turret.

- C.

[swaghauler]

Also stats for the Davey Crockett would be awesome, mostly for shiggles.

I remember reading somewhere that the Nominal Yield was between 2 and 5 KiloTons. The older Nukes often had variable yield warheads (the old 8" with its variable yield package immediately comes to mind). If Ft Sill has its artillery museum on line, you may be able to find more info there. They have one on display. They also have "Atomic Anne," the first Nuke capable howitzer.

[ArmySGT.]