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Originally posted by ArmySGT. View PostReal world example>>> AMX-30
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Originally posted by Draq View PostIn context of the later stages of the war, would it be more complicated to build casemated turrets or traditional ones
"Hypothetical T-55 based tank destroyer":
"KaJaPa Zehn-Fnf":
"Well, it IS a Jagdpanzer Kanone, with a proposed/theoretical upgrade from 90mm to 105mm".
The Goliath tank "as pictured in Kenneth Macksey's Tank Versus Tank book":
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I've also seen a 'what if' casement tank built on I think a M48 chassis. The 'back story' quoted Twilight 2000 and said it was a war damaged tank rebuilt.
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Originally posted by ArmySGT. View PostReal world example>>> AMX-30Originally posted by copeab View PostAlso, very early Centurions mounted a 20mm coaxisl gun. IIRC, it was capable of elevating higher than the main gun, specifically for AA use.
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Originally posted by CDAT View PostThe prototype that I saw at the Patton Museum implied that it had been done before and I had heard that the french did it but did not know for sure who had.
Worth noting that it was common for most WWII tanks to have the coaxial MG be removable by the crew in the field and a tripod provided so it could be operated from the tank. I think this was most common in American and German tanks.
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Originally posted by copeab View PostIt appears the Mk I and II Centurions mounted the 20mm but the Mk III, which went from a 17-pdr to a 20-pdr, had to drop to a BESA MG.
Worth noting that it was common for most WWII tanks to have the coaxial MG be removable by the crew in the field and a tripod provided so it could be operated from the tank. I think this was most common in American and German tanks.
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A "could have been ()" the 'Jagdchieftain':
Anyone around with 3 views of the "JagdChieftain" assault project on Chieftain chassis ? I discovered that through a small pix in Wheel & tracks and it would make a nice modelling subject for using poor 60's-issues kits of early Chieftain (Imai etc...) JCC
I'm sure I read that it was / maybe still is a runner although it seems that the gun may have been a dummy.
A similar vehicle with two guns was built around the same time on the Leopold 1 chassis.
Second photo down here:
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Most photos here. It seems that the Leopold version was tested / planned in both 105mm and 120mm versions.
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There was the British Tortoise:
and American T28:
both designed in WWII.
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VW Vanagon
For ArmySgt, since you asked:
VW Type 2 (T3) of the 1980s - a.k.a. the Microbus
(T2 similar)
"So we took the half-a-ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
Microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction, and headed
On toward the city dump."
- Alice's Restaurant, A GuthrieAttached Files
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Originally posted by unkated View PostFor ArmySgt, since you asked:
VW Type 2 (T3) of the 1980s - a.k.a. the Microbus
(T2 similar)
"So we took the half-a-ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
Microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction, and headed
On toward the city dump."
- Alice's Restaurant, A Guthrie
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Originally posted by ArmySGT. View PostThanks....... If I ever get the time off to go to GhengisCon or TactiCon I will have to spring this on a GM....... I really want to play a NCO that has given up on high moral reasons for war, and just wants to get by on comforts and guile.
Uncle Ted
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Originally posted by Draq View PostOK, this actually exists, but it an interesting gun. The TP-82 survival rifle for cosmonauts. Two shotgun barrels mounted over a 5.45x39mm rifled barrel, with a detachable stock that doubles as a machete.
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I post these under the best that never was: the initial tanks available (for the original nations) in the on line game World of Tanks. I know there are some players out there.
They fall under this topic because (except for the French FT-17), known of these faced actual combat.
The file includes...
- T7 Combat Car (US)
- T1 Light Tank (US)
- LT-31 (Germany)
- FT-17 (France)
- NC-27 (Japan)
- NC-31 (China)
- MS-1/T-18 (USSR)
- Vickers Medium Mk I (GB)
For each one, there is a T2K style vehicle sheet and a description of the vehicle, its development, and how reality differed from it depiction in WoT.
I did these as an exercise for the fun of it (compare these vs T2K light AFVs). Admittedly, they have little direct use in T2K...
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