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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I just checked my site; I can't believe I didn't do that one!
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I also checked your site earlier today to see if you'd done it. There's some very basic information
here on various missile tanks, and I might pull together more information, since some of these are beautifully weird vehicles.
Object 757 was an IS-3 with a 125mm launcher for 9K112/AT-8 "Songster" missiles.
Object 775 was a new hull with the same launcher.
Object 282 was built on a T-10 chassis with a pop-up launcher firing either 152mm anti-tank rockets (22 carried) or 132mm anti-tank rockets (30 carried).
Object 287 is a weird little thing with a pair of the 73mm gun-launchers from the BMP-1 (and a pair of coaxial PKT machine guns) and a pop-up launcher with 15 of the 9M15 Taifun radio-guided anti-tank missile.
And, of course, the IT-1 that saw service with two tank destroyer battalions.
By the way, on the "Best Tanks That Never Were," I think the ammo loadouts for the M1A4 and M60 Modernization Package have been reversed - the M1A4 is carrying 105mm rounds despite being armed with a 140mm gun, and the M60 has 140mm and 30mm rounds. Also, the M60-2000 has 120mm ammo despite having a 105mm M68.