The Best That Never Was 2 (Prototypes)

[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...

[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by Draq

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.]

[Draq]

I'm glad to see my threads actually matter enough for people to reply. Thanx guys.

[Draq]

In context of the later stages of the war, would it be more complicated to build casemated turrets or traditional ones?

[copeab]

Originally Posted by Draq

In context of the later stages of the war, would it be more complicated to build casemated turrets or traditional ones?

Historically, assault guns/tank destroyers with casemate mounts are cheaper to build than tanks built on the same hull, but are more limited tactic a lly.

[Brit]

Originally Posted by Draq

In context of the later stages of the war, would it be more complicated to build casemated turrets or traditional ones?

These are all I believe 'what if?' vehicles but the sort of thing that I think could have been produced:

"Hypothetical T-55 based tank destroyer":
http://ambushalleygames.com/forum/vi...hp?f=7&t=12105

"KaJaPa Zehn-Fünf":
"Well, it IS a Jagdpanzer Kanone, with a proposed/theoretical upgrade from 90mm to 105mm".
http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=21355.0

The Goliath tank "as pictured in Kenneth Macksey's Tank Versus Tank book":
http://www.network54.com/Forum/16923...die....Chimera
http://www.network54.com/Forum/16923.../Goliath+Image

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.

[ArmySGT.]

[ArmySGT.]

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

I did the AGDS on my Best SPAA that never Were Page.

[unkated]

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 Guthrie

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by unkated

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 Guthrie

Thanks....... 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.

[unkated]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Thanks....... 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.

Ah. Take a T3 that has been converted to a camper (very popular in Europe), paint it Army Green or camo and list it as non-tactical/Admin borrowed from the Air Force, preferably from a destroyed airbase.



Uncle Ted

[cawest]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

The Chieftain just did a Youtube on this tank.

[cawest]

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/t-54m...UWAfrEU-HhVkVY

[shrike6]

Air Defense Vulcan Bomber
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/re...eant-be-193904

[pmulcahy11b]

You know, I have figured out that, in the 17 years (by averages) of life that I have left, I will never finish my web site.