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new type of tank for your game
i could see some of these being pulled out towards the end of the war or moved to places like Africa. the rules would be crazy for this. you would have to have a horror rating for when this thing or its like fires.
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Good find. How many would still be around and close to operational by the mid-1990s, though? The M67A1 "Zippo" was retired in 1974.
On a related note, Soviet Naval Infantry fielded the TO-55 flame tank until at least the mid-to-late 1980s. - |
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For the TO-55, the flamethrower replaced the coaxial machine gun, and was capable of 12 blasts of flame (limited by both fuel capacity and the number of pyrotechnic charges carried), each using ~36 liters of fuel and projecting up to 200 meters, with a maximum rate of fire of 8 shots per minute. The ammunition load for the main gun was reduced to 25 shells and the hull machine gun had 750 rounds. |
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there are at least two surviving M67's
One was on display at the US Army Ordnance Museum at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland before it was been relocated to Fort Benning, Georgia. Another can be found outside the Engineering School, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Not sure how many total were left and if any could have been made operational |
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The earlier M67s were converted from M48A1 and A2 hulls and given their own turrets. But the later M67A2s were converted from M48A3s, which already had the diesel engine. The turrets would hardly be used, they were internally different and lacked the range-finder optics a tank requires. I think any variant of M67 Zippo would be a good addition to a raiding force on the post-apocalyptic battlefields. But the M48 has one distinct problem: The older gasoline engines had terrible operational ranges of just 110-120 km, though fuel drums could extend that to almost double. Though, would you want an unarmored fuel drum sitting on your flamethrower? :rolleyes: The diesel versions had far better ranges (around 450 km for A3 models and close to 500 km for A5 models) and could use other fuel types as well. So, a early model Zippo might just stay a Zippo and do guard duty at an important site. On the other hand, later model Zippos might get rebuilt into main battle tanks again. All you need, basically, is a working turret and slap it on, preferably nothing too fancy, or you also need to do some re-wiring. |
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does it give you ideas? |
It does. It certainly does.
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