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Originally Posted by Vespers War

I had missed that because I was looking under tanks instead of light combat vehicles.

A couple notes on the X1A2:

1. It's not a rebuilt Stuart, it's an entirely new vehicle based on the Stuart (likely because Brazil already had some tooling that could be used from the Stuart upgrades).
2. The removed crew member was the assistant driver/machinegunner, not the loader. It did not have an autoloader, and the commander was the loader.
3. The gun's actually an EC-90 (the same as on the EE-9 Cascavel), which is a license-built Cockerill, but was unable to fire APFSDS because of the muzzle brake.
4. The unit price was approximately $400,000 in 1980. That (relatively) high price was why Paraguay bought the EE-9 instead, because it cost $243,600 in the late 1980s.

For the X1, despite being the "not produced in numbers" variant, it's actually the most common, since there were 52 X1, either 1 or 2 X1A1, and 24 X1A2.

Edit: and the first two versions should have a pair of .30 cal MGs instead of the single MAG, since there was one coaxial and one in the hull front for the assistant driver to use.

Thanks for getting me looking at that page again. I'm working on an update now. I don't completely agree with you on some points, but I have some new and updated information to work with. I haven't looked at my page on the X1 in years -- it's nice to take another look.