Really bad weapons...

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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

LOL What you most likely have at Chiliwack is a driving instruction conversion, turret removed, modest superstructure to replace, the seat on the right (the new TC) has duplicate driver controls. Several dozen of them have been sold to the West in recent years. Nothing like packing a few paying tourists into a tank and running around them around the track!

Lee,

The turret is removed and some superstructure added for the training version? This tank had a turret and I rode in it, although I can't say if superstructure was added.



-The tank, although not me in the turret.

http://www.cmedcentre.ca/#

The owner said he had a choice between a T-54 and an M48A3 Patton and decided on the former due to cost concerns and parts availability. Also, the steel tracks were replaced by rubber-shod Centurion. He was specific (and proud) of his baby and spent time talking about engine rebuilds and the boxes on the turret sides and pretty much everything, it's difficult to see it was originally a training tank not coming up.

A little off-topic, here are some pictures of Cuban variants on the BTR-60, including the middle one with a modified T-54 turret. Bottom left has a BTR-1 turret. All could make an appearance in the Twilight war!





http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...-Fortress-Cuba

Tony