Flash, #52 - British naturally?  Cause it never went into production?

 

T-Dog

Conway was an attempt to up-gun the Centurion with a 120mm gun mounted in a high turret. Other attempts to up-gun the Centurion to 183mm were tried, firstly using a limited traverse mounting (no turret) and secondly using a lightly armoured fully traversable turret. This latter turret still survives in the grounds at the Bovington Tank Museum. I understand that Conway is currently in store at Bovington, although a model of Conway is on display.

 

There you go PBA. Need to get up to speed on the 183 mm gun

WE DON'T NEED A BIGGER GUN FLASH BUT MORE GUNS.

BESIDES, WE CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM HERE.

I was looking at the Israelis lining their Merkavas up. This is a Mk 4 now. Apparantly they've been holding back because of boggy conditions. 120mm gun plus 60mm mortar plus 1500 hp BUT 65 Tons.

The Military Channel just had a piece about the 10 best tanks ever.  The two History Channels had rated tanks previously & in one survey the T-34 won & the other the Abrams.  The latest had the Leopard as the best ever.

 

T-Dog

YES TOMMY THEY USUALLY RATE THEM ON A NUMBER OF THINKS LIKE FIREPOWER MOBILITY ARMOURMENT TIME IN SERVICE ETC.

I WOULD SAY TO BE PEDANTIC THE T34/85. the Mk IVcould outgun the T34/76s.

 

BUT they won on Diesel fuel

The Israelis are very fond of their Cummings engined Diesel Cents though.

 

In 2002 They announced they would scrap Merkava after 2006 but have changed their minds.

The Centurian finished in the top 5 along with the Merkava.   The Sherman was #10.

 

T-Dog

When evaluating the T-72 the commentator said it was like everything else the Russians built, a death trap.  Apparently he did not like the auto-loader.

 

T-Dog

HERE'S YOUR T-72 TOMMY. THE BOTTOM PIC IS OF A T-55 WHICH I ALWAYS THOUGHT LOOKED NEAT. PIC'S TAKEN IN CAMP BORDEN ONT.(JUST WEST OF BARRIE ON THE 400 HWY)

 

 

Auto loader auto loaded the gunner's arm.

I reckon where the US won was was multi purpose hull.

look at this!

 You might be sitting in a T62 but when a burst from this comes a-knocking on your hull, at 3,000 rpm, it becomes untenable.

 

Or this

 40 MM DUSTER

1956-88. The Israelis proved they lost more aircarft during Yom Kippur to ZSU 23-4s and ZSU 57-2s

 

And

 

than they ever did to missiles.

Dunno Flash, when the Egyptians moved their armor forward & from out of the umbrella of SAMS they were wiped out by the Israeli air force.

 

T-Dog

I won't deny that, but the ZSUs (radar aimed you see) gave the Israelis a lot of headaches.

Hence the adoption of Gepard in 1974

 

(Bloody great water cooled 35mm cannon)