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Stridswagn 103 S-Tank without main gun
Old Wombat:
The Strv 103 is a very small tank.
The third crewman is, really, squeezed in as an after-thought (he actually sits at almost 90o to the direction of travel to drive the thing & has to reach over his shoulder to access the radios) to provide an extra body to assist with maintenance tasks. His nominal roles of radio operator/reverse driver are not really required; the TC can operate the radios from his position using an existing switching system & the (front) driver can reverse the tank using cameras.
Removal of the third crewman, the gun barrel & breech, the auto-loader & the stored ammunition don't, actually, increase the available volume, or even floor space, by all that much.
You'd be hard-pressed to get a four-man squad in there without Jeff's recce equipment, even with a raised box-section roof aft of the TC & driver.
To me, Jeff's dedicated recce vehicle makes the most sense, given what can be done without a complete re-design of the hull.
GTX_Admin:
--- Quote from: Old Wombat on April 13, 2024, 06:43:54 PM ---The Strv 103 is a very small tank.
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Indeed - see below to give some idea:
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