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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2014, 10:45:08 PM »
During the Yugoslav civil war, some Serbian militia had their mechanics training T-55 hulls combined with surplus M18 Hellcat turrets.



What was the reason?  I assume it was to increase numbers of vehicles using the hulls which presumably didn't have turrets?

Presumably, seeing how this is one of the last places where WWII-era vehicles were used in combat.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2014, 02:22:44 AM »
Personally I prefer turreted TDs......

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2014, 01:43:28 PM »
Then you must love the IKV-91 Tank Destroyer from Sweden -

Interesting that at approximately the same time as the Swedes were designing that, they were putting the "S-Tank" with a fixed casement gun into service and the Germans were putting the Jagdpanzer Konone into service which was a tank destroyer with a fixed casement gun.


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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2014, 06:55:31 PM »
In similar vein, it's worth pointing out that the Austrian SK-105 vehicle is rated as a tank destroyer by the Austrian Army and the manufacturers, although in functional terms, it's essentially a rear-engined AMX-13.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2014, 11:15:03 PM »
Interesting that at approximately the same time as the Swedes were designing that, they were putting the "S-Tank" with a fixed casement gun into service and the Germans were putting the Jagdpanzer Konone into service which was a tank destroyer with a fixed casement gun.

Yeah but Ikv-91 wasn't replaced by the S-tank but instead replaced alongside the S-tank by the Leopard 2.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #30 on: May 26, 2014, 10:19:29 AM »
revisiting this thread has been great.

I have previously done an Late WW2/'46 German AT Guided Missile vehicle. Based on a Panzerjager IV chassis and using the X-7 Rotkappchen Missile


Further use of older chassis with new weapons.
Putting this sort of weapon on the 38T chassis has plenty of merit as well

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #31 on: May 26, 2014, 12:23:24 PM »
 :)

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #32 on: May 26, 2014, 06:04:10 PM »
revisiting this thread has been great.

I have previously done an Late WW2/'46 German AT Guided Missile vehicle. Based on a Panzerjager IV chassis and using the X-7 Rotkappchen Missile

Further use of older chassis with new weapons.
Putting this sort of weapon on the 38T chassis has plenty of merit as well


Niiiice... :)

You could write a really credible whiff history with that, drawing a direct development line to the real-life Jagdpanzer Rakete.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #33 on: July 04, 2014, 09:19:04 PM »
In keeping with the theme of up-gunning and evolving WWII-era tanks that I've been playing with...... can Cockerill's short 90mm gun be fitted in place of that 75mm howitzer on the M8 HMC?

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2014, 10:21:16 PM »
Wasn't there an up gunned Brazilian M-5 with a 90mm?

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #35 on: July 04, 2014, 10:47:13 PM »
Wasn't there an up gunned Brazilian M-5 with a 90mm?

Brazilian Stuart got a new turret as part of the deal though; I want to see if I can keep the M8's stock turret.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2015, 11:11:49 AM »
What about something with a couple (or more) Recoilless rifles onboard - kind of like a heavier British equivalent to the M50 Ontos or Type 60?  Maybe give it a set of 120mm L6 WOMBAT recoilless riffles?

This could be an alternate to the FV4401 Contentious (see below) under Project Prodigal.


It'd be hard to avoid taking inspirations from Project Prodigal though:




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The attachment is a proposed tank destroyer version of M3 Stuart...... I wonder if this set up would work well with a recoilless rifle......
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2015, 10:08:13 PM »
Is just dawned on me that the Hetzer was small and light enough to be lifted by a C-130.  So following the premise that towed AT guns within infantry battalions were be replaced with a Hetzer or E-10 type vehicle (or even actual modified Hetzers or E-10s) in the early post war period they would have proven their worth in Korea receiving a life extension, eventually being retained only by the airborne battalions as the RAR and RAM adopted newer, heavier vehicles.

These tank destroyers would not be TDs in the US style but a pure replacement for an infantry battalion's towed guns, leaving tanks to be concentrated and used to greatest effect.  Doctrinally think more an alternative to vehicle mounted BAT, 106mm recoilless rifles, etc. and later ATGMs that replaced towed guns than a traditional TD.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #38 on: January 26, 2015, 03:04:49 AM »
These tank destroyers would not be TDs in the US style but a pure replacement for an infantry battalion's towed guns, leaving tanks to be concentrated and used to greatest effect.  Doctrinally think more an alternative to vehicle mounted BAT, 106mm recoilless rifles, etc. and later ATGMs that replaced towed guns than a traditional TD.

So, probably more akin to the original idea of the Sturmgeschütz: i.e. a mobile, armoured light gun for direct-fire support for infantry with some anti-tank capability when necessary, though not as its primary role.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #39 on: January 26, 2015, 04:54:23 AM »
Yes and no.  AT would be it's primary role but direct fire support would be a very close second with a second vehicle type replacing the towed / pack infantry support guns / howitzers.  The idea is to replace, not just the towed AT gun / recoilless rifle but also its tractor as well as the traditional infantry support guns / howitzers, with something far more mobile and survivable. 

There would be an AT platoon with three or four sections, one for each infantry company, each with two vehicles also the infantry would retain their Bazookas, PIATs, etc. this would replace the towed guns only.  The same would apply to, not only, the STUG, but also heavy mortars, AA, reconnaissance, pioneers and potentially APCs.  Sort of an organic Armoured Support Company (ASC?)😊 that can split into sections to support individual companies or concentrated at battalion level as a reserve.  Basically it would turn each light infantry battalion into a combined arms battle group while not detracting from their core infantry skillset. 

What I am doing is implementing a version of plan Beersheba 60 years earlier at battalion rather than brigade level.  On the flip side there will also be infantrymen / riflemen / assault troopers  imbedded organically in all armoured / cavalry units down to troop level, with similar AT, STUG, mortar, pioneer, etc elements at regimental level.

Post WWII three infantry battalions where renamed go become the first three battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment, effectively an infantry brigade, the core of Australia's first standing army.  At this time it was also intended to form a regular armoured brigade, supported by two similar reserve or CMF brigades.  The armoured brigade never happened and the infantry brigade eventually became an infantry division with other elements, including armour in support, but an infantry brigade with organic supporting armour and an armoured brigade with organic supporting infantry, each backed up by a pair of reserve brigades of similar establishment would have been quite achievable and affordable.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #40 on: August 31, 2015, 07:52:49 PM »
I am certain I posted something somewhere about the LT vz 38 being trialled the RAC prior to WWII but I can not find it now.  Just bought the New Vanguard book on the 38(t) and, once I got over the expected spell checker mis-wordings, I was interested to note that the British trials coincided with Germaine annexation of Czechoslovakia and had been courtesy of one of the prototypes being provided. 

The thing that stood out from the book though was the evolution from licence manufacture of Darden Lloyd Tankettes through to their own light tank design for export, that the LT vs 38 was evolved from, were available much earlier and could have been trialled and even adopted by the British.  The TNH could have been selected as the basis for a colonial medium tank for service in the Middle East, India and the Far East, possibly even for the Antipodes.  A protracted Anglicisation would have been required, perhaps even a re-engining  2pdr instead of 37mm, but the thing is if this had started prior to the annexation, tooling, jigs and fixtures could have been in place before hand, like they were for the BREN and BESA.

End result the British have a reliable light / medium tank in the early years of the war that would probably look different to the Czech / German models, but more importantly a platform suitable for tank destroyers.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2016, 07:58:52 AM »
Hey guys, how about this as TD?  When I first saw the photo I missed the fact that it had a turret as it blended in so well.  Food for thought maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBT-70

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2016, 09:50:44 AM »
Not quite a tank destroyer but the Versuchsträger 1-1 twin-gunned turretless tank prototype was based on a shortened MBT-70 hull.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2016, 10:26:17 AM »
Not quite a tank destroyer but the Versuchsträger 1-1 twin-gunned turretless tank prototype was based on a shortened MBT-70 hull.


This one?

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #44 on: January 18, 2016, 09:03:42 AM »
I think that's the VT 1-2 ... but I'm not sure how the VT 1-1 differed. Maybe more like the GVT 01-'05 demonstrators?  ???
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #45 on: January 18, 2016, 09:37:16 AM »
Hey guys, how about this as TD?  When I first saw the photo I missed the fact that it had a turret as it blended in so well.  Food for thought maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBT-70



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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #46 on: January 19, 2016, 02:39:30 AM »
I believe the main difference between the VT1-1 and VT1-2 was that the former had 105mm guns whilst the latter had 120mm guns.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #47 on: January 19, 2016, 08:22:01 PM »
Bought New Vanguards book on the British Carden Lloyd based light tanks I through VI and there was a version of the VI with an open topped turret armed with a 2pdr gun that the book referred to as a tank destroyer and lamented the fact it was not ordered into production.  The single example was apparently extensively field tested by the 9th Royal lancers during 1935 though no information was provided on its performance during the trials they speculated that it looked quite well balanced and speculated that such a vehicle would have been quite useful (or at least more useful than the HMG armed versions).

This reminded me of the full traverse 2pdr AT versions of the Universal Carrier (the base chassis of which is not much smaller than the light tanks) and got me thinking that a casemate tank destroyer armed with a 6pdr should have actually been possible.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #48 on: July 11, 2017, 01:39:03 AM »
Some guy is selling these at a private auction in California, but when I first saw the pic, it reminded me of some Israeli armour boneyard.

So.... Israeli KaJaPa (Kanonenjagdpanzer), anyone? Or a Raketenjagdpanzer/Jaguar (maybe with indigenous missiles)?


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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #49 on: July 11, 2017, 03:00:05 AM »
So.... Israeli KaJaPa (Kanonenjagdpanzer), anyone?

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