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Offline Jacques Deguerre

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #50 on: July 11, 2017, 04:52:16 AM »
I'm thinking it might cost about the same to buy and restore that one as it would be to buy the 1/35 Revell kit on eBay right now!  ;D

I wonder if that Staghound behind it is for sale? I wouldn't mind having that for weekend family drives!
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #51 on: July 11, 2017, 06:18:25 PM »
Can I have the Staghound in the background, please? ???
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #52 on: July 12, 2017, 05:51:32 AM »
Quote from: Old Wombat on July 11, 2017, 06:18:25 PM
Can I have the Staghound in the background, please? ???


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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #53 on: August 06, 2017, 09:30:30 AM »
Heavy Halftrack  >:D :icon_fsm:



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Offline kim margosein

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #54 on: August 08, 2017, 10:20:21 AM »
I guess the Israelis left the tank destroyer out on the street overnight in Chicago
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #55 on: December 16, 2017, 04:38:42 PM »
What if some cooperation after WWII: 2 reccon possibilities.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #56 on: December 17, 2017, 02:30:23 AM »
Interesting viewing:  https://youtu.be/7ho8TU_JpoI
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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #57 on: December 18, 2017, 07:35:52 PM »
Scaleorama: M18 1/56 + M1 1/72

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Offline Rickshaw

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #58 on: December 22, 2017, 12:11:34 PM »
Combining the hull of a M42 Duster AA tank with the turret of an M18, the Type 64 Light Tank:





Used by the ROC Army on Taiwan.
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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #59 on: January 14, 2018, 10:23:33 AM »
Interchanging turrets between M10 and M18

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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #60 on: January 16, 2018, 09:30:14 AM »
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on January 14, 2018, 05:28:00 PM
How about an M18 with an M4 Sherman turret?


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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #61 on: January 16, 2018, 09:31:51 AM »
Recce version of M18 with upgunned (50mm approx) M8 turret.

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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #62 on: January 25, 2018, 12:39:26 PM »
Love this taiwanese version of M10



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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #63 on: January 26, 2018, 04:00:18 AM »
Interesting.  What's it armed with?
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Offline Rickshaw

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #64 on: January 26, 2018, 08:52:08 AM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on January 26, 2018, 04:00:18 AM
Interesting.  What's it armed with?

Apparently (and rather unusually) a Japanese Type 91 105mm Howitzer..   Seems odd to put a Japanese gun on an American armoured vehicle but apparently it's what the ROC Army decided to do after it fled to Formosa.  More information available at Wart Hunder]War Thunder forum.  Zenrat posted this information over at What If after I asked exactly the same question.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #65 on: January 27, 2018, 07:49:47 AM »
Gun swap? Take the Type 91 out of the Tamiya Type 1 Ho-Ni (35331) for the ROC M10 SPH. Then plonk the 3-inch M1918 on to the Type 1 (perhaps pretending to be a Type 4 75 mm AA gun adapted for SP use?).
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Offline dy031101

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #66 on: February 16, 2018, 04:12:22 AM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on January 26, 2018, 04:00:18 AM
Interesting.  What's it armed with?

Likely 105mm Type 91 howitzer.  Those vehicles were demilitarized (i.e. having their guns sabotaged) prior to the acquisition; there were, OTOH, plenties of Japanese artillery pieces left behind as their former owners were sent packing.
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Offline dy031101

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #67 on: May 03, 2018, 11:01:17 AM »
Bismarck, one of the proposals for what would eventually become the Rooikat.

42 tons.  Originally equipped with an Olifant tank turret (which is essentially an up-armoured Centurion tank turret with a 105mm gun)...... looks like the TTD turret was tested on it as well.
« Last Edit: May 03, 2018, 11:06:55 AM by dy031101 »
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Offline Rickshaw

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #68 on: August 30, 2018, 01:48:20 PM »




















[Source]

Unsure if they are meant to be MBT's or tank destroyers.  Unsure as to the authorship.
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #69 on: April 28, 2019, 04:34:54 AM »
MOWAG Taifun:

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Offline ChalkLine

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #70 on: July 02, 2024, 07:28:31 PM »
Here's something I drew up for the Twilight 2000 game.

'Schwarzer Jaguar' Haubitzejagdpanzer HJPz 2A

West German Kanonenjagdpanzer modified into a Jaguar 2 Raketenjagdpanzer 4 and then rebuilt into an assault gun using an East German NVA 122mm howitzer when the missile stocks ran out. A better version would use the Belgian Kanonenjagdpanzer upgrades.

It should work, the weights are calculated out. The gun was supposed to be shifted over on the front view so it didn't occlude the hull MG but by that time I was over it.

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #71 on: July 03, 2024, 02:16:52 AM »
How about something more subtle?  A West German or Belgian Kanonenjagdpanzer but upgraded with the 105 mm Royal Ordnance L7 gun from the Leopard Is thus giving increased firepower and commonality of ammunition.  Would be one to trick the experts.
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Offline ChalkLine

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #72 on: July 03, 2024, 03:16:17 AM »
That was actually mooted, I think they didn't bother because everyone was going to Leo II in reality.

T2K is essentially an infantry setting so infantry support vehicles are sought after. Nothing like having your own direct-fire howitzer to stiffen ones' resolve :)
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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #73 on: July 04, 2024, 12:39:53 AM »
I'm thinking of an upgrade around 1970, in parallel to the Bundeswehr's real world Leo A1 upgrade program.  This would be a decade before the Leo 2s came onto the scene.  The upgrade could also improve things such as night vision.
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Offline ChalkLine

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Re: I like Tank Destroyers
« Reply #74 on: July 04, 2024, 02:49:56 AM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on July 04, 2024, 12:39:53 AM
I'm thinking of an upgrade around 1970, in parallel to the Bundeswehr's real world Leo A1 upgrade program.  This would be a decade before the Leo 2s came onto the scene.  The upgrade could also improve things such as night vision.

Yeah, I take it that's the Belgian Jagdpanzerkanone JPK with the tracks, transmission & final drive from the Marder along with low light intensification, a laser rangefinder and SABCA fire control. However because they were coming out as T-64 and T-72 were being deployed the L7 didn't have the oomph to penetrate them frontally (although neither did the Rh-120 as it turned out) so they went to missiles instead.

The L7 Low Recoil gun would fit but talking to a JPK driver he said there'd be issues fitting in the ammunition. However I think he was being a stickler for mounting it on the firewall facing the breech.
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