From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 13:11:33 PDT
I love those S-Tanks. They're so cool looking.
Some pics.
www.aellig-michel.ch/.../ Donnerstag%20112.htm (Bottome 3 pictures)
www.wendel.se/ rswa/obsolete.htm (Top picture)
Darrell
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From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] new Merkava
>At 1:08 AM -0400 10/21/04, Steve Grammont wrote:
>The only other "main" battle tank with an autoloader I can think of is
>the Swedish S-Tank. From memory I recall it wasn't a feature to be proud
>of, but I could be wrong on that. Having sat in one I must say that it
>is the Saab sports coup of tanks (more correctly TD)!
The S tank had an autoloader but that
configuration was pretty well setup in that the
gun didn't elevate or traverse. So no special
tricks had to be employed to align the gun with
the autoloader for a loading cycle. Not really an
MBT either. More of a tank destroyer.
Now, the French LeClerc has an autoloader iirc.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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