Posted by Jon_a_its
on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:37 AM
 HeavyArty wrote: | | How much more wrong can you get??? It is a British 105mm Abbot SP gun.... Wrongly marked as a US gun, mis-identified as an M108, with the wrong weapons up top, and the apparent owner is dressed as a Marine. WTF???? |
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. Yup! more B^££$h!t Brigade! . It's a British FV433 Abbot, aka "Gun Equipment 105mm L109 (Abbot)" . Early marks were fielded with the L13 Gun, (The L118/L119 Barrels were interchangable on the TOWED gun, so that the stocks of 105mm M1 Howitzer ammo could be used, btw) . The Value Engineered version was used at BATUS, Alberta, Canada. . My Pa was a Gun Commander on this & I once got a ride in one! with a Rolls Royce V6 engine, alledgedly based on the Tigers' Maybach, the lovely noise could be heard for miles! . The pics... the following are "Just WRONG" The .50 & m60... soo not right! This is a Self-propelled Atty piece, the armour is only good for sub-.50 calibre rounds! Ammo racks on side of turret not right Spotlight! not! Pic 4, the .303 BREN is nearly right... A 7.62mm Version of the Bren was used for erm... 'light air defence', visually, it had a much less curved magazine . Pic 5 Doesn't look like it has the NBC (ABC) pack on the turret rear, (= VE version) so is highly likely that it was disposed of in Canada... . 1/35 Kits, Accurate Arnour have re-released this recently, (UKP£75!) Nichimo had a '60's kit, & I built an N scale 1/160 kit of this for my dad!
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