I do need to pick up one of theswe kits. They're just not seeen it this area.
I remember seeing the tractors for the atomic cannos on the highway every so ofter when I was in high school. Naturally I didn't know what they were up to back then but with Picatinny Arsenal on the other side of town, you could come up with all sorts of ideas.
The night I graduated high school we were getting ready in the music room and a girl I knew showed me a photo of her boy friend who was in Viet Nam. It was a fairly typical shot with a couple G.I.s in the fore ground with their flak vests opened and helmets offbut the background was the interestings part. Two Sheridan tanks were at the edge of the picture in a large clearing and between them was a atomic cannon set up on its pedistal with the tractors off to the side. I was a bit surprised by this because this was the first time I had seen a photo of a real one anywhere except for the publicity desert shots that had been released.
Someone told me that it must have been a French rail road gun left over but there were no tracks anywhere in the clearing and if was definately one of ours. It couild have been sent over with conventional ammo as a test program, but who knows. I never heard anything else about it.
Liked the shots from over there, especially the V-100s and M-113s.