M113 with 25mm turret.

Looks pretty good, but a total fantasy.  The bottom picture you have is an Australian M113A2 FSV.  It has a Saladin turret (I think, there were 2 versions with different turrets), not a Bradley turret.  There is a version made in Egypt on an M113A4 chassis with a Bradley turret known as the EIFV (Egyptian Infantry Fighting Vehicle).

HeavyArty wrote:

The bottom picture you have is an Australian M113A2 FSV.  It has a Saladin turret (I think, there were 2 versions with different turrets), not a Bradley turret.

Unless he's changed the picture since you wrote that, it looks a lot like an early Bradley turret to me, on an earlier M113. (Not as many roadwheels as an A4). The FSV and subsequent MRV used Saladin and Scorpion turrets, both with 76mm guns.

I have to say, I was unaware of the EIFV, mind.

NTM

HeavyArty wrote:

Looks pretty good, but a total fantasy.  The bottom picture you have is an Australian M113A2 FSV.  It has a Saladin turret (I think, there were 2 versions with different turrets), not a Bradley turret.

Actually, the photo he based his model on was of a FMC test vehicle from the 80's showing one of the various turrets/weapons stations that could be fitted to the M113 series.   I'll check at home for some of the FMC sales brouchures that I have that should show it.  It maybe in some of my older Jane's books as well.

HeavyArty wrote:

I believe the FMC test vehicle had the sloped rear plates like the K200 and NATO AIFV.  The above pic doesn't look right to be a Bradley turret to me.  Maybe the angle or something is deceiving.

 According to Jane's AFV Retrofit Systems 1992/93 the turret in the picture is the FMC 25mm Autocannon Turret.  It is adapted from the Bradley turret and differs only by not having the TOW launcher and by using a different sighting system than the Bradley turret.    Testing on the M113 series was completed in 1983.