Re: [MV] Leopard turrets

From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 06:21:28 PDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Wiehe" <j.wiehe@sympatico.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Leopard turrets

> Hey Chance,
>
> Was there not some talk about trying to mount the turrets on the
>
> new LAV III ??
>
> Something old, something new, something borrowed, something green ??
>
> I'm probably mistaken on this though.

Hm. Didn't hear that one, but it wouldn't surprise me if they thought of it
at some concept stage when coming up with the Coyote. Kind of a huge turret
to saddle such a vehicle with though, plus it would tend to Scare the
Neighbours next time we had a Gustafson Lake incident to sort out.:)
Either way I think DDGM won out at the design stage and "did it my way" from
stem-to-stern on the beasties.

We like recycling here in the Canadian Forces. When we bought the Iveco
trucks way back when, they were designed to be used with various
purpose-built kits to become comms vehicles, cargo vehicles, ambs
etc.,etc. - yet our illustrious Gov't took the full-size pods off the backs
of the 1980's CUCV and 1976 Chevrolet "Five-Quad" trucks and dropped them on
the Iveco chassis rather than purchase the built-by-design shelters for the
beasts. I'll give them their due though, as they reskinned and refitted
most if not all of them before remounting them - but from what I understand
they were considerably heavier than the ones designed for the Iveco, and
nuisance frame cracks and other ills were the long-term result.



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