No, I am not talking about the Jagdpanther of WWII.
Tony Francis schrieb:
> It's a light APC with a very small (remote ?) turret.
Which reminds me:
I came across some old press notes:
In the 1980's the Bundeswehr tended for proposals for a new
tank-killer vehicle ("Jagdpanzer Panther") using anti-tank missiles.
Apparently the idea was to mount a hydraulic platform on an armoured hull
(Marder or PZH 2000). The hydraulic platform would carry a pack of missiles
(HOT or similar) and could be elevated as high as 12 m to shoot over trees,
low hills, or buildings.
Apparently Krauss-Maffei built two prototypes that were tested by the
Bundeswehr.
The project was canceled in 1993.
Anyone ( Oerjan ? ) know more ? Any pictures/drawings ?
Something similar might make a nice project for a DS2 or SG vehicle
conversion - I think one of the Battletech vehicles featured such an
elevating turret.
Greetings
> KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
I have seen pictures of this before, but don't ask me where! A quick scan
through the office copy of Jane's doesn't mention it, and I haven't
found anything in a five-minute trawl of the web.
> Something similar might make a nice project for a DS2 or SG vehicle
IIRC it looked very similar to the Radarpanzer version of the Marder -
but with missiles instead of the radar at the end of the hydraulic arm. It
would be a fairly simple modelling job, especially at DS2 scale. Hmmm, I feel
a variant to one of the Brigade APCs coming on...
> Karl Heinz wrote:
> In the 1980's the Bundeswehr tended for proposals for a new
The Danes use a similar vehicle, though they use an M113 hull instead.
(No,
this is *not* the M901 ITV - the Danish vehicle can elevate the missile
"tower" far higher than the M901 can.)
> Apparently Krauss-Maffei built two prototypes that were tested by the
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:14:46 +0200 Oerjan Ohlson
> <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> writes:
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> The Danes use a similar vehicle, though they use an M113 hull instead.
This sounds a lot like some of the Reviresco 1/300th designs (although I
have never seen them except in pictures and (Hearsay alert) have heard they
are pretty big for that scale) with several cherry picker and
extendible turrets/launchers.
Maybe Monday I can go John McEwan's web site and check them out...
Gracias,