![]() ![]() ![]() The preceding concepts that came to our organization were all on the opposite side of the spectrum (if you want to laugh and cry about the U.S. The plus side is that the Army actually realized its dire need for a “light” tank instead of fiddling around like it did with the M-8, or trying to stick with the disastrously stupid Stryker MGS, or continuing to delude itself that the Abrams meets every conceivable armor need. That’s about where my involvement ended and shortly after I changed jobs. We all wondered if the Army would save itself some trouble and just revisit something that was well established. Many of the people I worked with were retired officers or colonels who remembered the M-8 program pretty well. I worked as an analyst for the Army when the “Mobile Protected Firepower” concept was first floating around and I touched the periphery of the early concept development. Army is fortunate that they were ever able to agree on a vehicle at all. With GDLS getting the contract I’d expect it to be built in Lima Ohio or maybe Warren Michigan. They actually considered regunning Sheridans at one time with that 90mm gun. I wonder if the main gun is a take off from the low recoil 90mm gun that Rhinemetal developed. Looking at the rear of the tank, it looks like there is enough room in there. Plus it’s already tooled up! (saves huge cost concerns). I wonder if this is the one? The old AAAV power pack was a hybrid drive system, but also pretty large (cu. Rumors have been flowing in the old work place that there is a hybrid electric drive in the design works. Yet it would destroy another tank effortlessly.įast forward to modern stuff and modern hydraulics and the above system is quite doable. The rocket never saw a minute in combat, and was never right from the get go. The gun launcher on paper seemed like a fantastic idea, but needed a complete redesign even before production started. got his fingers in the pie to further screw the pooch. The ideas were nice, but the technology just was not there at the time. ![]() The Sheridan concept was about twenty five years too early. When I first looked at the picture I was thinking another BAE pile of junk. ![]()
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