Apr 092009
On display at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum in Maryland was this unlabelled smallish tank. Any ideas?
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On display at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum in Maryland was this unlabelled smallish tank. Any ideas?
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US T92 Experimental Light Tank
One of my favorite non-produced military vehicles.
Hawk used to make a model of one of these.
That would have made a far better design choice for a light tank than what we finally ended up with, the POS Sheridan.
T92 it is. Thanks!
And the thing looks so cool, too! With it’s murdered out treads and related drive wheels, the rear-half mounted turret, the low and wide stance… it looks mean!
… just got to get rid of that barrel stabilizer.
The Barrel Stabilizer is a travel lock, used when the tank is on transports such as trains or heavy equipment transporters. Sometimes, in the past, used during long road marches (when contact is very very unlikely). It helps reduce stress on the hydraulics, prevents the gun from swining around into school buses and the like, and helps preserve the zero.
Not as critical now, but still used.
Mike
LTC (R), AR
If anyone wants to know more about it, there’s a fair amount of info on it in R.P. Hunnicutt’s book “Sheridan – A History of the American Light Tank – Volume 2”, which also has some of the strangest designs you have ever seen for light tanks. One really interesting one was designed for the Rapid Deployment Force and had a two-man crew…while being armed with a fully automatic 75 mm super high velocity cannon that could be used against ground or air targets as well as eight Stinger missiles.