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Title: Guns designed to be used to update old AFVs
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 15, 2021, 08:43:16 PM
What if french had installed the 105mm gun of M51 in some oldies more?

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Title: Re: Guns designed to be used to update old AFVs
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 15, 2021, 09:16:02 PM
http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product3609.html (http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product3609.html)

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This is RW. Chilean M50.
Title: Re: Guns designed to be used to update old AFVs
Post by: Weaver on July 16, 2021, 01:47:37 AM
Nice. :thumbsup:

There've been various 105mm conversions proposed for the M-47, but only one went into service:

France: AMX-30 gun (trials only)
Iran and Italy: L7 gun (trials only)
Spain: Rheinmetal gun (production)

Also, when South Korea upgraded their M-48s to 105mm, they cascaded their better (longer?) 90mm guns down to their M-47s.
Title: Re: Guns designed to be used to update old AFVs
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 19, 2021, 11:52:51 AM
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/m24-chaffee-with-60-hvms/

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Title: Re: Guns designed to be used to update old AFVs
Post by: Weaver on July 19, 2021, 12:08:24 PM
The Cockerill 90mm has been used to update old AFVs. Chaffees certainly, M41s maybe, proposed for the PT-76, the Scorpion of course, and several Brazillian light tanks derived, to varying degrees, from the M5 Stuart. It's a shoe-in for an 75/76mm, so it should easily go on a big-turret Sherman, and probably a Comet too. I'd be amazed if you can't get the French 90mm F2 (AML-90) gun into the Saladin, and the Cockerill might go too.