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Scorpion Family

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zenrat

Quote from: Weaver on January 08, 2025, 07:22:50 PMScorpion hull fitted with a French SAMM S530 twin 20mm AAA turret. This was only a prototype, but the turret did see limited production: Venezuela bought a dozen mounted on Panhard AML 4x4 armoured car chassis in 1973...

Perfect for crowd control...
Fred

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Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

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Weaver

Quote from: zenrat on January 09, 2025, 02:53:32 AM
Quote from: Weaver on January 08, 2025, 07:22:50 PMScorpion hull fitted with a French SAMM S530 twin 20mm AAA turret. This was only a prototype, but the turret did see limited production: Venezuela bought a dozen mounted on Panhard AML 4x4 armoured car chassis in 1973...

Perfect for crowd control...

Yeah, well not much good for anti-aircraft: no search radar, daylight optical fire-control and the guns are GIAT M621s firing US pattern 20x102mm, so it'd have all the range issues of the Vulcan-armed M163 with half the fire rate and ammo supply. There's a pattern of third-world countries buying borderline-effective SPAAGs from the French: Gabon has a handful of 6x6 ERCs with a similar twin 20mm turret.

If you want a properly effective twin 20mm SPAAG from the French, you buy the VDA, which is based on the M3 4x4 APC chassis, and which has a radar and more powerful HS820 guns. Egypt bought a batch of these to put on M113s, and then subsequently re-armed them with Soviet Zu-23 23mm guns and 6 x SA-7 SAMs.
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