18 November 2021

CM-11

I really don't keep up with military technology like I used to when Twlight: 2000 was speculative fiction rather than alternate history.

But, occasionally, when I'm double checking something for my GURPS conversion I find something interesting.

Taiwan has an M60A3 tank hull sporting an M48A3 turret with an M1 Abrams fire-control in it.

This made a record scritching noise when I read it.

Why not put the M1 fire-control in the M60A3 turret that came with the hull?

Nobody is answering this question in their write-ups about the thing.

It's probably a simple explanation too.

Posted by Angus McThag at 15:36
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  1. Mike-SMO18 November, 2021 19:48

    I'd guess configuration of the internal space. Since they most certainly added additional external armor, it hardly matters what the core support was as long as there was space for the "new stuff".

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