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The LAV-75 or Rapid Deployment Force Light Tank is one of my favorite never-was vehicles.
Like so many things in Twilight: 2000 we know a bit more about it now than we did from articles in Popular Mechanics or The Army Green Book.
All sorts of ammo types were predicted by T2K.
Just two were ever worked on.
A modification of a Mecar proximity fused HE round, M884, and an armor-piercing-fin-stabilized-discarding-sabot-depleted-uranium, M885.
The M885 went through several developments with increasing penetration and increasing prices.
No white phosphorus.
No high-explosive-anti-tank.
But I finally have GURPS 4e stats for it.
What got this ball rolling was to look up the armor on a Leopard 1A3, then making stats for it...
I spent more time looking up the ammo that Canada would use in their C1 tank than looking up the armor thicknesses.
Interestingly, there's 105mm ammo for the L7 series gun that's almost as good as depleted uranium rounds at penetrating using just tungsten. No pyrophoric effect, but...
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