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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Armored Gun System
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Date: 22 Mar 91 04:24:39 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

drn@pinet.aip.org (donald_newcomb) writes:
| Recent employment of the obsolescent M551A1 Sheridan in Operations
| Just Cause and Desert Shield/Storm has emphasised the Army's
| neglect of light, air-deployable weapon systems. In response, the 
| long simmering Armored Gun System (AGS) project has been moved to
| the front burner (1).

  [Thanks for the update: I've been interested in the outcome of the
aries gun and high-mobility tracked vehicle experiments, but have seen little
discussion on it.]

  This posting reminded me of a photograph of a vehicle (or fragment?)  that
appeared in the March 18th Newsweek: on page 28-29, a soldier is illustrated
standing on a turretless, apparently flat-decked armoured vehicle.  It
doesn't look like a BTR-50, and it doesn't look at all like a BMP unless
someone's stolen the turret!
  Are we looking at a new light armoured vehicle or a remnant?

--dave (:-)) c-b
   
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