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From: davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Armored Gun System
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.061737.5159@amd.com>
Date: 23 Mar 91 06:17:37 GMT
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From: davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis)

In article <1991Mar22.042439.20892@cbnews.att.com> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>  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?

A remnant, if what you're describing is what I think it is.  I haven't
seen the actual picture you describe, but it sounds an awful lot like
an MT-LB.  The Soviets use these instead of BMP's in Category C divisions,
and the MT-LB chassis is the basis for the ZSU-23-4, the ACRV, the SA-13,
and several other vehicles.  Apparently, some found their way into Iraqi
service, since I've seen pictures of them burning (and winced when the
TV commentator identified them as "tanks").

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