With the never ending need to do the job in hand quicker and more efficiently, The Marine corps wanted a wheeled vehicle that could travel fast on and off road that could be used to defend convoys and also to kill tanks. The base vehicle is the M1126 Stryker. A prototype vehicle was put together using existing equipment, and this consisted of a M 551 Sheridan tank, fitted with 120 mm smooth bore gun from the M-1 Abrams. This configuration worked, and worked admirably from the start. Using surplus M551 turrets, until a built for purpose unmanned turret can be designed, the vehicle designated LAV-211 in U.S marine guise found itself posted overseas, almost straight away, to fight with the Marine expedition force in Honduras.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4333/36588390230_84d67a15b1_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XKc4Gj)stryker tank killer (https://flic.kr/p/XKc4Gj) by Chris Hall (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152921534@N07/), on Flickr
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4334/36588377570_bd1dde4901_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XKbZW3)stryker tank killer 2 (https://flic.kr/p/XKbZW3) by Chris Hall (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152921534@N07/), on Flickr
Cheers
Chris
Now that's a nice looking vehicle :thumbsup:
Looks a lot like a Centauro B1 (http://www.alluned.com/centauro-b1/) vehicle
Gondor
Quote from: Gondor on February 22, 2017, 10:57:24 AM
Looks a lot like a Centauro B1 (http://www.alluned.com/centauro-b1/) vehicle
Gondor
I have been looking for 1/72nd scale Centauro's and the only one I can find is a resin one that is way out of my price range, but they are a nice looking vehicle for sure. I am going to build a vehicle for the Honduras army that could either be a tank hunter or an infantry support vehicle.
Chris.
Quote from: chrisonord on February 22, 2017, 11:54:50 AM
Quote from: Gondor on February 22, 2017, 10:57:24 AM
Looks a lot like a Centauro B1 (http://www.alluned.com/centauro-b1/) vehicle
Gondor
I have been looking for 1/72nd scale Centauro's and the only one I can find is a resin one that is way out of my price range, but they are a nice looking vehicle for sure. I am going to build a vehicle for the Honduras army that could either be a tank hunter or an infantry support vehicle.
Chris.
There is a Partworks series, Military Vehicles, that has the Centauro B1 in the range.
Altaya,the firm was taken over recently and back issues, while available, arrive with the speed of a glacier... ask me how I know...
HTH
Cheers Rick,
I will look them up :thumbsup:
Chris
Here they are:
http://www.themotorpool.net/Amercom-Modern-Era-Military-Vehicles-s/3062.htm
I was doing some more trawling m'ownself and found'em.
A wee bit more expensive than in the Partworks series, but the range is larger here and supply presumably better.
Also the models available varied from country to country; as in the Katyusza, Grad and BTR-80 were in the normal fortnightly series in the UK, but Subscription only specials here in NZ.
And you don't get a surplus magazine with sometimes questionable facts and figures...
ANYhoo, I hope this is of use to you.
Cheers Rick,
I might just invest in one of these if I can find them over here, quick new paint job, and away it goes to join its fellow Honduras Armour.
:thumbsup:
Chris.
Very cool. I was thinking it was a Russian turret at first ! Love the camo the idea makes sense too.
:thumbsup:
I can cheat with this and put the turret from the anti aircraft version of the Sheridan on it too. I initially was going to put an unmanned turret on it with an auto gun, but the sheridan turret worked out an easy option and it looked right.
Chris
Chris, I just found something even more interesting:
http://acemodel.com.ua/en/soon
A company in the Ukraine will soon have a 1/72 plastic kit Centauro.
Cool!
Quote from: Rick Lowe on February 28, 2017, 05:22:11 PM
Chris, I just found something even more interesting:
http://acemodel.com.ua/en/soon
A company in the Ukraine will soon have a 1/72 plastic kit Centauro.
Cool!
Hello again Rick,
I have been watching Ace like a Vulture, as they have some other tasty kits coming out too, one being the V-150 commando, which I WILL be buying several of.
Cheers
Chris.