Re: CMD Future Wars products

On Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:18:28 +0000 "Mike Wikan" <mww@n-space.com>
writes:

>Well, I live in Orlando home of Lockheed Martin (where half our staff 
>came from) and ECC International Corp. where I am good buds with the 
>V.P. of Marketing... The M1A2 was in their High Bay to make a 
>simulator mock up. The new M1 has a more powerful gas turbine, still 
>has a manual loader (the U.S. Army has a definite bias against 
>autoloaders stemming from some accidents during trials in the 70s) 
>also you may have noted that it is substantially heavier than the M1. 
>The main weight difference is the new version of the Chobham Armor. 
>They say it can deflect a 122 mm Tungsten Penetrator on the forward 
>turret slope! I also got to see the new Saudi MOWAG Piranha with the 
>25mm Bushmaster Autocannon, but that's another story.. ;-)
>Mike Wikan
>Game Design\Conceptual Art
>n-Space, Inc.
>

All I can say is D-R-O-O-O-O-L	 D-R-O-O-O-O-L

Paul