RE: ARMORED CARS

At 8:47 AM +0000 3/18/02, Christopher Downes-Ward wrote:
>  > > those of us who had been to europe wished we had some of
>>  those big UK
>>  > armored cars with the 90mm main gun and MGs, or even some
>>  French ones!
>>
>>  76mm, but that's a nitpick.
>All the Scorpions are gone now. They've been taking the 76mm turret off
and
>putting on
>the 30mm Rarden turrets from the Fox armoured car.

Those would be Light Tanks. The Saladin was the armored car. The 
Saladin had a 90mm Main Gun.

The Fox had the 30mm Rarden. Foxes were just coming off the line 
during Vietnam. The Saladin's had been around for years. Heck the 
Saracen Wheeled APC was around for the Malayan Emergency.

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