Re: DS2: Vehicle Design Philosphy

In a message dated 4/5/00 7:04:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
bbilderback@hotmail.com writes:

<<  No, I'm not proposing this for a MBT. But if you take 
 an APC, eliminated the squad bay, and add a turret, what you have IS an
AFV 
 of sorts. The idea is that though they may have different sized 
 compartments, turrets, etc., all these vehicles would be built on the
same 
 chassis.
  >>

Kind of like the Cadillac Gage 150 series, the AMX series, the MOWAG
Pirahna, 
the LAV 25 series, M1 ABrams provides the chassis for the Diana AAA gun 
system, lots of precedent for such a series of AFV's