Re: DS2: Vehicle Design Philosphy

Add to that the M113, the M-4 Sherman (Ok, it's variants were limited to

tanks and tank destroyers mostly, but it was still a versatile design, 
mostly because it was cheap to build.).... yes, you get the idea.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Popeyesays@aol.com
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: DS2: Vehicle Design Philosphy
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:05:51 EDT

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

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