Re: UK Sabre CVR(T) type vehicle

I finally saved the images of the SABRE, Scimitar, and Scorpion, looked
at 
all 3 at once, and realized that yeah, the SABRE is on a Scorpion
Chassis. 
Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

I've been looking at all of the vehicles in that line, including the
Spartan 
and Striker variants - I thought that, given the description and earlier

discussion, the Scorpion and Spartan would make great figures for the 
Cataphract from Jerry Pournelle's Prince of Mercenaries books, and I'm
sure 
with a little kit bashing the Spartan or Striker could be converted into
the 
SPG version.

I'll go back to GHQ's site and look through the British vehicles to see
if I 
can figure out on my own, before someone tells us, which armored car the

SABRE's turret is from. My question is, if it's so similar to the
Scimitar, 
why did they bother? Or was it just a budget-saving move, since they had
the 
Scorpions and the AC turrets already, and if so, what IS the main
British 
Recce vehicle at this point in time?

Brian Bilderback

>From: db-ft@westmore.demon.co.uk (David Brewer)
>Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>Subject: UK Sabre CVR(T) type vehicle
>Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:48:13 GMT
>

>
>UK Forces no longer field Scorpions. All the Scorpions had their
>76mm gun turrets pulled off and replaced with the turrets from
>some old wheeled recce vehicles (I forget which) that were being
>scrapped. These hybrids are called "Sabres".
>
>They are not very different from Scimitars. They have the same
>30mm RARDEN cannon and had a 7.62mm chaingun installed during the
>refit. These are the same weapons used on the Warrior APC.
>
>At least, this is what I recall from Jane's Armour and Artillery.
>
>--
>David Brewer

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