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Greetings to all, I have a question - where the surviving XM1 Chrysler prototype turret is located now?

Indeed, inquiring minds want to know. In the late 1990s, this turret (or another of the Chrysler test turrets) was mounted on the hull of XM1 FSED prototype PV4 at the headquarters of the US Army Tank-automotive Command in Warren, Michigan (along with some other interesting early M1 test beds). In the decade following, these vehicles disappeared. I was never able to discover where they went, even though I was a TACOM employee and knew whom to ask – no-one seemed to know. Do these things still exist somewhere, or were they scrapped?

- Geoff_walden

Indeed, inquiring minds want to know. In the late 1990s, this turret (or another of the Chrysler test turrets) was mounted on the hull of XM1 FSED prototype PV4 at the headquarters of the US Army Tank-automotive Command in Warren, Michigan (along with some other interesting early M1 test beds). In the decade following, these vehicles disappeared. I was never able to discover where they went, even though I was a TACOM employee and knew whom to ask – no-one seemed to know. Do these things still exist somewhere, or were they scrapped?

here it is -

Looks like Firepower test rig original turret.

Does enybody know what are these mounts on XM1 for?

Where is "here"? I'm glad this turret survives.

Cheers,

Scott

- Scott_Taylor

Where is "here"? I'm glad this turret survives.

Cheers,

Scott

At Tank-automotive Command in Warren, but no longer there.

- Andrei

- Geoff_walden

Indeed, inquiring minds want to know. In the late 1990s, this turret (or another of the Chrysler test turrets) was mounted on the hull of XM1 FSED prototype PV4 at the headquarters of the US Army Tank-automotive Command in Warren, Michigan (along with some other interesting early M1 test beds). In the decade following, these vehicles disappeared. I was never able to discover where they went, even though I was a TACOM employee and knew whom to ask – no-one seemed to know. Do these things still exist somewhere, or were they scrapped?

here it is -

Looks like Firepower test rig original turret.

Yeah, that's a photo I took at TACOM in 1999, along with others. But I still don't know where these things went.