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The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
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Roy_A_Lingle
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
Hi Folks! Took a small break for this site to visit Australian and the PMMS model club web site. Under new kits, AFV Club, kit number AFV35100, due out Spring 2006, is a Vietnam version of an AFV that has been to long in showing up for all us model builders! Spot Report! Sgt, Scouts Out! _________________ "You can never have too much reconnaissance." General G.S. Patton Jr.

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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: Re: The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
Vietnam? I thought they were only in Korea! This would be the NATO 105mm version? Jeff

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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: Re: The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
Hi Jeff! The British Army took the Centurions to Korea. The Australian Army took the Centurions to Vietnam. That tank gets around. Barrel - Not sure, I think it is a 105, but the type A and not the type B which looks like the NATO 105s on the M60 and German Leo Is. Spot Report! Sgt, Scouts Out! _________________ "You can never have too much reconnaissance." General G.S. Patton Jr.

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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
The Centurion Mk.5/1 used in Vietnam still had the 20-pdr, not the NATO 105mm. The later 20-pdr barrel had a fume extractor somewhat similar to the 105mm tube. David www.diggerhistory.info...turion.htm

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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
Speaking of....here is a link I'd posted on the old forum with 8 good color pics of Cents in Vietnam: www.106fdwksp.com/imag...ns_in_wksp

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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: The Royal Australian Mk 5/1 Centurions are coming!
Interesting!

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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:44 am
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Hi David! Hi Folks!

"The Centurion Mk.5/1 used in Vietnam still had the 20-pdr, not the NATO 105mm. The later 20-pdr barrel had a fume extractor somewhat similar to the 105mm tube."

Thanks for the correction David. I was wrong on two counts. It is the 20 pdr that had a Type A barrel (like the old Tamiya kit) and a Type B barrel which for those of us who didn't know the differents was thinking it was a version of the NATO 105mm tube.

Spot Report, update!
Sgt, Scouts Out!

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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:52 am
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Hi Guys, great news, the cent was used by Australia with the 20 pdr for its entire life. It was replaced in the 70's by Leopard 1 A3 (AS1 - a highly modified a3).
Aussies and Kiwis served in Brit Cents during the Korean war to gain experience on the type and batttle experience.

The MK V is a great kit to do as just about all users had Mk 5 or simple upgrades at one stage or other. I look forward to further variants.

Some great ref sites are:
www.mheaust.com.au/

www.awm.gov.au/database/index.asp

www.black-berets.asn.au/

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