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Walter_Sobchak · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 20, 2013 Posts: 122

I took some pictures of an M48 hull with an XM66 prototype turret in Armada MI today. If anyone wants to see them, they are here.

Costas_TT · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 15, 2012 Posts: 387

The air cleaner boxes would suggest a dieselized tank (A3 & A5), but only three instead of five return rollers? Interesting combo - M48A1E1?

Walter_Sobchak · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 20, 2013 Posts: 122

- Costas_TT

The air cleaner boxes would suggest a dieselized tank (A3 & A5), but only three instead of five return rollers? Interesting combo - M48A1E1?

That would make sense to me. I looked the M48A1E1 in Hunnicutt's book "Patton." This hull seems to fit the description.

Rick_Eshleman

Walter, Nice photos! I had seen photos of this tank years ago, Your shots are much better. Rick

Walter_Sobchak · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 20, 2013 Posts: 122

- Rick_Eshleman

Walter, Nice photos! I had seen photos of this tank years ago, Your shots are much better. Rick

Glad you liked them Rick. It was a bit of a drive to get to this tank so I am glad someone found the pictures interesting. This is certainly one of the stranger tanks on display in Michigan that I have found so far.

Dontos · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:00 am Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan

Its one of the late T95 prototype spin off variants...

Walter_Sobchak · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 20, 2013 Posts: 122

Good catch. I found some pictures of the T95E8 in Hunnicutt's "Abrams" book.

ChrisC · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 147

Next time you are over on this side of the state, you should stop by our museum!
We don't have a tank (yet) but we do have some tank related stuff!

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