These were so bad that the Egyptian army had them as bunkers buried up to the deck. Plus they had serious issues with the auto loaders
The history of this and the M50/51 programs was that a wall only a foot thick divided the two projects from each other. That’s right the Egyptian and the Israeli tank were developed right next to each other. Seems that the Egyptians didn’t think to look through the holes in the wall where the Israelis were constantly eyeballing what was going on next door I also a little thing about the French development of armor for other countries was they would develop for themselves shells that would take out both tanks in a third area..
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Robert, that’s a fascinating detail! Thank you for sharing!
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Always trying to help even if I have to dig deeper then most.
I was doing research for a book that never got off the ground and was digging though the IDF archives and found notes about it and that led me to a few publications that proved it.
BTW the Brits were doing the same when they tried to get us to go with the chieftain program
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My list:
M56 Scorpion
Covenanter
Semovente 90/56
TAM (Tanque Argentino Mediano)
LVT(A) Series (at least Italeri reissue their old ones)
Let´s hope…
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Probably time for the 2026 version of this discussion to spin up.
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i can make it if you want
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I’ll jut make it on the 31st because i think it might be too early to make a new one.
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