Here's a consolidation of the information I've found so far.
Komatsu B78 IFV
Built by Komatsu, the JSDF in the late ’70s started a project to design an Infantry Fighting Vehicle that would aid troops in the field while also providing armored fire support. Mitsubishi and Komatsu both built...
What if the British decided to max-out the Scorpion light tank chassis by installing a 105 mm L7 gun in a wedged configuration similar to the Swedish S-Tank?
Consider that the L7 barrel was as long (17 feet) as the original hull on the Scorpion (5 road wheels).
We wonder if the extended (0.48 m)...
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/soviet/it-1.php
I also found a surprisingly good YouTube video covering the development and deployment of the vehicle.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHA7TN1WbQ
[IMAGE CREDIT: MoD (Japan)/TRDI]
The new name seems to have been adopted sometime later on in 2011, as can be seen in this TRDI pamphlet (page 8 [pdf pg 9]).
2010s
2020s
afv
armoured car
armoured fighting vehicles
cold war ii
future wheeled combat vehicle
japan
japanese ground self-defense force
jgsdf
jsdf
mitsubishi heavy industries
post-cold war
tank design
tankdestroyer
war on terror
This is an excelent site: http://mainbattletanks.czweb.org/indexeng.htm
In International projects there is an entry on a French-German project called Clovis. Does anyone have any info?
amx-13 projects
armée de terre
bundeswehr
df-105
federal republic of germany
fl-15
france
french fifth republic
marder 1 variants
tankdestroyer
west germany
Does anyone know the history to the 105mm (120mm??) development of the IKV-91. I have the following pictures showing differrrent turrets and guns with differrent muzzel breakes. Lack any information on the prototype anyone know more?
Germany experimented with a number of casement tank studies in the early 1980's, key designations for the proposals were Kpz-3, VT-1-1, VT-1-2, VT-1-6 (which sugests other intervinung models) VT-2.
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