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Dioramas
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"Medium"
coltm4
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Queensland, Australia
Joined: December 15, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 11:56 PM UTC
I was a great book 'behind enemy lines' by Terry O'Farrell, an Aussie SAS V'Nam vet, and he was on some sort of exchange with the USN SEALs, and they did a night time river insertion on a 'Medium' boat.
It is described as a wide flat-bottomed vessel 10-12 meters long, with low canvas canopy gunwhale to gunwhale, 2 enourmous out board motors. here is where it gets interesting...
On either side in about midships there was a 7.62 minigun, a .50 cal over the stern, and in the bow, a breech-loaded 81mm Mortar. It had nav equip and radios and drew (displaced?) about 1m of water. Described as "the ideal vessel for working in such a ****hole". Does anyone know if there is a kit of such a beast, it would look quite something compared to the PBR for example. thanks.... bugger... i meant to put this in the vietnam section... i'll put it there as well.
chip250
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Wisconsin, United States
Joined: September 01, 2002
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:17 AM UTC
Tamiya makes a PBR.

~Chip :-)
Mojo
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Ontario, Canada
Joined: January 11, 2003
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:49 AM UTC
coltm4

The closest thing Ive seen to that is a LSSC (Light Seal Supposrt Craft) by tamyia... Built one a few years back...
mikeli125
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England - North West, United Kingdom
Joined: December 24, 2002
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 02:46 AM UTC
Dragon also does a LSSC theres a 2nd hand on for sale in my local model shop
transport models
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