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Armor/AFV: IDF [Israeli Defense Forces]
Armor and AFVs of the IDF army from 1947-today.
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halftrack with single 20mm gun
wolfik
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Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Posted: Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 06:09 AM UTC
hallo
I saw a picture of a halftrack with a single 20mm gun in a turret...
it was used 1956....
has anyone more info about this vehicle?
thanks in advance

peter
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Posted: Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 06:38 AM UTC
Peter,
Could you narrow it down a bit?
Was it American or German WW2. What was the setting? Desert, Forest, Urban.
I know the Israelis did some things with half-tracks but not sure when.
Good Luck
Tom
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Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005 - 03:13 AM UTC
hallo
it was an israeli vehicle with a single spanish 20mm gun in an octagonal opened turret and the rear of the vehicle was open too...
I found only a drawing of that thing...
regards
rfeehan
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Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005 - 03:54 AM UTC
Was it this one:

http://www.mheaust.com.au/IDF/Gallery/Halftrack/IDFHTgallery.htm

Scroll down the page and look at the last 2 images.

Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005 - 04:02 AM UTC
There are 2 pics of such a vehicle 1:35 scale model at the bottom of this page (from Sentinel website) :
http://www.mheaust.com.au/IDF/Gallery/Halftrack/IDFHTgallery.htm (the pics are "copyrighted")
According to the accompanying text, the builder of this model was not satisfied with the turret shape and other details...

HTH
Frenchy
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