It also looks like you are missing the crosswind sensor (looks like a short, thick antenna). The box art shows it directly above the #3 on the tactical marking.

is that a abrams in the background?

That might explain you lack of knowledge when it comes to the infamous dust of Graf and Hohenfelts. Anyone who's been there in the summer can tell you it gets so bad you end up wearing your gasmask. The tanks, troops, and anything else end up completely covered in dust after just a few minutes on the tank trails. I've seen it dusty there in the winter also.

Is this a relatively new release? In any event, you've done a terrific job and most helpful is the progression through the steps of assembly.

All this talk about the M60 has got me thinking (very dangerious!). Whoch one of these (M60A1 or M60A3) would be appropriate for 2ID in Korea in the mid 1980s?

Jim

Eighth Army's ability to fight the land war progressed this year when the Army's first three COHORT units-a field artillery battalion and two infantry companies-were assigned to the 2d Infantry Division. Acquiring modernized equipment and intelligence forces has helped as well. The 2d Division already has fielded the M 198 155-mm. towed howitzer, AH-IS Cobra TOW, and a military intelligence battalion. Over the next few years, Eighth Army will receive some 180 new equipment systems, including counter-fire radar, the MLRS, Viper, Black Hawk helicopter, improved TOW missiles, M60A3 tanks, and the Tactical Fire Direction System (TACFIRE).

LARGE cranes lifted the M1A1 tanks onto the railcars at Pier 8 at Pusan Port, Korea. From the port, the tanks would travel by train north to the 2nd Infantry Division headquarters to replace older M1 tanks. . .Some of the newer tanks would become part of a war contingency stockpile, a collection of about 1,500 prepositioned combat vehicles. The older M1s would eventually be transported by train back to the port and shipped to the California National Guard.

In Korea, a suspension system problem in M60A1 tanks necessitated their replacement with M48A5 tanks from the continental United States. The change was completed in July 1979, 3 1/2 months after approval of the action and fourteen days ahead of schedule.