Chieftain "Flak Panzer"

[HL-10]

Saw this at IWM Duxford last week.

Its definitely a Chieftain hull with what looks like a Flak Panzer Geppard Turret on it.

Anyone know anything about it?

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Thanks for looking

[Panzer Vor!!!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marksman_anti-aircraft_system

Never entered service sorry to say but looks cool , saw it running at War and Peace few years ago

[Dads203]

The Marksman system, Accurate Armour do a nice 35th scale conversion for the Tamiya Chieftain.

[Centaur95]

The only customer for the Marksman system was Finland. I think they purchased about 12 turrets and fitted them to T55 hulls (purchased specially from Poland). The turret was designed as a self-contained drop-in for most MBT hulls (the default option was the T54/55 family but with an adaptor collar it could fit just about any then-current MBT hull).

The prototype turret was trial fitted to T55, Type 59, T72, Chieftain, Centurion and M60. There was even a concept to use it as a fixed defence system on a concrete bunker.

The production turrets (for Finland) had a later style of gun pod rather than the same Gepard-style multi-angular examples on the prototype.

The Accurate Armour turret is nice but I think it's the prototype, so you couldn't do the Finnish ones.

Cheers,

Centaur

[spruecutter96]

Morning, All.

I was chatting to a fella from the Duxford Military Vehicle Preservation Society and he said that BAE Systems sold this to the museum for the very reasonable sum of £1! And that included the delivery. He said that the gun breeches have been removed - for obvious reasons - and that the radar system was great at tracking air-liners in the local area.

Cheers.

Chris.