love that... especially the extra 'terrain wheels'.

keep up the good work.

ps.. would love to learn more about zil screw vehicles... can you find anything special. I've seen the youtube videos on russian cold war vehicles, and the old tractors.. and the vehicle for crossing bering strait...

Chris

Interesting piece of history! Thanks for the info dstrol!

I do have my doubts about this vehicle's effectiveness as an Anti-tank platform based on it's 75mm or 90mm gun barrel, whether it was rifled or smooth bore......basically, that gun size was found on the WWII-era American M-4 Sherman that was found to be quite ineffective against the much more advanced German Main Battle Tanks (MBT) such as the Panther and Tiger series.

Even by 1954, let alone by 1963, the French should have realized that their mounted gun for this vehicle was even more ineffective and outclassed against other MBT's armor plating that fielded by the Soviets (T-55 and later tanks) as well as the NATO standard MBT's such as UK Chieftain. the West German Leopard I, and the US M-48 and later M-60A1 Patton tanks. It was also outclassed in the late 1950's and early 1960's in terms of firepower with the Soviet 110mm (and later 120mm smooth bore) and the UK/USA rifled 105mm tank guns (the US Army's guns having been manufactured at the Watervliet Arsenal no less that was/is run by the US Army's Material Command!).

Te EBR was equiped with the CN-50 75mm gun.

This was a french shortened derivate from the german KWK-42, 75mm gun used by the PzKpfw-V «Panther».

It was by far the best 75mm gun from ww2 and was still quite effective in the 1960's against most soviet armour.

There is absolutelly no possible comparison between the american 75mm guns (derived from the Scheiner-Canet 1898) and the german 75mm guns devoloped in the nineteen forties.

The german guns were even superior to the 90mm gun used in the M-26 Pershing.

IMHO, the EBR's 75 mm gun would have been quite ineffective against 1960-era Soviet armor. Even the 105mm rifled tank gun mounted on the USA's M-60 MBT introduced in the mid-1960's had a very tough time penetrating Soviet-made MBT's armor plate, as evidenced during the Yon Kippur War of 1973, so what makes you think a French made 75mm round would be effective? By logical deduction, in my mind I would think NOT!The only way that any NATO 105mm round would pierce Soviet armor of the 60's and 70's was with a 105mm Sabot round made either of Tungsten steel or DU that were originally developed by the West Germans and the Brits, and later adopted by the US Army. If I remember correctly, your typical run-off-the-mill USA armor-piercing round (HEAT) was barely up to the task back then. Most likely the Sheridan, mounted with the 155mm gun, may have had a decent chance of killing Soviet MBT.

Possibly the Nazi 88mm gun round may have penetrated some early versions of Soviet 1960's MBT armor (T-55 and T-62 MBT's).

It'd be interesting to find out whether the US Army actually tested any of these guns against captured Soviet armor? Probably such test results are still classified so we'll never know.

Just my 2 cents throw-in.....