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MarkSheppard
September 25th, 2007, 01:26 PM
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2443/lav25bmpsv4.gif
Russian BMP-1/BMP-2 chassis fitted with Delco Systems Operations LAV-25 25 mm turret

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/998/as90t721dk9.gif
T-72 hull equipped with VSEL 155 mm AS90 Universal Turret

PlasmaKrab
September 26th, 2007, 03:33 AM
Aren't these former Polish upgrade projects?
I know that they spent the better part of the 90s putting every odd turret on BWP hulls http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif including the DelcoLAV-25, even though the version on your picture seems newer.
If you want strange hybrid SPHs, take a look at the old proposals made to India at about the same time, that included at least the South-African T66 turret on T-72 chassis and apparently a French AUF-1 GCT turret on T-72 as well (IIRC the T-72 base was a prerequisite in the competition).

pdoktar
September 26th, 2007, 08:36 AM
I´ve been training with a finnish BMP-1 that was fitted with a LAV-25 turret. A test version of upgrading BMP-1s and maybe to test westen IFV armament systems. The BMP in the picture looks very familiar indeed.