Also, the US M-8 AGS was armed with a 105mm gun also, and a concept Thunderbolt armed with a 120mm has been tested. And technically the Stingray light tank is more of a tank destroyer, also: armored only to withstand light caliber cannon fire, the 105mm gun is lethal against modern MBTs. The Steyr SK105 is a prime example of modern era tank destroyer. But the Russian ASU-85, a very thin-skinned air-mobile gun system armed with an 85mm SD-44 gun, still is. ![]() ![]() ![]() Certainly these vehicles have their modern day equivalents, in the form of ATGM vehicles and lightweight hulls mounting heavy guns.įor the record, M18 Hellcats are STILL in use in South America and some smaller Asian nations, and there are still M36s in use in South- and Central America also.Īs for the hull-mounted gun platforms like German and Russian SP guns: the Jagdpanzer Kanone, armed with the 90mm gun as used on M46 tanks, is no longer in frontline service.
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