My continous whining about AMX-13 and SM-1 problem have attracted Mr Steve C (BARV) from UK. He has ask that we show him some picures of SM1 and our amx-13. The more details the better. He will then give us some opinion and he''ll attempt to make one. If he succeeds, i think we might want to follow
Here is the quote of his PM to me




So i have invited Mr Steve C from Uk to our small forum. I think that we should give him as much info about SM-1 and as much photos that is possible. So come on Singapore, we got an ex WO2 to help us.

Specs from Armor webpage
Dimensions

Gun to Rear : 7.4 m
Hull without Gun : 4.88 m
Overall : 2.62 m
Unloaded Weight : 16200 kg
Combat Weight : 17200 kg
Ground Pressure : 0.876 kg/cm2

Engine
Make And Model : Detroit Diese l6V52T
Fuel Type : Diesel
Horsepower : 290 BHP
Fuel Capacity : 480 L
Transmission : ZF 5WG 180, Automatic

General Armament

1 X 75mm M50 Gun
1 X 7.62mm Coaxial MG
1 X 7.62mm CMG
4 X 81mm Smoke Bomb Launcher

Performance
Max (Road) : 60 km/h
Cross-Country Speed : 35 to 45 km/h
In Water : N.A
Cruising Range : 450 to 500 km
Operational Hour : 16 to 19 hrs
Fuel Consumption : 1 litre/km

By the way guys, the body of the our Bionix is the same as the old amx-10

A great place to find BIONIX
http://www.one35th.com/bionix/bi_intro2.htm

Something from ebay europe

Hello,
I am honoured to be asked to join this forum.
To introduce myself may I say that my back-ground is that of an engineer who went into the army and has now retired.
50 + years of military modelling , now specialising in recovery -engineering vehicles with the odd tank -transporter ...............more than a few "scratch-built"



A few bits and pieces
As the AMX-13/SM-1 are not my normal area I may require a bit of time to collate the info needed.
Pics-measurements and any observations can be "e-mailed"---nothing is to small--every-thing helps
Again......My grateful thanks for the invitation,
aye,
BARV

Well hello Steve Thanks for helping us out on this. Sure will do, if I do happen to stumble upon details about AMX-13/SM-1, I'll bring it up here for all.

All,
Chaunren???,,,,,,,,have you still got info on AMX13 SM-1??? Pics of the baskets would heip.......it takes lots of hunting ..sometimes.... to get all the facts..part of the challenge
If the is a "go" ..I will do a pic build for you all..or we can all do a "Mass"on-line build .....now thats something different :-) :-) :-)
Waiting in anticipation
aye
BARV

I don't know about the SM-1, but there's lots of AMX-13 here.

http://www.jedsite.info/tanks/alpha/amx-13_series/amx13-series.html

Cheers,

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