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Re: New question - Modeling the USMC M1A1 for dummies?

September 22 2009 at 10:17 AM
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Response to New question - Modeling the USMC M1A1 for dummies?
The Marines do use the AIM, which stands for Abrams Integrated Management program. That's just fancy talk for a rebuilt tank that is being completely remanufactured and having the last decade's worth of updates added to it.

When Dragon did the AIM, they just made a US Army tank and didn't bother to include any of the USMC specific fittings. It can be fairly easily added to to make it a Marine tank by adding the Missile Countermeasures Device (MCD) on top of the "manhole cover" forward of the loader's hatch and swapping the Army style grenade launchers with the style the Marines use. They use a pair of 4-shot launchers on each side (2 pair per side giving 8 shots total per side). The Army uses the same 4-shot style on their Bradleys, M113 family of vehicles and armored HMMWVs.

There are other antennas included on the AIM that may not be in use by the USMC, but I am not sure what you guys use.

There would be some additional wiring for the MCD needed, Pawel has a pretty good Abrams modeling reference site that should answer most of your questions.
http://vodnik.net/pages/AIM/aim.htm

RobG

 
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