not that I've ever seen. I just made a run through at the Barrel Store and they listed a 40 MM Bofors L60 but the gun on the York was a L70 and I don't know if the flash protector is the same. I flew drones against the what was then called DIVAD in the late 70's to early 80's at White Sands, lots of funny stores about that flawed system. But I built Tamiya's kit anyway.
We were presenting the system, a helicopter drone called the QH-50. Its a pretty small target so we didn't have to go out very far. Well this day for some reason, (actually more common than not) the command link with the drone was lost. We had almost a dead calm day and the drone was hovering at a few hundred feet, just drifting back and forth. The DIVADS expended its entire magazine of ammo at a almost point blank range. No hits. The drone driver went out and asked a Army Officer for his sidearm and said "hell he could shoot it down with a pistol". All of the Ford Aerospace guys were quite embarrassed. Then there was a time when Senator Goldwater came to town, but that's a whole other story. Oh and the QH-50 it finally ran out of fuel and crashed. Subsequently drones were equipped with flight termination systems to prevent occurences like this, and the drone that flew from White Sands across El Paso and into Mexico.
The biggest shortcoming of the Tamiya kit is they don't correctly depict the rebuilt hull rear seen on the real Sgt. York. A small plastic appendage is added to suggest the change, but it isn't even near to being correct. However, in one of their rare forays into kit correction, Eduard offers a substantial photoetched brass upgrade to depict the rear hull mods. As for barrels, I haven't seen any, but again, some of the generic Bofors barrels might work.
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