The Chieftain's Random Musings Thread
Дата: 20.09.2015 19:53:37
tmaco, on Sep 20 2015 - 08:20, said: Sorry, I dont have the direct link. Have asked from the fellow who
translated and told me. Gist is that Wargameing have obtained an
AC1 from a collector in the US and was moving it to a museum in
Australia.I assume it is the cobbled together one that was supposed to be in Camp Marby in Texas. And possibly going to AAAM in Cairns. Both places have display tanks built from parts from different ranks. The one in US has the turret originally on the hull of the one in Cairns. The Challenger started his video of the T72 at cairns leaning on their AC1 made with a fake 17lb barrel to look like an AC4.
I am hoping WOT do a big publicity thing with this and release both AC1 And AC4. Remember there was an AC4 running around in one of the ASAP videos last year.
The_Chieftain: Not sure quite who has been leaking, but the information
above is generally correct. I probably can't tell you about the
further plans, but I will go as far as to confirm the above. We
bought it about two years ago. Plan A didn't work out, so we left
it on display in Mabry while we figured out what to do with it
from there. It was either leave it in closed storage, or put it in
public where people could still see it in the meantime. I had asked
them not to advertise they got it from us, but I guess things
changed. Anyway, after internal deliberation and forceful
discussion, it was decided to return the tank to Australia.
Timelines for everything related to the tank are flexible as we are
at the mercy of customs and shippers. It's still in the U.S. last I
heard. Anything more than that, I'm afraid, I'm going to have to
keep mum pending PR announcements or further leaks.
Potoroo, on Sep 20 2015 - 08:32, said: Why would WG go to so much trouble when there's a perfectly good
AC-1 at the Army tank museum at Puckapunyal and the Australian War
Memorial has an AC-3 in Canberra? The problem with the AC-4,
which is what we really want, is that it was never completed so WG
will have to work off whatever documentation they can find, but we
know they've done more with less.The_Chieftain: Aussie Defence Forces PR flat refuses to work with us even
for freely distributed documentaries, since we're a commercial
enterprise. Pucka is a military unit and can't do anything without
ADF PR approval on the matter. Similar concerns at Canberra.
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