Once again my old buddy Wayne Wanner has sent a few photos of his magnificent collection. Attached are a couple pictures of a simplified Dragon Anti-Tank Missile Launcher mounted to an old Roco M113.
Wayne has been using the small cylindrical part on the M1 sprue as a weapon mount for years, it's small, has the right diameter hole and is easily used. Anyway, the M175 Dragon mount is more complicated than he is making, but it is very convincing.
He took some old carriers and "up-graded" them some. The Dragon from the M2 Bradley really came in handy for a 1970's ATGM mount on M113's. He shaved off a little plastic and glued a mg mount to the bottom of the Dragon. It will fit right into the small round part glued just to the right of the periscope ring, at just the right height. The actual M175 mount was bolted to the TC's ring mount, just to the right of the "A" shaped MG mount and consisted of a angular shield too. Note also, for real accuracy the foam protective end piece on the muzzle end was removed, but for these he is going to leave them on, because that's what most people know as a Dragon shape.
Spare missiles should have the SU-36 tracker removed; the little do-dad on top of the missile. This was issued individually and attached to each missile fired, then removed afterwards.
2 comments:
When I was at Fort Benning [78] they were working on a "viscous dampened" mount to put the Dragon on an M-60 machine gun tripod. This would alleviate the problems of the gunner brething while tracking a target. I don't think they ever got it up.
Jim French.
Interesting technologies that they work on and never get quite right. Like the walking machine from the 1960's they are still working on those forty years later.
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