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"It wouldn't surprise me. I left the Army in disgust in '96..."

That's about the same time the Army cancelled the M8 Armored Gun System which was slated to replace the 82nd's M551 Sheridans.

IMHO, it would have been an incredibly effective platform for asymmetric operations...

Yep...I remember hearing horror stories about the Sheridan, such as it was so light, if you fired the main gun over the side at 3:00 or 9:00, the recoil could flip the whole tank over on its side. I also heard that firing a main gun round, at any angle, could knock the gunnery computer out of calibration. Don't know if any of those are true, but I never met anyone who was a big fan of the Sheridan.

Was the M8 AGS also known as the Stingray? I remember the Stingray was basically a Sheridan hull with a redesigned turret mounting a 105mm main gun (not the Brit L7). It disappeared from the Army's radar screen in the early 90s, but the Thai Army bought it. I remember thinking it wouldn't be a bad vehicle for us Scouts, to work as a team with our Brads.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

That's about the same time the Army cancelled the M8 Armored Gun System which was slated to replace the 82nd's M551 Sheridans.

Not air transportable by C130, and with a bad habit of tipping over on its side if the "main gun" was fired to either side.

I always wondered about dropping a Sheridan turret on a Bradley, though. It'd have solved a lot of the automotive problems we had with the early M551s.