[wku man]

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!

[Joe 6-pack]

The M8 was going to be known as the "Buford". Never heard of it referred to as the "Stingray", and it was a new design from the ground up, not Sheridan based.

It had the same 105mm main gun as the M60 and M1 Slick, but was equipped with an autoloader which left it with a 3-man crew. Like the Sheridan it was designed to be transportable in a C-130. One of the neat features I thought would make it especially for an assymetric/OOTW type operation is that it had three bolt on armor "suites" which allowed the level of armor protection to be upgraded in theater according to the conditions on the ground.

[wally_bert]

I always had a soft spot for the Sheridan and when I played NG for a while, there was a Sheridan TC in the same outfit. He was one wild dude but a good guy.

This one was sitting at an aviation museum in Charlotte. I think it is just a sealed up body.

http://tysonneil.smugmug.com/Military/M551-Sheridan-Tank/12993910_Xo3fx#940273551_TeUKK

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