I did some digging, and it looks like the smoke discharger/box combo is for the USFK M48A5's used by the US in Korea. The ROK M48's have smoke dischargers but not the attached ammo box. The US M48's also look like they had M2 .50 cals on the Urdan cupola vs the ARNG/reserve tanks stateside that just used the M60D's and did not mount the smoke dischargers. I have not been able to pin down a transition date for the M48A5 being replaced by M60A3's in Korea. I didn't get there till 91 and they had already transitioned to M1A1s.
I believe that the M48A5s in Korea got sold to the ROK, where they became WRSA versions (most distinctly, no side skirts). There was a trade dispute between the US and ROK about selling the latter the M60 so it would have been held back from deployment to prevent the Koreans from reverse-engineering it (which they did a lot of at the time) and to prevent diplomatic issues with the US ally. The US continued to refuse selling the ROK the M60, which led to the ROK working with a German firm to develop the K1, although the US decided to muscle in on that one and the end of the K1's development was with Chrysler, with the US maintaining export control on a number of components of the tank while doing some tech transfer to South Korea. However, as the K1 was all domestic manufacturing it required a longer lead-up time so the M47 and M48 continued on in service well past their nominal use-by date. Given that most of the DPRK's tank fleet were some variant of T54/55 or T-62 it wasn't a pressing issue, but the later Cheonma-Ho series (T-62 derivatives) were hard enough to require better armour and a 120mm gun on ROK tanks.
I do like that the range finder peices are separate with the little inlet. The M60 kit doesnt have the detail, making it harder to paint in the range finder lenses.
As always: great review 🥳🥳🥳 interesting, that you still use standard plastic glue and not the extra thin cement. I evaluate it as a gamechanger because you can simply put the parts together and then apply the thin cement with no residue on the model 🎉 looking foward to your next review👍👍👍
I think it's a sunk cost fallacy on my part on the basis that I have, like, six of the Revell Contacta sitting in my drawer that never seem to run out. I should switch to an extra thin, though.
@@breakthroughassault4791 of course the choice is yours👍and your environmental awareness is commendable 😉👋👋👋 My Contacta always 😉dried, and using the lighter to clean was a little bit unhealthy.🤢 As mentioned: cant wait for you next review😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
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I did some digging, and it looks like the smoke discharger/box combo is for the USFK M48A5's used by the US in Korea. The ROK M48's have smoke dischargers but not the attached ammo box. The US M48's also look like they had M2 .50 cals on the Urdan cupola vs the ARNG/reserve tanks stateside that just used the M60D's and did not mount the smoke dischargers. I have not been able to pin down a transition date for the M48A5 being replaced by M60A3's in Korea. I didn't get there till 91 and they had already transitioned to M1A1s.
Excellent digging!
I believe that the M48A5s in Korea got sold to the ROK, where they became WRSA versions (most distinctly, no side skirts). There was a trade dispute between the US and ROK about selling the latter the M60 so it would have been held back from deployment to prevent the Koreans from reverse-engineering it (which they did a lot of at the time) and to prevent diplomatic issues with the US ally.
The US continued to refuse selling the ROK the M60, which led to the ROK working with a German firm to develop the K1, although the US decided to muscle in on that one and the end of the K1's development was with Chrysler, with the US maintaining export control on a number of components of the tank while doing some tech transfer to South Korea. However, as the K1 was all domestic manufacturing it required a longer lead-up time so the M47 and M48 continued on in service well past their nominal use-by date. Given that most of the DPRK's tank fleet were some variant of T54/55 or T-62 it wasn't a pressing issue, but the later Cheonma-Ho series (T-62 derivatives) were hard enough to require better armour and a 120mm gun on ROK tanks.
I do like that the range finder peices are separate with the little inlet. The M60 kit doesnt have the detail, making it harder to paint in the range finder lenses.
Yep. It certainly helps add some detail.
As always: great review 🥳🥳🥳 interesting, that you still use standard plastic glue and not the extra thin cement. I evaluate it as a gamechanger because you can simply put the parts together and then apply the thin cement with no residue on the model 🎉 looking foward to your next review👍👍👍
I think it's a sunk cost fallacy on my part on the basis that I have, like, six of the Revell Contacta sitting in my drawer that never seem to run out. I should switch to an extra thin, though.
@@breakthroughassault4791 of course the choice is yours👍and your environmental awareness is commendable 😉👋👋👋 My Contacta always 😉dried, and using the lighter to clean was a little bit unhealthy.🤢 As mentioned: cant wait for you next review😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀