LAST EDITED ON Jul-15-22 AT 04:00 AM (EDT)
 
>a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun - Specifically an
>M19 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, which was basically an M5 Stuart light tank
>hull with a turret mounting two 40mm Bofors AA guns on it. These
>vehicles would require a referee's ruling to qualify for an orthodox
>Armorsport match, since they were designed and built during World War
>II, but didn't see active service until the Korean War. (And never
>mind that there are no airplanes in Armorsport.)

I mean, if the refs do mandate a replacement, they could always use a Skink. It was a Canadian anti-aircraft and anti-infantry tank that sported 20mm Polsten cannons rather than the M19's brace of 40mm Bofors pompoms. However, the Skink had four Polstens, and both the elevation and traverse mechanisms were hydraulically assisted. This meant that meant that not only were they good at tracking aircraft, they were superb at flushing out infantry - Wikipedia lists them as having an elevation traverse of -5 to +80 degrees, which is bloody brilliant for a support tank of any kind. Plus, no ref ruling for them is needed: the three Skinks that actually got built all saw action in 1945 with Canadian armoured units in the Netherlands. Here's the thing: they all liked the bloody thing. Its main purpose was just a bit late coming; by the time the Skink was seeing combat, the Luftwaffe was almost entirely banished from the skies of Europe. Instead it was used as an anti-infantry machine instead. Had the US performed a land invasion of Japan instead of using nuclear weapons, I imagine that it would have been very popular there too -- or some American version of it, at least. After all, the Skink's based on a lightly-Canadianized M4A1 Sherman hull.

This piece of AFV trivia has been brought to you by "Cassie spent way too long looking at weird Allied tanks on Wikipedia and now you get to share!". =]

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