M6A1 Heavy Tank
Ft Knox....

I know you're probably coming in dial-up Haji, but ya might wanna look that one up.

Knox has one? I missed that. They hiding in the the LST building?

M48?

My SWAG -- something the Israelis whipped up, mounting an M48 turret on top of a re-engineered T-54/55 chassis.

To this sailor it looks like some sort of Russky hull and suspension with a US (late M48 or M60)turret. I'd guess that maybe the Israelis might have cobbled together something like that, seeing as they acquired a bunch of previously owned Russian tanks from various neighbors.

Comrades,

It's either an Israeli hybrid, or a Japanese Type-74 with a muzzle brake. perhaps even a pre-production Type-74 or test variant. It's more the muzzle-brake that throws me, as it's a signature recce feature of the early M-48 gun system, but the chassis sure looks like a Type-74 product. Still, and all, the Christy suspension system screams Soviet. So....

Ya got me, John. Nive pick, though.

damn. you early typers are hitting on all the exact same things i was picking up on.

i'm just getting some kind of funky vibe off of this one, so i'll just say that it looks like a 1/35th scale Tamiya hybrid model using the T-54/55 chassis (but the road wheel gaps are wrong) and our M48 turret...

...all of which now convinced myself that i'm probably looking at something Turkish and it might just be real.

...(although my standard rule of thumb on Armored Vehicle Recognition quizzes is: "if it looks kinda stupid, it's French")

It is *not* a 1/35th scale model. It is a full size real tank. Just to lay aside any doubts on that.

than i would say this was an experimental model, with a funkified M48 turret (bustle looks weird) and no cupola atop a christie suspensioned aluminum hull, and after this model failed, they went with the M551 instead.

Oh no Muthra... It's the exact same Tank, that Godzilla loved to crunch in his early movies

Only a guess...M-47 turret on a Chinese export Type 59, probably in the army of some African state.

Hmm, is it one of those tanks our correspondent/contractor friend was trying to bring home a few months ago?

TE 95 experimental medium tank. Proposed as a replacement for the M-48, rejected in favor of the M60.
According to the information I have(http://www.mccoy.army.mil/VisitingFortMcCoy/EquipPark2004.pdf) 6 were built, only two remain. The one I saw was at the historical Equipment Park at Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin. I have no idea where the other one is.

I just Googled furiously and guessed....I was under no illusion I would be right...
the Haji is rarely correct...just ask my wifey...

Maybe that's why John Photoshopped the background all orange...either that or the tank is parked is a ginormous squash.

Turret looks like an M48, although it is missing the commanders cupola/mini-turret thing, and the rear bustle, and the big ass IR spotlight over the main gun.

That is an m48A3 turret with the TC cupolo removed. Those were used in a lot of places. I can't tell if that's the Y shaped muzzle brake or the T shaped brake.

The hull looks vaguely like a T55/Ti-67 (but it's not), except the wheel spacing is very odd. And the kicker is the roadwheels (those are not old russian roadwheels, but I can't find anything like that... Of course, there are no dead track systems being made these days, I think, man, those roadhweels look familair!

This almost looks like a movie kludge..

Could it have been middle eastern? Some kind of Army experiment with russian stuff, maybe opfor for us or them?

How odd...

Feh!

Well crap. It is the TE-95, BUT I don't think John's is the one in the .pdf file Fred Simons sent. The center 3 roadwheels in the .pdf file look filled in, while the two end roadwheels look spoked. It might be a crappy picture, but I've blown it up and fiddled with it, and it looks like spoked-solidx3-spoked.

Wow... I wonder if we just wanted to see if the Russian design worked worth a darn...