SEB Nam Pack 2.0

[Eviscerator]

the M60A1 was made in 1962 so its pretty definate they made it to vietnam, not many, but some were there, same with the vulcan, they were definately there, just not used an awful lot, but add some variety and the m163 will come in handy when those migs are flying around

[Bomberman]

hey! guys... are you going to make an improved la trang with better textures and new taller trees?! it would be a bummer if you didnt :-\

[Vyper]

I remember the dayz of Eviserators first non-O2 Huey....and the early screens of the Ia Trang...oh those were the days. And now these are better! Any shots of the new Ia Trang, and what changes have been made?

Merci

Vyper

[imemyself]

YOu may not know for sure, but should it released this weekend?

[ebud]

No way this weekend. We just went into testing, and there will probably be lot's of bugs and minor errors to fix. I just received all the PBO's a day ago. With the amount of things in the pack, testing and fixing will be a week or so. I'd say one solid week for testing, one solid week for refinements. So pretty much exactly 2 weeks from today is my best guess.

[viper172]

well it seem that we gonna have to wait for the release of that very promising pack so that's what i'm gonna do.
great job guys this is probably the most detailed pack i've ever seen in progress right now great and amasing work guys

[ollie]

Eviscerator, any word from Select This about the MedEvac Huey's being included in the new Vietnam pack?.

[Nixer6]

Evis,

You may be right about the Vulcan, don't know.

I think there was an M60, not M60A1, that came out in the 60's. I guess I'll check

Got my curiousity goin....

Ok here's a pic of the M60
http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/m60.jpg

And some Info:

The turret and armament on this vehicle appears similar to that of the M48A5 tank, but the hull is noticeably different. The front hull is wedge-shaped and straight as opposed to M48's rounded, cast hull. The road wheels on the M60 are forged aluminum, and there are reinforcing struts running around the circumference of each wheel. M60 inherited the very large cupola of the Patton series, and the 12.7mm M85 machine gun could be aimed, fired, and reloaded from under armor.

Now I gotta find some dates.. Best that I can tell, the original M60, with a Turret like the M48, was deployed 1st in 1961. No doubt they all went to Europe, to face the Evil Russian Hordes

Here's a link about the M60A1
http://www.soft.net.uk/entrinet/armour9.htm

Found some 11th Armored Cavalry Sites with some Historical Info.
The 11th ACR (Blackhorse) was in Vietnam until 1972, and they only had M48's.
http://blackhorse.dartmouth.edu/dcompany/

There was some debate about armor even being deployed to Vietnam it seems. I would imagine all the M60's went to 7th Army (Germany)

It would seem that the M48 is the Tank for US and ARVN forces to Model for Vietnam.

 

[DeadMeatXM2]

the M-163 Vulcan was used in the Vietman war, but not for anti aircraft purposes:

"Since there was little if no air threat for US Army units in RVN the vehicles were switched to convoy support duty. The M-163 could lay down a withering hail of fire and was ideal for sweeping areas of vegetation which were adjacent to the convoy route. However, due to the high rate of fire ammunition usage and supply was a problem. The M-163 carried about 2,300 rounds of 20mm ammo on-board - enough for barely 1 minute of fire."

[Frosty]

Man, I been away for 1 week, and theres been another 30 odd posts! Look at all that armor! Man, this is something sweet. Just don't forget the three golden rules:

1) Marines. US. Many.
2) Demo Mission. That would really help people appreciate the 'Nam pack to it's full extent, allowing them to jump straight in and waste some Charlie
and 3) Drill Instructor. Well, I'm allowed to be hopeful, aren't I?

And two weeks for release is cool, that's when exams is over ;D ;D!

[Eviscerator]

an M60A1 leaving a compound in vietnam

either way it stays in, too much work to take it out and it also adds more variety to 'what if...?' missions, the vulcan has 60 round bursts at 3000rpm with a couple of seconds cool down(because i found a sound clip of a vulcan doing this), it may have enough ammo for a 1 minute fire in real life, but that would probably melt the barrels, also ive seen from a lot of sources that it carried 2100 rounds, so thats what ive used, i used as accurate load outs for the tanks as i could, so the M48A3 has 42 cannister rounds, 18 HE and 3 HEAT(just in case), pretty much the same goes for the rest, they all have some kind of high explosive weapon and some HEAT (there wasnt much point putting AP rounds in as tank battles were scarce the tank crews didnt carry them)

oh and there will be US Marines

[Nixer6]

I understand that the M60A1 will be left in. It should be, for now, as It is the only available, in the game, US tank of the period.

Evis, the caption on the photo you posted above, may have said that was an M60A1 " leaving a compound in Vietnam".

It's not an M60, or an M60A1. It's an M48A3! Why?

Quick armor ID class:

Main Gun Tube; the M48A3 had a 90mm main gun, with a muzzle brake on the end.

The M60 series had a 105mm main gun with a bore evacuator midway up the gun tube, no muzzle brake.

There were at least two 105mm variants of the M48 produced later on, one German and the M48A5 for export and overseas licensed production.

The tank in the pic has a muzzle brake. It's an M48 series tank.

FYI ;D

[Eviscerator]

well the M48 is in there too (using the M60 model for now, will be edited as soon as its possible), so it shouldnt be too much of a problem, and i was only going by the caption under the picture on another site , oh i also need to request something, to anyone here, i need M551 3 view drawings, i think its the only one im missing from the whole pack so if anyone has some/has seen some, let me know

[Nixer6]

Eviscerator,

M551, rode em, drove em and endlessly worked on em

Great main gun, 152mm cannister round and beehive, 10,000 1 in nails :wow: The missle was something else, an ir beam rider with really long range

They are definately needed for Nam pack.

Here's one link:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m551a1.htm

I'll look around for more

[Eviscerator]

thanks for the 3 views just need one of the top now, need to get the shape of the turret, and the Shillelagh missile wont be in the nam pack version as they were all disabled in vietnam, and i have some cannister rounds on the M48 at the minute (ill put them on the m551 soon) they are devastating to infantry, as youve worked on these how far do the nails go? im only working from websites and any other information i can grab, do you have any kind of radius? 50/100m?