AVGP Cougar monument CFB Kingston

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Originally Posted by Robin Craig

Rob,

actually the two postings, about the monument and the traverse mechanism are actually unrelated, their only connection is that they happened at the same time.

Is the Grizzly powered traverse mechanism the same as the Cougar?

R

Robin

I doubt it. The Grizzly turret is a US-made Cadillac Gage (IIRC) .50 cal and C5 (beltfed M1919A4) dual machine gun turret. The Cougar is UK-designed Scorpion tank turret with the low pressure 75mm gun.

[Perry Kitson]

Terry is correct. Grizzly turret weight was 820kg., fully kitted w/crewman. Cougar is 1860kg., fully kitted w/crew. Weight difference necessitated a more robust mechanism.
Grizzly used a single speed traverse gearbox, Cougar had a variable speed gearbox made by Dunlop. Sorry, no pictures at this time.

Perry