ET / Cairo, Citadel - the Army Museum

[Wayne McGee]

Pretty interesting conversion.
Isrealis mated up the turret of the AMX-13 (oscilating, high velocity 90mm gun with an auto-loader), to the proven, mechanically realible Sherman.
Unsure of the time-line, certainly after '56, but I'm sure a fair number were availible for the '67 'roadshow', probably when this one ended being aquired.
This is just one example of their genius for "making do with what you got" attitude that is still in practice today.

Cheers

Wayne

[Kuno]

Are you sure that the Israelis made this conversions?
All the Israeli tanks in that museum (also in another one in Cairo) were painted in dark green and had the gun barrel down. consequentially, I think it must have been an Egyptian tank. Last Sunday I have seen this tank as well in an old movie of the 1950ies. Depicting German tanks - the movie was filmed in Egypt.

[motto (RIP)]

Seems to me the reasoning behind the barrel angle is either childish or phallic in its symbolism. Either way I think it rather silly.

Maybe if you were to tell them that the barrel alignment is correct because the Israelis look down on them whilst they secretly look up to the Israelis they will reverse them all.

David

[Kuno]

David; I dare to guess that the Egyptians had something different in mind when they arranged the guns of the tanks either looking up or looking down.