moca SG Now that we will soon have Leopards in service, what will become of the Centurions? Would SAF keep them as MBT, or convert them to something else? Or junk them? Will SAF eventually acknowledge or deny officially the existence of the Centurion/Tempest before they head for the scrap heap? Would one be placed at some museum for us to gawk at? Here's some pics of foreign Centurions since no one has any pictorial confirmation of our own fleet. IDF Sho't Aussie Centurion
moca SG Here are some alternatives to scrapping the Centurions, some IDF heavy armour APC/IFV... mainly for urban "low-intensity combat". Suppose to replace M113 cos they have better protection against RPGs. IDF Nagmasho't IDF Nagmachon IDF Nagmachon IDF Puma
moca SG The Jordanian version - Al Temsah - is ingenious in that they reversed the chassis so that the engine is in front and the rear can install a exit ramp which the IDF version cannot.
moca SG Other applications... UK Centurion ARK (Armoured Ramp Carrier) UK Centurion ARV II (Armoured Recovery Vehicle) UK AVRE 165 (Engineer Vehicle) IDF MAR-290 (290mm ground-to-ground missile launcher)
equlus84 SG I think they should be converted to bridge layers or engineer vehicles with mine rollers or flails. Since our MBT force is slowly growing, we will need more of these for urban ops. Another suggestion is to raise a opforce coy out of the centurions. Since our neighbours are slowly building up armoured capabilities, it will be better for us to test out our armoured doctrines to a next level in a more realistic red vs blue kind of exercise.
moca SG Would you like to explain why you think so? How much space is reauired to store one MBT? Multiply that by 100 and how much space is that?
tankee1981 SG Problem? We are already storing them for quite some time now so i don't see why we can't store them for a while longer.
^Delta^ SG Most MBTs do not measure more than 10m x 4m. Storing a hundred Centurions whould translate to an area around half a football field. Is Singapore so small that it cannot even spare that land? Which may not matter at all if all these tanks are stored underground in carverns, which is the most likely course of action.
CM06 SG Why, how to see it if it doesnt exist? It doesnt exist. Dont ask about stuff that dont exist.
tankfanatic SG what so secret about that? SAF already bought the Leo. leo is even poerfull than the tempest. Whats the point of hiding it?
wonderamazement SG There's a new army musuem coming up right? Maybe one of them might be placed there... Few others donated to educational institutions? The fate of the rest might be in the hands of Natsteel?
