M551 Sheridan Light Tanks in SAF service?

last SG · 2005-09-02T11:40:37+00:00

1560 M551 Sheridans (excluding prototypes and pre-production) were ultimately produced for the US Armed Forces. This is a comparatively small number compared...

Delta 5 SG

Who has any inking of this? Idea

Shotgun SG

I wouldnt say in service lar. I saw one display piece in Sungei Gedong camp, the armor heritage centre.

Delta 5 SG

It is hard to get information from open sources on the internet/defence publications about Singapore's Armour.

Same case as the M60A3 MBT. Tried to look for Acrobat Reader files on US Arms Transfers to Singapore but could not find anything. However I strongly believe that the SAF has a quantity of M60A3 MBTs delivered from US Marine surplus in service as well.

Delta 5 SG

Btw a 152mm HEAT round fired from the M551's main gun would easily take out even a modern MBT. Idea

LazerLordz SG

Marine surplus?Now that's something I've not heard before.. Shocked

SMAPLionHeart SG

Some things , we are not destinied to know about it.

Laughing

tvdog SG

Haha... M551 Sheridan, about 30 over years old.

But still comparatively "younger" than our 60 over years old AMX-13.

AMX-13 were built in the 1950's. Older than all of us here.

storywolf SG

Look under M728 CEV - we only brought the M60 combat engineer verison for use .

Delta 5 SG

Perhaps US Army surplus... But the US Marine Corps started to decommission their M60s in the late 1980s and it was logical for the SAF to acquire operational tanks straight from them instead of having to pay more reactivating older US Army M60s as the M1 Abrams was already entering service in large numbers by then.

cleong SG

The M551 Sheridan was used in the 1990 Gulf War. I’ve no idea if it was used in the actual ground war, but it was one of the first to be deployed to Saudi Arabia because it was the only tank in the US inventory light enough to be delivered by air-drop, as an initial response holding force.

LazerLordz SG

According to this site, we operate 30 M60A3s..

http://army-guide.com/eng/product.php?prodID=476

spiderweb6969 SG

i have no idea until i read the thick Janes World Armed Forces that we have M551 Sheridan...you can go to the National library 7th storey (you know that new big ugly building) to verify. maybe their mistake.

Delta 5 SG

Ah... Thanks for clearing our doubts... Smile
Its pretty certain that Singapore has the M60A3 now.
But I was expecting a larger number like say 120-150.

Delta 5 SG

Yup I got my info regarding the M551 in Singapore's inventory from that source too... Online version my officer friend subscribes to it... Smile

bcoy SG

Isn't the M551 a scrap vehicle for display? Somebody had a photo of it online once. Also, there's an old Russian MT-LB tracked vehicle lying around. Can't remember what else.

edit - photo here http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9932/sher1.jpg

the old unofficial Singapore Armour website - http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9932/

SMAPLionHeart SG

israel - 1350??

Shocked Shocked Shocked

LazerLordz SG

So?We also have close to a thousand APCs and IFVs.

kaka_22 SG

Hmm is the MBT issue still a Clasiffied one Question

LazerLordz SG

Well, let's keep the discussion to what is floating around.

gary1910 SG

If we do have M60A3, it should be upgraded to Israeli Sabra MkI standard.

One thing from here :

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/vehicles/tanks/sabra/Sabra.html

The Sabra Main Battle Tank is modernised upgraded M60A3, developed by Israel Military Industries Slavin heavy weapons plant at Ramat Hasharon. As with all upgrade programs the scope of a Sabra upgrade package is customised to meet a particular country's operational requirements.

Which country????
Read this

http://www.laka.org/teksten/Vu/where-how-much-01/main.html

As above, Sabra MkI was unveiled in 1999, Turkey started negotiation of the Sabra upgrade in 2000 and was later offered the Sabra MKII, not Sabra MkI which was actually designed for certain country, so which country again???? Cool