Leopard 1 Driver Training Cabs in Canada

[Robin Craig]

I suspect that the tanks and turrets and greenhouses have been cycled through a number of tanks during their life as a way to even out maintenance and wear.

If there was a way to account for the CFR of the tanks involved and see what maintenance / conversions was done then we would have our evidence.

To me that seems the only plausible way to explain the numbers.

What say others?

[Ed Storey]

I agree, so lets say for arguments sake that DND only has 6 cabs and they are getting popped on and off tanks as required; then why would the numbers being reported not record 108 MBTs and 6 Trainers? Or even 114 MBTs and 6cabs for that matter (although the cabs don't have their own ECC)?

Running a check through each Leopard C1 record could reveal which tanks were used as trainers but this number may turn out to be 37.

Now which Ottawa landfill contains DNDs legacy Leopard files?

[Mike Cecil]

Gents, an interesting discussion, and I'm glad I'm not the only one puzzled by the numbers!

Thanks for the input. 6 or 8 sounds reasonable (6 sounds more reasonable than 8 given the number of tanks on the inventory.

Nice pic of the cab equipped C1, Ed.

Mike

[James P]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I agree, so lets say for arguments sake that DND only has 6 cabs and they are getting popped on and off tanks as required; then why would the numbers being reported not record 108 MBTs and 6 Trainers? Or even 114 MBTs and 6cabs for that matter (although the cabs don't have their own ECC)?

Running a check through each Leopard C1 record could reveal which tanks were used as trainers but this number may turn out to be 37.

Now which Ottawa landfill contains DNDs legacy Leopard files?

Simple. A gun tank is a gun tank regardless if it has a turret, or had that removed and replaced with a cab and set up to drive from the cab (which is a pretty cool experience). The cab kit was not a vehicle nor a weapon system. Good point about the number 37 and maybe that being the number of tanks in the CF inventory that had worn the cab at some point to spread the mileages across the fleet.