Here, an oddity I first recall posted by CaID on the old forum. It is brought to you by Panssarikolonna, a paintball and tank driving experience center in Finland that unfortunately closed in early 2023.
They have coined this vehicle “Projekti T-62”, with the simple goal of “creating a wagon that has never been seen before on Finnish soil.” Comparisons can be drawn to the child of a mad scientist, as this T-62 mounts no conventional turret, but rather, the vz. 53/59 twin 30mm anti-aircraft system found on the M53/59 Praga.
Unfortunately, due to the recreational intentions and deactivated armaments, there is pretty much zero chance this thing ever makes it to the game, but I thought it was worth sharing because it combines real military-grade components as opposed to a mockup.
Oh wow those are similar lol XD I think you are on a more right track than i was. It looks more like a Sisu than the one i linked due to the angle of the front and the number of wheels.
Great info, thanks!
The mount the second gun sits on looks the same based on the handwheel seen at the back of both of them, but without any armor on the front.
The truck shouldn’t be too hard to find I reckon, but the data on the ammunition might be a bit harder, though. According to Jagerplatoon it had APHE, SAPHE, HE, Shrapnel and Canister Shot. I only have some data on two Swedish projectiles used for the 57mm L/48 Marinkanon m/89, which was made by Maxim-Nordenfeldt/Finspång Bruk and seems to be the same or copy that Finland used.
So theirs should be similar or the same I feel as that was pretty standard early in the century. I don’t know what ammunition they may have produced later on, however. So take it with a grain of salt.
Design illustrations of shells
Design of the HE/SAP (note that it uses a base fuze). Name: Vanlig Granat/Common Shell.
Shell Weight: 2 575.75 grams (2.575 kg), ±25.92g.
Explosive Weight: 78.08 grams
Fuze Tube: 67.715 grams Total Projectile Weight: 2 721.55 grams, ±27.22g.
The other drawing I found show two shells, one being simply “Granat” which basically just means “Shell”, and the other one is more interestingly an anti-armor shell, “Pansargranat”.
The drawing only has one table of data, so I’m unsure if both had similar weights with just slightly different dimensions, or if it’s just data on one shell but not the other. Nevertheless, these are the weights for the parts given (converted to grams):
So, both designs are very similar to eachother, but on the second one the explosive weight is increased slightly with basically identical projectile weight (0.45 grams difference). The muzzle velocity is likely the common one on the gun of 540 m/s (not to be confused with 704 m/s which is only for the B-version with an L/55 barrel).
The poster on Twitter mentioned indigenous APDS developments, and even a prototype L/68 barrel for the 100mm. He claims that they can be found in a publication of a Finnish armor magazine. Source
