Team Yankee Unboxing: FV432/Swingfire Troop
October 18, 2016 by dignity
We're taking a look at more from Team Yankee in an Unboxing of the FV432/Swingfire Troop box for the British by Battlefront Miniatures.
The FV432 was an armoured personal carrier or APC, the equivalent of the American M113. The addition of the Swingfire Guided Missiles to the top made it even more of a brutal vehicle to have on your side.
Affectionally dubbed a 'battle taxi' it could fulfill all manner of roles protecting the troops inside from small arms fire and then deploying them at effective areas of the battlefield.
Which way will you build yours?
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Another great unboxing video, glad to see Team Yankee will be going strong for quite some time. John’s mechanical knowledge of these machines is amazing. I can barely figure out how to take apart my airbrush to clean it. Swingfires are indeed incredibly powerful missiles. Not the longest ranged, not the most accurate, but definitely the biggest boom. I distinctly remember reading a book on modern antitank weapons back in the 1980s, and came across a chart that had penetration values on various “current” (in those days) ATGWs (Milan, TOW, HOT, AT-5, etc). The chart had range, time to target,… Read more »
I have the urge to convert a 432 to look like the one I drove in Germany from 1987 to 1992. Mine used to have a ranger anti personnel mine launcher on the mortar hatch. Plus Engrs only had the LMG to mount on the commanders cupola. We also mounted a Chieftain back bin above the exhaust pipe for a bit of extra stowage.
great video guys and a nice story from john.
would be interesting to see johns CV for hobbies.
reading historic books.
model making.
repairing military vehicles.
Oh great….more stuff for Oriskany to buy 😉
I pre-ordered three boxes so I wouldn’t have to choose…