Update Jan 10, 2023

Now you can do skydiving with M103! (Working cargo plane with working vehicle locking mechanism, comes with M113 also)

https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/y5aT80/Working-cargo-plane-w-tanks-WIP-unfinished-Mighty-Hauler-STOL-airlifter

1:1 scale loose (looser) replica of M103A2 heavy tank. Not a strict replica, but built based on plan-view drawings, and dimensions, top speed, weight, etc. are roughly simulated so it should be pretty accurate. Built with Wernster's older damage model.
This is also a tech-demo for my possibly new resizable wheel based tread that actually moves up and down, all without mods! (But with high performance cost)
I built the model of this tank from scratch, but I borrowed some components/ideas from Wernster's 13-CM tank (such as the main gun rotator funky, traverse mechanism, etc.), and overall I owe a lot to the builds and ideas Wernster has shared on this site. Big thanks for the inspirations and their (your, if you are reading this) contribution to the community.

Feel free to use the tracks for your build (credit would be much appreciated)

Edit: Rather un-unexpectedly (ie as expected), this wasn't the first vehicle to use this style of tracks. Checkout AFV builds by Leehopard (such as this one (link). They had this/similar style of tracks, and were made some years ago. I don't get how this technique didn't become a common place, especially for mobile players, but now I know it existed, and there are more.

Features:
-1:1 scale model built from plan-view drawings (looser replica w/relatively lower part count)

-Resizable wheel based "treads" (tracks) that's shaped like an actual tread, with working suspensions for both the tracks and road wheels

-Damage model for vehicle combat based on Wernster's concept

-Gun stabilizer and auto-tracking AA machine gun (based on Aweyer26's auto-aiming turret FT)

-Armament-
1x M58 120mm Gun
1x .30-cal coaxial machine gun
1x .50-cal Anti-Air machine gun (remotely controlled)

Suspension GIF

Gallery

*V-100 Commando and M113 APC coming later

This tank should work in both Low and Medium physics settings. It took me some good hours to make the tire treads work on low physics, so there better be no major issues.

Credit

(stuff I sto- borrowed, tips that helped, etc.)

Damage model concept and various components by Wernster
Tank/vehicle damage model explanation (link)
(Tank is linked as predecessor)

Gun-stabilizer and auto-tracking turret FT by Aweyer26 (Aweyer26 has cool new FT controlled auto-tracking tailgun also, definitely check that out as well)
AUTO TURRET funky trees (link)

Sum FT code for rotator input from RA-5 by Stalker547 (from the included targeting pod - it's very neat)
RA-5 (link)

Info on resizable wheel traction and XML by Jumpingjack in this post, it really helped
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Forums/View/1179745/Did-I-Find-A-Bug-Drifting-problem-on-car

MVC on Simpleplanes Vehicle Team for info on res.wheel collider shape

Thanks to all, sorry if I'm forgetting someone of something.

Comment (#2)
I came up with the idea of using disfigured wheels as treads (& more wheels as road wheels) when I was playing with Wernster's 13-CM tank. I had played around with this idea before, but it didn't get very far since I couldn't solve the issue with weird hitbox/collider of the strangely shaped wheels (model and collision did not match).
I initially thought of posting the modified Wernster tank as a tech demonstrator, but I kinda wanted to build and have my own tank, so I decided to build one and incorporate this tech in it. Chose M103 as it was/is probably my favorite tank in terms of aesthetics. Turret texture looks kinda rough due to the way I constructed it and how the game handles the shadow, but I think it looks fine enough (kinda looks kinda like Baki characters and weird, though)

(Bit of a teaser)
M103 being unloaded from an LC-166 Mighty Hauler cargo jet



Cargo jet coming later (probably not soon)

Wip fictional modernized variant
M103A3 tan from Operation Dessert Scoop