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Some goof ball on an M60A3

I like the picture of the stick & glove stuffed in the breach end.

6 crew? What, it has three loaders?

If I was being fired at by a 128mm machine gun, I'd be damned suppressed and maybe oppressed and repressed as well.

Depressed?

That's how it was for sure in Vietnam, it was like three cases or so to get your M48A3 out of a rice paddy, at least I think that's how much it was in Ralf Zumbro's Tank Sergeant, a great read, if you can find it.

I loved that book, especially the part where he beans a VC on the head with a ballpeen hammer. I used to joke that the ballpeen hammer was a tanker's true sidearm.

You probably had to buy beer for the wrecker or ARV crew that tipped you back over.

In case you run out of repair kits, you can fix tracks faster?

Silly cowgirls, don't they know that they need 5:1 ratios to win against the Tiger?!?!

There are 6, if you count the horses.

с новым годом!

Naturally, can't put any of that inferior communist nickel into my KRUPPSTAHL

 

Edit: what's a C&C machine and how is it similar to a CNC machine?

Maybe its this: C&C

poop. you beat me to it

Saved them for a few years maybe, they went under in 1996 according to that wiki link.

 

If only they could repeat their successes. Maybe have Death Wish 6 contain GDW manuals as a major plot point.

When GDW went out of business, it wasn't because of money problems but because Frank Chadwick was burnt out.

Man, I might have helped get the Chieftain's Hatch locked. 

Oh well, but LiB's sense of entitlement annoyed me.

Hey Walter, I like your police M113 article. I liked the photo of the M577 with the light bar on it. Who do they think they're going to pull over?

I remember buying that booklet when it came out.  I still have it.  That was back when I was a teenager and was rather fond of the GDW Assault series of platoon based modern combat.  I remember sitting in my room drawing up my own charts to convert the Avalon Hill Arab Israeli Wars (based on Panzer Blitz) over to the Assault rules system.  Yeah, I was kind of a weird kid.  

 I bought it too. I remember hearing that GDW made a ton of $ from it. They hit the shelves 1st with a guide and sold alot of them, was on the NYT best seller list. Basically saved the company.

Yep, been there done that, pulled the pack on M60A3 many times, had to clean out the hull.

I just saw a preview of the WoT December 2015 commercial, and it had the M18 "Rachel" in it.

It might be used as a sub-caliber training device.

I am speaking about ergonomics - location of buttons and screens is not very good. T-14 deisgners tried to solve this problem. 

Again, it is an M1A2, so new systems get stuffed into whatever space is available. I was on M60A3 and the M1 was much better laid out, but as new systems are added or changed, things get worse.

Abrams gunner position. Looks not much bigger than T-72's and not very ergonomic.

I'm 6'2" (188 cm) and I never really had a problem fitting in the gunner's position on an M1A1 (your pic is of M1A2). It was tight, but not uncomfortable.

M1A2 hatch. Interesting design.

The hatch can be fully open, like in this picture, or half open with the hatch popped up a few inches but horizontal over the TC so he can see out the gap. It can be a pain sometimes to open the hatch fully from that position, if you don't lock it correctly it will swing down and bonk you in the noggin, hopefully you're wearing the kevlar shell CVC when that happens. 

Does the black flag now come standard?

I've come to the conclusion that Iraqis suck at tanking. US tanks, Russian tanks, Chinese, whatever, they just lose them in an embarrassing fashion.

The M109 crews used to do this to the noobs as well. 

Another thing I've seen people do noobs is the "soft spot" test. Give a new guy a ball peen hammer and a piece of chalk, Tell them to tap all around the vehicle and if the sound is different from the "given example" circle it and initial it with the chalk. 

Hilarity. 

They tried that on my buddy Ray when we got to our 1st unit out of basic. My gunner tried to get me with a "front slope adjuster" for the M60A3, my tank had a weak torsion bar on the front & it was a couple of inches lower than the tanks on either side of it. I got a noob to go to the POL point for some "laser juice" for the LRF. I told him he had to wear googles and the asbestos mittens to protect himself from "laser burns".

Does anybody know if the M1 Abrams has a safety switch to disable the turret traverse when the drivers hatch is open?

I don't remember there being one, but it has been a long time since I was on an M1, and things do change.

Considering that a video crew was there filming the shoot, and one of the crew survived until the 1st responders  got there and spoke to him, it is a good chance that the cause of the accident will be verified.

Wait, you were a M1 crewman?

Yes, a Tank Commander in G Troop 82nd Cav, ORNG.

Potentially, and the smaller you went they were often hotter.  For the most part the baseline was ~75% to 80% of normal.

 

Very very few have pre civvy purchase shot-logs.  That kind of stuff is almost never found with the piece. The PaK 40 I know of, was a rusted hulk when it was found, and most of the M18's in the U.S. were in Yugoslav service before being brought in.

 

Some shooters do keep logs, but it's more for loading data than bore wear. You're not likely to see the kind of erosion found with more modern guns anyhow, as I'd bet the vast majority of civvy owned arty is 76mm or smaller, with most being 57mm or 37mm, simply because of size(The little M3's, BOFORS and PaK36's are easy to hide in a garden shed). 

Additionally if you note the homerolled 57mm projos in my first reply, you'll see the obturators are plastic, not brass. This, with the often conservative loading (to preserve brass) helps prolong bore life.

Thanks again. I didn't figure that the breach on Preston's M18 burst, that'd be a really rare occurance, but I didn't know anything about what kinds of ammo was used.

 

 

^that wasnt like his eaglescout troop or something. And clan emblems havent been that rad for 10 years atleast 

Distinctive Unit Insignia or "Unit Crest" of the 70th Armor Regt.

I was in C Co, 1/70 AR in Wiesbaden, FRG, 1983-1984. Maybe I saw you on the other side of the border Tied. 

Thanks for the info Meplat. 

So would the reloaded rounds have as much chamber pressure as a service round?

I remember from my time on tanks we would keep track of the rounds fired and what type on the DA 2408-4 to track barrel wear. Would any restored cannons have that data available?