Anything to do with tanks, Memes, fun facts, pictures, whatever you want. (after all tanks are just big guns on tracks.
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This is the only Tank I drove. 
M60A1
Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB) systems enable combat engineers to overcome a variety of gap-crossing challenges to help maintain the momentum of friendly forces on the battlefield.
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Those things are beyond amazing!
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I was an TOW gunner, tanks were just big targets.
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Just the commie tanks though, right?
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Here is me and my tank in Iraq. Leaving Kuwait and heading down range. 3rd ID in 03.
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M88 Recovery Vehicle.
The unit next to our airfield had a squad, 6-7 of these monsters. When they started these animals up it would literally shack the entire post.
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This is an interesting place to spend an hour or two if you are unfortunate enough to be stuck driving through SoCal. Lots of history and a bunch of tanks you can get up close to.
The war in Ukraine is providing some strong evidence that the age of tanks dominating the battlefield may be coming to an end. Will be interesting to see if they can adapt to counter all the modern anti tank weapons.
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The ability to EMP might negate this, it would be very interesting if in the future do to knocking out elcecs could bring back ww2 era tech with no electronic guidence and what not.
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Real neat.
What job in the crew did you have?
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Driver or sometimes loader. 120 mm Heat or Sable Round. @CombatCanine
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That’s a valid point. The majority of the U.S. military weapon systems these days seem largely or entirely dependent on GPS or other communication signals. Blocking those signals or taking out the source will render many of those systems useless.
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That’s cool.
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This is something That I have fun thinking about and I am surprised more people haven’t as we have the tech for potable and localised EMPs and this could knock out most guided weapons systems and drones.
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IIRC he was scotts irish ancestry???
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I’m not certain on his family’s exact European origins. If I am remembering correctly he was born in SoCal and was related in some way or another to several famous Americans including George Washington.
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