Okay Merlin, I'll bite, what is a BTDTOG? (I will probably regret this... :D )
Believe it or not Merlin, the old M60 series had marks on the end of the tube for the same purpose. using 2 pieces of string, some 100 mph tape,...
I know the latrine is out here somewhere...Hans, the map, before we have to clean up Fritz again!!...
You are all welcome gentleman (ladies ?) I know I am new here, and as far as I have seen the moderators are doing a bang up job, but a bit of...
Willys, right on the money! :D I should have known better than try and fool this bunch. (Of course we say Distinguished Computerized Armor...
Well, I hate to break up this discussion with my introduction... :D 37, Originally from Montana, 10 years US Army, all on tanks starting with...
Thanks for the info on the Bob Semple...never heard of that one...With a battalion of those I could take the cookies from any girl scout troop...
Kind of like the air filters on the M1 series in Desert Storm..never thought much about them till they tripled in weight from sand and choked of...
Neither have I, the only thing i can go from is gunnery in degraded mode, and even then you do not need pivot steer for horizontal movement.Still...
Actually Gryle I meant from a standstill. Traversing via neutral steer is going to set up a godawful shaking in the sights. Not sure you could...
Was it a low pressure gun? Seems to me that the vehicle would flip if fired with the turret traversed over the sides.
As for power, how much power could a 1500 horsepower turbine generate? Like say in an M1A2?
Lone Wolf, it would depend on the ammo they use. AP and HEAT rounds do not make a standard HE blast, though the old M60A3 had an azimuth indicator...
Hhhmmmm...not too sure about the traverse though. What looks smooth from the outside is impossible to track through a 10x sight. A bit slow coming...
Greetings all! Glad I found this forum, look forward to a topic I find very interesting. Well, tanks I have operated: M60A3,M1,M1A1,M1A2,...
