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Posted: 12/3/2023 3:47:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Xenon light put out 1Million Candlepower. You could light up a target out to 1500meters. The process was to have another tank light up a target and then the wing tank engage it looking thru their daylight sight. In the defense you would set up TRP's (Target reference points) and create a range card. Using the Azmiuth Indicator and the Quadrant Elevation. Then at night, if you had a suspected enemy tank. you could have the searchlight tank light up the TRP while the other tanks looked for and engaged the bad guys. You could only light up the TRP for 10 -15 seconds, and then kill the light and move to your alternate defensive position. (Which also had a range card set up during the day). Illumination rds. from Mortars was another TTP to engage at night. Thermal Night vision changed all that. And you had to have the driver run up the engine to about 1500RPMs when that light kicked on...The control box for it was located on the turret wall in the TC's position. There was a storage position for the searchlight located on the turret bustle rack. You popped the quick disconnects and the power cable that screwed into a receptacle on the turret roof. took three guys to lift that beast. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Hell Yeah M60 Dino Tankers Rule!  Here are some M60a1 and M60a3 tanks from the early 1980's.. https://i.imgur.com/rbHuYkP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lJK83Dg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ufXQA6l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3lcFJbd.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yd9MSbH.jpg How far would that light project? The Xenon light put out 1Million Candlepower. You could light up a target out to 1500meters. The process was to have another tank light up a target and then the wing tank engage it looking thru their daylight sight. In the defense you would set up TRP's (Target reference points) and create a range card. Using the Azmiuth Indicator and the Quadrant Elevation. Then at night, if you had a suspected enemy tank. you could have the searchlight tank light up the TRP while the other tanks looked for and engaged the bad guys. You could only light up the TRP for 10 -15 seconds, and then kill the light and move to your alternate defensive position. (Which also had a range card set up during the day). Illumination rds. from Mortars was another TTP to engage at night. Thermal Night vision changed all that. And you had to have the driver run up the engine to about 1500RPMs when that light kicked on...The control box for it was located on the turret wall in the TC's position. There was a storage position for the searchlight located on the turret bustle rack. You popped the quick disconnects and the power cable that screwed into a receptacle on the turret roof. took three guys to lift that beast. |
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Posted: 12/3/2023 5:38:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I seem to remember having an aiming stake with a red light on it at night when on search light detail at Graf. This was with Sheridans. I believe the light switch was in the loaders position. Been a long time. Mike Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Hell Yeah M60 Dino Tankers Rule! Here are some M60a1 and M60a3 tanks from the early 1980's.. https://i.imgur.com/rbHuYkP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lJK83Dg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ufXQA6l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3lcFJbd.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yd9MSbH.jpg How far would that light project? The Xenon light put out 1Million Candlepower. You could light up a target out to 1500meters. The process was to have another tank light up a target and then the wing tank engage it looking thru their daylight sight. In the defense you would set up TRP's (Target reference points) and create a range card. Using the Azmiuth Indicator and the Quadrant Elevation. Then at night, if you had a suspected enemy tank. you could have the searchlight tank light up the TRP while the other tanks looked for and engaged the bad guys. You could only light up the TRP for 10 -15 seconds, and then kill the light and move to your alternate defensive position. (Which also had a range card set up during the day). Illumination rds. from Mortars was another TTP to engage at night. Thermal Night vision changed all that. And you had to have the driver run up the engine to about 1500RPMs when that light kicked on...The control box for it was located on the turret wall in the TC's position. There was a storage position for the searchlight located on the turret bustle rack. You popped the quick disconnects and the power cable that screwed into a receptacle on the turret roof. took three guys to lift that beast. That's very possible as the Gunnery tables for the Sheridan were much different than the 60 series. I had a classmate in Master Gunner school who was in the 1/73 Armor at Bragg on them, and his command sent him woefully unprepared as there was no course for the M551, there was literally only one TCGST task that carried over and that was Armor vehicle ID, and apparently, they didn't do much of that either. I felt bad for him as they sent him home a couple of days into it. |
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Posted: 12/4/2023 9:54:55 PM EDT
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Great video.
Might have been on a M60 if I'd kept to my original plan and Joined the Army instead of the AF. I just wanted to drive a tank in Germany, brink beer and chase cute German girls. My dad failed to see the genius in that and demanded I join the USAF. Still regret that to this day. Sorry Dad. |
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Posted: 12/4/2023 10:32:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Great video. Might have been on a M60 if I'd kept to my original plan and Joined the Army instead of the AF. I just wanted to drive a tank in Germany, brink beer and chase cute German girls. My dad failed to see the genius in that and demanded I join the USAF. Still regret that to this day. Sorry Dad. I chose the army, and sometimes I wish I'd joined the AF - especially when I got to eat at one of their restaurants.  |
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Posted: 12/4/2023 11:38:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Great video. Might have been on a M60 if I'd kept to my original plan and Joined the Army instead of the AF. I just wanted to drive a tank in Germany, brink beer and chase cute German girls. My dad failed to see the genius in that and demanded I join the USAF. Still regret that to this day. Sorry Dad. Yeah, that must have really sucked getting out with such a highly marketable skill.
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Posted: 12/4/2023 11:49:19 PM EDT
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 Attached FileOur tank took part in local parades. Had the pleasure of pulling the power pack once. In this picture the local mayor is riding the tank as his car broke down just before the parade. Filming a local tv spot  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/4/2023 11:51:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/5/2023 1:24:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, that must have really sucked getting out with such a highly marketable skill. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Great video. Might have been on a M60 if I'd kept to my original plan and Joined the Army instead of the AF. I just wanted to drive a tank in Germany, brink beer and chase cute German girls. My dad failed to see the genius in that and demanded I join the USAF. Still regret that to this day. Sorry Dad. Yeah, that must have really sucked getting out with such a highly marketable skill. Didn't get to find out. I did ok anyhow so all good. |
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