Posted: 5/26/2005 7:17:41 AM EDT
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Not 100% the driver's fault, from the way it looks, as it appears that the wall of the ditch or canal collapsed from the tank's weight. Though he's stil get an ass-chewing from me for driving too close to the edge anyway. WTF did they do to the poor tank trying to unditch it? Notice the bore evacuator is missing? |
What's a bore evacuator? |
Priceless420. I saw the tank pic there and it has the site name in your pic. I assumed you snagged it straight off there. It's got some cool pics in the free section every day. The same day as the tank there were a couple chicks hugging. They look pretty good. ETA: there's nudity there so no one go there if that's a problem. |
Have you driven in a fjord, lately? |
ROTFLMFAO! |
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I can't see the pic, but IIRC the M1A1, M1A2, and M1A2 SEP all have the 120mm 44 caliber barrel. The bore evacuator is fairly pronounced. The M1A1 could have had the 105mm barrel, I don't keep track of all the changes though. You should see the 155mm bore evacuator and muzzle brake. There's a threaded muzzle and everything! |
OH! ok .... nope I got this off the Jeep forum I visit regularly. maybe there should be two chicks hugging on top of a stuck tank? |
YES! Or two chicks hugging in a Jeep, in Moab at Easter Jeep Safari! I'm actually a Toyota guy but I 4-wheel with Jeepers. |
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What do you mean 100% the driver's fault? He only goes down whatever road the TC tells him to go down. We had a tank do the same thing, it was the second down the road as we were chasing someone, the canal-side road collapsed, and in it went. I have seen pictures of an entire platoon of LAVs doing exactly the same thing. Took them four days to get the whole platoon back out again, the problem is not unique to tanks. (And that's not mentioning the HMMWVs that have gone into canals, of which there have been a fair few) It'd be classified more as an occupational hazard. NTM |
Oh, but of course. In our string bikinis that are too small, with a load of jello and a spray hose, just in case.  I'm just laughing that you actually said quagmire... 
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Clever or a Freudian slip (which -for a while- I thought was a naughty undergarment to go with skirt). |
This sort of thing was commonly heard on your intercom as well?: "Come left, driver. Left. LEFT! LEEEFT!!! STOP!!!! Your other left, idiot." Particularly when reversing. The T-Bar isn't so intuitive in reverse for some reason, it's kindof backwards. NTM |
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| some pointed out the lack of bore evacuator, but the first thing I noticed (now that I'm at home) is the utter lack of anything on the turret. No machine guns, no storage bins, no extra armor plating, nothing, like they just drove it off the showroom floor. I know I wouldn't go to the trouble of removing that stuff just cause it got stuck in the mud, so what gives? |
They may very well have just taken delivery of it ! Or do they train with them stripped? Like driver's training? Tankers .... chime in! |
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They may have stripped it in preparation to leave it or because it might turtle, or it could be a trainer. Sometimes the commo is not the best. One of my Platoon Sgts used to carry a section of Camo netting pole to "direct" his M113 driver with. WHACK! Turn left. WHACKWHACK! Turn right. WHACKWHACKWHACK!! Stop now!
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No machine guns, no storage bins, no extra armor plating MGs I can see being removed. We never did it ourselves in such situations, at least until the vehicle was on level ground, but if one really wants to be pedantic, according to the -10, all weapons are to be dismounted before attempting to tow the vehicle, so I can imagine that some genius higher in the chain mandated it. Don't see where you're coming from on the storage, the loader's sponson box is definitely in place, there's a roadwheel on the bustle rack, the APU takes up a large portion of it thus prohibiting its use for storage, and there's something in the rack on the other side of the wind sensor (Possibly something white in front of the TC's sponson that might have slid off the roof) and I've no idea where you're getting the idea of extra armour plating. Part of the reason it might look kindof quirky is because the mounting point in front of the loader's hatch has been modified to take the IR jammer that the USMC has fitted to their tanks, but the jammer itself has been removed. My guess is that they figured that it was going to be a while before they could get the recovery assets out, so they stripped the tank in case they were forced to abandon it before the assets could arrive. I'd wager the radios are gone as well, for example. NTM |
The big "box" you see in the middle of the cannon on many tanks. |
