Sunday, September 25, 2016

Tank Hit by ATGM Results in Epic Cook Off



One guy, at least, got out alive.

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  1. Soviet era crap had that tendency. Based on my present understanding, the Russians have fixed some of the ammo storage issues.

    But it is spectacular.

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  2. This one took two grenades, but it's also epic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AevLyTR6lM

    Aside from all the gratuitous aloha snackbars, the regular people, for lack of a better term, seem well composed.

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  3. Cannon round propellants, paint, rubber/plastic insulated wiring, coax mg ammo. Old style hydraulic fluids ('cherry fluid'), oils, grease... lots of stuff to burn in M-48/M-60 series tanks, as any cold war tanker could tell you. Toss in the M551 Sheridan, with it's added aluminum armor, and Shilleigh missiles....

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  4. No one got out "alive". It was a towed target on a gunnery test range. No one was in it "alive". You can tell because it continues traveling at the same constant speed after being hit and you can see a marker on the tow line moving at a constant distance from the target.. Definitely not an M-1. But not enough detail to tell what it is. The US military used a lot of M-48 and M-60 tanks for targets (because we had so many of them). But this looks too low profile to be either of those.

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    1. Looks like someone bails out the top at about .27, plus, seems like a lot of cook off for a target shell.

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