Hahaha, yea. He didn't get to keep the green stuff.KBCraig wrote:"This here's my sawed-off Abrams!"cyphur wrote:They had to cut off the end of the barrel, and the Maintenance Chief decided to use it as a 40lb door stop/conversation piece.
I guess that would screw up the optical collimator system, though, eh?
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- Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:44 pm
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- Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:59 pm
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I've seen a massive barrel failure on an M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank. I was on radio watch for the battalion(was in S3 at the time) and a Company Commander was making one of the last late night runs(around 3am) and the driver ran off the tank trail and into a ditch, but since the Captain didn't have a grip on the commander's stick, so the main gun tube didn't autoelevate to "keep on target". Consequently the main gun tube got buried in dirt, and they had to do a battlefield cleaning.
Apparently they missed something, b/c when they fired the first training sabot, it partially mushroomed the end of the 120mm gun tube. That tube is probably a full inch thick, at least - and its forged. Hearing that across the net @ 3am was rather amusing, to say the least.
They had to cut off the end of the barrel, and the Maintenance Chief decided to use it as a 40lb door stop/conversation piece.
Apparently they missed something, b/c when they fired the first training sabot, it partially mushroomed the end of the 120mm gun tube. That tube is probably a full inch thick, at least - and its forged. Hearing that across the net @ 3am was rather amusing, to say the least.
They had to cut off the end of the barrel, and the Maintenance Chief decided to use it as a 40lb door stop/conversation piece.