| Triple000 | 22 Nov 2020 8:32 p.m. PST |
..when they drive like my grandmother.
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Shagnasty  | 22 Nov 2020 9:03 p.m. PST |
That is pretty impressive. How do you turn a 70 ton tank upright? |
| Wolfhag | 22 Nov 2020 9:27 p.m. PST |
Help, I've fallen and can't get up. |
| ZULUPAUL | 23 Nov 2020 4:43 a.m. PST |
Yikes! I would like to hear that tankers explanation! |
| David O Brien | 23 Nov 2020 4:56 a.m. PST |
I would be interested to see how the driver gets out of an upturned tank? |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Nov 2020 5:13 a.m. PST |
It's a Merkava, David O. The back opens up. It's getting out of the discussion with the First Sergeant which will be the tricky bit. |
| arthur1815 | 23 Nov 2020 6:09 a.m. PST |
"..drive like my grandmother" seems a bit sexist. My grandfather drove so appallingly around Sutton, Surrey, when he bought his first car c.1920 that my grandmother said she would never get in a car with him ever again. Years after he died, we discovered he had served in the V Tank Battalion in the Great War, and would have learned to drive a Medium Mk II Whippet – a barely bullet proof steel box on caterpillar tracks with three machine guns, powered by a bus engine – then the story made sense. |
| Major Mike | 23 Nov 2020 6:35 a.m. PST |
Starts out OK but once on fully on the ramp something is going wrong. Either the throttle gets stuck or the driver panics and instead of hitting the brakes his foot misses and ends up on the gas pedal. I don't know the spacing of the two pedals in the tank, but my guess is a malfunction of the throttle. |
| Frederick | 23 Nov 2020 7:03 a.m. PST |
Not a great career builder – and given social media can't pretty it up either! |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Nov 2020 7:03 a.m. PST |
It this turns your crank, buy a copy of The Pentagon Wars. The entire opening credit sequences is one tank fail after another. I love that movie. |
| Stryderg | 23 Nov 2020 7:24 a.m. PST |
Not that hard to do, on the one's I've seen the treads were wider than the trailer. You don't have to miss it by much to "make the news". |
 Legion 4 | 23 Nov 2020 10:00 a.m. PST |
That is true so you have to be very careful plus I didn't see a ground guide anywhere … How do you say DOH in Israeli ?  |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Nov 2020 10:20 a.m. PST |
You don't Legion4. You say it in Hebrew. |
| Choctaw | 23 Nov 2020 11:18 a.m. PST |
My day isn't so bad after all. |
| Sundance | 23 Nov 2020 12:41 p.m. PST |
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| Stryderg | 23 Nov 2020 1:23 p.m. PST |
How do you turn a 70 ton tank upright? With one of these: link |
| Legion 4 | 23 Nov 2020 4:20 p.m. PST |
You don't Legion4. You say it in Hebrew. Point taken ! So how do you say "DOH!" in Hebrew ? How do you turn a 70 ton tank upright? Yep with an M88. I've see them in "action". They are monsters. Can tow 3 60 MBTs in a daisy chain. I've seen them pick up an M113 fairly easily. That had flippered on it's side. Each Mech Bn had 2 and each Tank Bn had 6 or 8 IIRC …  |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Nov 2020 5:30 p.m. PST |
Google Translate says "doh!" translates to דו but has no audio. Can anyone help us out here? However, the Yiddish is דאָה or "doh!" Perhaps we can settle. |
| von Schwartz | 23 Nov 2020 6:26 p.m. PST |
Don't know the Hebrew but in Yiddish it translates roughly to, "Oy vey".
Eat something, it will make you feel better! |
| 45thdiv | 24 Nov 2020 4:56 a.m. PST |
Was the driver injured? I don't see anyone interested in opening the back hatch to check. |
| Stryderg | 24 Nov 2020 6:48 a.m. PST |
They were probably waiting for the treads to stop turning. Hopefully the driver was buckled in. |
| Shagnasty | 24 Nov 2020 11:54 a.m. PST |
Thank you Stryderg. That beast was a revelation. |
| Legion 4 | 24 Nov 2020 4:35 p.m. PST |
Thank you for your input Robert and von Schwartz !  They were probably waiting for the treads to stop turning. Hopefully the driver was buckled in. Yes the tracks would have to stop and the tank stop moving/settle. And yes hopefully the driver was buckled in. Sadly more than once M113s in the Mech Hvy Bde, I served in, had APCs flip over and the driver and/or TC lost their lives. |
| robert piepenbrink | 24 Nov 2020 4:48 p.m. PST |
Sadly more than once M113s in the Mech Hvy Bde, I served in, had APCs flip over and the driver and/or TC lost their lives. Ground guides, too. Walking backward with all that metal coming toward you turned out to be a bad idea, and not all of us were otherwise trained in time. |
| von Schwartz | 24 Nov 2020 5:51 p.m. PST |
What is venting so violently off to the side? |
| Legion 4 | 25 Nov 2020 9:23 a.m. PST |
Ground guides, too. Very Important, we always had one of the crew dismount when entering a rear area like a assembly area, etc. And when loading on a rail car etc. you had to be careful as well. Easy to fall off or worse. fortunately never saw that happen. What is venting so violently off to the side? Probably some liquid in the vehicle hitting the hot engine, etc. Many of those fluids/liquids like oil, transmission, hydraulic, etc. can be very flammable … |
