Be thankful we don't ride ours in like this:
Posted on 05/13/2017 4:44:25 PM PDT by Chode
NATO tanks have put on a show of their strength during a competing exercise in Germany, testing offensive and defensive operations to see who can prevail.
Austria took first place in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge 2017 as six nations and partner nations battled it out in Grafenwoehr, beating France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the USA in the exercise.
The second annual challenge, which was won by Germany last year, tested soldiers on vehicle identification, battle damage assessment and precision manoeuvres.
According to Stars and Stripes, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the commander of U.S. Army Europe, said the challenge was designed to foster both a competitive and cooperative spirit among the tankers. After trying their best during the day to outperform their competitors, each night they exchanged professional knowledge, he said.
The partnership event took place over five days at Grafenwoehr's military training ground in Germany.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin's troops have been practising dropping armoured tanks into the battlefield by parachute.
A BMD-4M amphibious infantry fighting vehicle strapped to parachutes was dropped from the back of an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane at an altitude of 800m, during trials at Dyagilevo Air Base, Ryazan Region.
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Thanks for posting. Amazing.
Be thankful we don't ride ours in like this:
I have the graphic but I lost the Treadhead ping list.
maybe Darks has it
and with twice as many tracks...
Or just send a Cav platoon.
Ha! Thanks
Ha! Thud!!
If you’ve lost command of the air!
If we have command of the air we don’t need tanks , if we don’t have command of the air we can’t use tanks.
LAPES?
There’s a version of the ping list here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~snippyaboutit/
Don’t know how old it is.
I don’t know what it’s called, but I wouldn’t want to be inside that vehicle, if that was the way they kept the crew and tank together.
The invasion is coming from the Middle East, not Russia.
It’s my recollection/understanding that the tank was dropped “unoccupied”.
Somewhere in some thread I got the idea that the Russians parachuted some of their vehicles with crews inside. I know that they had experimented with it before but had too many cases of “strawberry jam” and gave up.
>If we have command of the air we don’t need tanks , if we don’t have command of the air we can’t use tanks.
Small tank killing drones are going to change everything. I hope we’re building some.
>The invasion is coming from the Middle East, not Russia.
The invasion is already here, it’s the Communists that run the media, the federal bureaucracy and Hollywood.
The Russian VDV airborne routinely drop the crews inside their BMD full-tracked personnel carriers, essentially a light tank, and some of their full-tracked AT guns. They've been doing it long enough that most of the time it works, and they use multiple chutes- as many as a dozen- so that the failure of a single *rag* doesn't result in a bad day at the office. Usually.
When we experimented with similar airborne ops with the M551 Sheridan in Germany in the 1960s, a result of some staff officer finding out the Russians air-dropped their AFVs with the crews inside, we just HAD to try an Airborne Test Delivery team. A flock of sort-of volunteer tankers went through the West German jump school at Altenstadt, and proceeded to work their way up to manned-inside the vehicle drops. Which came to a halt after one [unmanned] Sheridan plowed in nose-down and another landed on its side, smashing the tracks and breaking all the suspension torsion bars. After that the crews jumped separately from the aircraft that were carrying the vehicles, the idea for personnel to land on a DZ on one side of a road and the vehicles on the other, not quite as fast as the Russian way but a little safer. Until one crew running for their track had a late-dropped Sheridan land on them, with two killed. LAPES turned out to be a better idea, and safer. Usually.
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