To: drypowder
A 'male body' causes a tank tread to loose a track, sorry, but, that's really not within the believable realm of possibilities ... unless that body was Superman ...
18 posted on
11/28/2003 4:54:42 PM PST by
_Jim
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To: _Jim
I appreciate your skepticism and I agree, it sounds impossible. It's been a couple of years since I've seen the movie "Rules of Engagement" but that scene of a tank going through a wall and then backing out with a body caught up in the track was particularly horrid. Have you seen the movie?
To: _Jim
A 'male body' causes a tank tread to loose a track, sorry, but, that's really not within the believable realm of possibilities ... unless that body was Superman ... You would be surprised how easily a track can be "thrown". I was almost killed by a CEV that crashed through a "sea of wire" ... anything that gets caught in the rear spocket can cause you to lose a track. I have not seen the film that they they are talking about but throwing a track is really easy .... superman needed no .... only a 2 x 4 or maybe a bone.
56 posted on
11/28/2003 6:13:24 PM PST by
Yasotay
To: _Jim
A 'male body' causes a tank tread to loose a track, sorry, but, that's really not within the believable realm of possibilities ... unless that body was Superman ... I seriously doubt that that's so. A human body is perfectly capabable of causing a mis-mesh between a tread and a wheel, causing a derailment of the tread, in probably less than two full traverses of the tread. Human bones are not made of chicken fluff and derailment does not require a pile-driver's worth of force, just a properly angled wedge, or jam, to prevent a sproket from finding its link.
72 posted on
11/28/2003 7:02:54 PM PST by
donh
To: _Jim
Tanks have tossed treads for less Jim boy.
Have you ever served in the military?
I have, and you'd be surprised by the stupid things that will make a tank tread come off.
95 posted on
11/29/2003 6:31:08 AM PST by
Darksheare
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