Didn't see one so...
Tank Thread
Levi Howard
Elijah Rogers
pic related is not a tank
Jack Johnson
>Tfw the USA has no massive reserve of Cold War tanks and IFVs waiting in storage bunkers to be pulled out when WW3 kicks off
I mean i guess its stupid to do that when you could just have 8000 Abrams and a massive air force but still think it would be have been a good idea to keep M60s in strategic storage in case we find ourselves without a paddle up shit creek.
Jonathan Jackson
Jagdpanther is my favorite tank.
Kayden Collins
M60s get my dick hard.
Angel Smith
it isn't?
Jordan Cruz
It's a TD
Kayden Sanchez
dont listen to that fag. thats a tank.
Justin Russell
they probably didn't want them available if they get captured during civil unrest
Michael Anderson
REFORGER
Parker Hernandez
>M24 Chaffee
>Tank Destroyer
It's a light tank you mong.
Aaron Green
Well it's Light Tank, M24 technically.
Tyler Johnson
as opposed to the 12,000 Abrams we have? Im sure the army would rather autists have M60s than M1A2s
Brody Peterson
Austin Bennett
>where the fuck are we?
Noah Anderson
what are some of k's favovite tank sites?
David Hall
Here to contribute from a fuckhuge collection of armor oddities, rarities, and just plain old Jow Forumsino armor. Requests (type, era, nationality, etc.) welcome. Until then, have you some charts.
Jordan Thompson
Luis Scott
Ethan Parker
Eli King
Jaxson Evans
Jose Allen
Blake Hall
Ryder Gomez
Thomas Parker
Xavier Martin
Jonathan Martin
Asher Rogers
Jose Hernandez
Nathan Wood
Please tell me there's at least someone lurking to witness this epic get.
Jonathan Gray
>the USA has no massive reserve of Cold War tanks
They have a massive reserve of Abrams. Far more than the army needs. And are constantly upgrading this fleet as busy work for the one tank factory. We can sustain large attrition and still have more tanks to send over.
Brayden Rivera
Ayden Martinez
Lincoln Roberts
Pretty much this. First off, the Abrams is a cold war tank. That's not to demean it's capability; it's simply a fact. After years up upgrades you could argue a "grandfather's ax" sort of scenario, but at its core the Abrams, right up to the M1A2C, is a product of the 1970s and 80s.
More importantly, the US has no real need to maintain a vast fleet of tanks that we will (probably) never use. We have more than enough armor to deal with any realistic threat we could possibly face. Even if we needed more, maintaining fields of outdated armor is impractical. If you're in a sitatuation where you're going back to upgraded M60s because you've lost all your Abrams, it probably also means you've lost all your skilled crews, and now you're really desperate. This is generally sometime AFTER the point at which someone would say "fuck it, send the nukes", so tank combat becomes pretty pointless since we'll all be dead. In a more practical sense, it's just not smart to have a lot of tanks sitting around. We see numbers from Russia about their vast tank reserves, but often fail to recognize that a lot of those tanks are either rusted out hulks, or would require extensive refitting to be deemed combat ready for even a Russian tank crew. This isn't to say it couldn't be done; it's simply a matter of these number representing tanks that don't really pose an immediate threat.
Wyatt Diaz
Levi Gray
Not to mention the fact that as soon as things pop off for real you better believe the data, tooling, and manufacturing packages for our AFVs are going to be given to any automotive manufacturer that wants to make a quick buck or two off of the happening.
Dylan Anderson
I don't know that it would be wholly the case. Unlike what we saw in WWII, modern tanks require a lot more than just casting and welding facilities to manufacture. If domestic auto manufacturers were tasked with producing tanks, you'd have to deal with either handing over highly classified information to these companies, producing and installing those classified components yourself, or omitting them entirely. Given that these systems are pretty important to a modern tanks combat effectiveness, I doubt the latter would be an option.
Fair enough, the M4 (just as an example) had a fair number of features we certainly didn't want our enemies knowing about. Also fair enough, there's quite a good chance that an enemy would be able to capture somewhat intact tanks in a proper shooting war. Still, shipping depleted uranium plates to a car factory somewhere seems like it could cause a lot of problems.
Brayden Jenkins
>Abrams
>Not a Cold War tank
Grayson Anderson
Said companies wouldn't need to manufacture every part of the tanks. If they only retooled to produce engines or tracks or anything like that it would already reduce the logistical strain on the companies that can be trusted or have the capacity to produce the more classified or hard to produce elements.
The bigger question is if there's a possibility for a war where such a thing would need to happen without nuclear weapons cutting the war short in one way or the other.
Luis Harris
Dylan Reyes
Parker Butler
Luke Carter
Austin Rodriguez
Blake Phillips
Carson Jackson
Every Abrams needs to leave the factory looking like this
Josiah Morgan
Thank you kind sir. Have a good weekend.
Brandon Richardson
>The US doesn't have a giant stockpile of abrams
but they do....
Brody Martin
The SEP v3, the latest ayybraps, is factory finished in NATO 3-tone which is even better.
Caleb Ortiz
Meant to post this one, where they're finished.
Brayden Russell
Nathaniel Cook
Kevin Gonzalez
What do you think it'd feel like to straddle a tank gun as it fired
Daniel Morales
Gabriel Robinson
like violently snapping your neck
Ian Powell
Ian Young
If we're posting nigger-rigged conversions...
Hudson Walker
Joseph Moore
Asher Turner
Anthony Hernandez
Angel Brown
John Myers
Tyler Cooper
As another user pointed put theres already a fuck ton of abrams sitting around so it is uneeded.
In addition stocking the m60s means also stocking there spare parts and there individual ammunition suppies as the m60s all use the 105mm instead of the abrams 120mm, and abrams equipped with the 105 could easily be converted to a 120 where such luxury is not afforded to the m60.
So they practically speaking dont need them in a mothball scenario
Blake Ward
Kayden Lopez
Finally back to green
Hunter King
Joshua Thomas
Nah, the real anti civil unrest measure is keeping the fuel hungry high tech maintenance turbines in place. Instead of fuel efficient and, now, performance equal diesel engines that could be supported by a lower tech industrial sourcing and far more people
Oliver King
>performance equal
Charles Richardson
Nah, it'd be more cost effective to just build another tank plant, bring back everybody alive who built Abrams, overstaff Lima as a college of sorts, and also build a 3rd spare plant that focuses on rebuilds on existing hulls. Bringing old stuff back online at the same time new hulls are constructed. The real bottlenecks will be the electronic components, because literally everything else can be easily mass produced, and whatever can't be is the things that HAVE to be assembled on site.
The real thing that whatever autoplants we have left would be involved in is APC/IFV mass production. Much lower weight so most could function on assembly lines, and wheel based power and transmissions.
Abrams production and upgrades would take a while to get up and rolling, but the immediate Stryker replacements and replacements/upgrades for everything else involved in moving troops and stuff around? That production will explode.
Owen Wilson
>Sheridilka
Was that a thing?
Austin Brooks
I like this tank
Angel Rivera
Czeched
Zachary Collins
its not a tank tho