New tank round.

[Maggot]

Armor crews fire new barricade-busting tank round - Army Times​

https://www.armytimes.com › your-army › 2021/12/03



14 hours ago — Soldiers with two tank crews from the 3rd Armored Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, recently tested the Army's newest 120mm tactical round.

 

[Doc68]

Iron horse!!! Or gtfo old steadfast and loyal

Fucking good old ironhorse.....their gym sucked anyways. The only redeeming factor was that they have a pool.

I was in 41st Fires BDE when 4ID was at Hood. DIVARTY for them. Then when we got back from iraq in 2009 they went to carson.

4ID turned to shit here at Carson, at least a lot of the leadership that was high up.

Doc

 

[atomic41]

Neat but why redesign munitions when we are getting rid of our tanks?

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

I liked being at Carson for the short time I was there, but that was 50 years ago when Colorado was still pretty much a rural state.

 

[mgrs]

Neat but why redesign munitions when we are getting rid of our tanks?

They aren’t going away.

 

[Doc68]

I liked being at Carson for the short time I was there, but that was 50 years ago when Colorado was still pretty much a rural state.

They actually had to stop building houses here in Fountain where I live due to them not having enough water.

No matter where you go, even out towards Yoder, CO which is the middle of nowhere is being built up now. It's sad for sure.

Doc

 

[Doc68]

Neat but why redesign munitions when we are getting rid of our tanks?

They are NOT going away. They just came out with a new variant of the M1 Abrams that apparently has a system on it that can shoot down RPGs and other HEAT rounds.

Doc

 

[atomic41]

They are NOT going away. They just came out with a new variant of the M1 Abrams that apparently has a system on it that can shoot down RPGs and other HEAT rounds.

Doc

So it's just Marines?

Goodbye, tanks: How the Marine Corps will change, and what it will lose, by ditching its armor

Commandant Gen. David H. Berger has said that should armor be needed by Marines, he would look to the Army to provide that capability.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

 

[Bigfatcock]

So it's just Marines?

Goodbye, tanks: How the Marine Corps will change, and what it will lose, by ditching its armor

Commandant Gen. David H. Berger has said that should armor be needed by Marines, he would look to the Army to provide that capability.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

Correct. Guess they weren’t expeditionary enough, even though the Marine Corps has used them since pretty much their invention.

 

[Doc68]

So it's just Marines?

Goodbye, tanks: How the Marine Corps will change, and what it will lose, by ditching its armor

Commandant Gen. David H. Berger has said that should armor be needed by Marines, he would look to the Army to provide that capability.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

Yeah from what I’ve heard and read.


Army needs their tanks. They are transitioning units to Heavy BCTs once again and phasing out all of the MRAP type vehicles.

Doc

 

[akmike47]

You gonna keep that brass?

 

[Huskydriver]

You gonna keep that brass?

There is no brass, just the butt cap. The entire round forward of the cap is burnt up as propellent or is part of the projectile

 

[akmike47]

There is no brass, just the butt cap. The entire round forward of the cap is burnt up as propellent or is part of the projectile

You gonna pick up that butt cap?

 

[Huskydriver]

You gonna pick up that butt cap?

I mean technically tankers don't pick it up either....it gets ejected into a catch can.... Just sayin

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Curious:
What is the cost and time frame to get the first round of a 120mm tactical round off in a war zone ...... ?

Build the tank, build the 120mm round, training of the crew and support personal, testing period, deployment, etc...

Agreed there are a lot of unknowns to the equation.......

 

[Jim Out]

Curious:
What is the cost and time frame to get the first round of a 120mm tactical round off in a war zone ...... ?

This video is 2016



and why the hell can't anyone learn to take cellphone video the right way?

"widescreen" not "tall skinny screen"

 

[Maggot]

This video is 2016



and why the hell can't anyone learn to take cellphone video the right way?

"widescreen" not "tall skinny screen"

So much for jumping behind the door. That would wreck the fuck out of your day.

 

[EddieNFL]

Curious:
What is the cost and time frame to get the first round of a 120mm tactical round off in a war zone ...... ?

Build the tank, build the 120mm round, training of the crew and support personal, testing period, deployment, etc...

Agreed there are a lot of unknowns to the equation.......

I had a tech that did six in the Corp as a tank mechanic. He had schools that would have cost us mega bucks to attend.