| Posted by Anto on April 17, 2013 | |
No canon fixed during the shipment ... I like those things
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| Posted by Bob Pittenger on April 17, 2013 | |
I love the military loads. That does not appear to be an M1 tank. It appears to be some kind of specialized vehicle on an M1 Chassis. The commanders coupola is clearly not in the position for an M1 tank. Does anyone know what this really is?
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| Posted by timnatnix99 on April 17, 2013 | |
Pretty sure that it's a pair of M1 Assault Breacher Vehicles
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| Posted by Bryan Bowen on April 17, 2013 | |
These are M1 Assault Breacher Vehicles (ABV) from the fertile genius of the US Marine Corps. Built on the M1 chassis, the ABV is designed to fire a mine clearing line charge across a mine field to clear a path for advancing Marines. The rear deck of the turret opens upward for the system to aim and fire downrange.
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| Posted by Mark R. Lynn on April 17, 2013 | |
These are M1 ABV's. Assault Breacher Vehicles or Shredders. They get a big plow apparatus attached to the front for mine detonation. The pods on top of the turret contain M58 MICLICs (Mine Clearing Line Charges) to safely detonate IEDS and open paths through minefields from a safe distance. They have no main cannon. Armament is the .50 cal you see on the turret. Quite rare actually. Less than 100 are known to have been produced.
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| Posted by Mattias WP on April 17, 2013 | |
It looks like a M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle.
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| Posted by Bundesbahn on April 17, 2013 | |
@Bob: Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) - designed for conducting in stride breaching of minefields etc. Front gear is not mounted during transport. The ABV is built on the M1A1 chassis with minor modifications.
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| Posted by John Roth on April 17, 2013 | |
Looks to be an M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle.
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| Posted by Harry Gaydosz on April 17, 2013 | |
That's a M-1 Breacher. It's basically a land minesweeper.
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| Posted by Joshua Atkins on April 17, 2013 | |
It could be any body's guess...It is built on the standard M-1 tank chassis but the lack of a cannon mantlet (replaced with what appears to be a block of reactive armor) as well as the lack of a proper turret (replaced with what might be storage bays or even a launch mechanism for a Mine Clearing Line Charge [MCLC]) and lastly the mounting hardware on the front for what might be a mine roller or dozer blade lead me to speculate that its the next generation of breach or engineer vehicle. Only speculation of course and its too bad its not traditionally armed, other wise it truly would be a "rail gun." Great capture!
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| Posted by Chuggalugg45 on April 18, 2013 | |
This is a "tank car" and now the DOT is looking for more Flat cars to purchase since they are falling apart according the FRA. Cool to see the Military still using trains to move stuff!
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