Tanks, New and Old, post your favorite and discuss

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

 

[daddyusmaximus]

No tanks don't have M60s, I borrowed it off a scout so I could look cool for the photo...

 

[Indyhd]

Great pics Daddyusmaximus

 

[bcannon]

The M109A7 Paladin, 155mm of stop that or its gunna hurt.

The older tanks and even the Abrams are bada$$ but the Paladin is my favorite.

Nice pics DDmax

 

[indyartisan]

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Tiger oil on canvas board.

 

[Route 45]

Just because I know Ft Sill has a pretty nice display I'll guess there although they would have had to move it since I was there as it was originally in a more tree'ed part of the base. It does look like Mt Scott in the left background of the AA unit though.

Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

 

[BGDave]

M4A3E8 Sherman at the Scottsburg N.G. Armory.

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Think this is it's cousin. Random VFW in Lawrence IN. Ignore the hobo that wandered in.

 

[BGDave]

It's an M60. The give away is the flat glacis plate on the hull. The M48 had a rounded glacis. 105mm gun and a tight fire control system in my experience. The turret is basically an M48A5 on the new M60 chassis. The redesigned armor was created to help defeat advancing armor piercing rounds.

Thanks for ID on that tank. All this time I thought this was a M48. Freeman Field Seymour IN. Didn't realize how often I take pictures of tanks.

 

[Thor]

Thanks for ID on that tank. All this time I thought this was a M48. Freeman Field Seymour IN. Didn't realize how often I take pictures of tanks.

You're welcome. And that's an M60A3. The A1 had the same turret minus the grenade launcher plates on the side of the turret. You can see that it is the same hull as the M60 though. The A1-3 had greater ammo storage in the turret than the M60 or M48A5. The A3 had better fire computers and turret stabilization. I like that the M60A1-3 have the same profile as a King Tiger.

 

[smokingman]

This thread takes me back to when I was a kid. My dad and I built quite a few WW2 dioramas. I put lots of tank models together.

 

[Nickbau5]

I have been to the Indiana Military Museum a few years ago. I really enjoyed it.

You need to go back now, they have expanded the show pieces a lot and finished the USS Indianapolis exhibit and now have a whole 2nd building full of vehicles, like a WW1 french ambulance, one of the only 12 surviving Higgins boats, an M109 Paladin self propelled howitzer, and much more. If this whole disease thing is over by Labor Day in September, that's when they have their WW2 reenactments where they break out the Sherman and Stuart.

 

[Nickbau5]

The Stuart has PLA markings, so that's a bit odd

If I remember correctly, during WW2, America sent a lot of Stuarts to China to try and fight Japanese invasions.

 

[cobber]

If I remember correctly, during WW2, America sent a lot of Stuarts to China to try and fight Japanese invasions.

I don't think we supplied arms directly to the Communists, but rather to Chiang Kai Shek and the Nationalists, so I'm assuming this was liberated from the KMT, or the UN in Korea?

The museum used to have a section on the Korean war with allegations about US germ warfare. Those captions were in English in Chinese. That was in 2006. When I went back in 2009 the entire floor had been converted into an exhibit on the contemporary People's Liberation Army, essentially a recruiting/PR tool. Nothing about US-China conflict at all.



Patches taken from US troops in Korea, including Indiana's 38th Division.

Some more vehicles from the museum, not covered in dust. I don't think the Kaytusha was a "mine layer" though: