Comments on: Strange tank-related events of the week

By: PeanutFly

PeanutFly — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:20:17 +0000

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By: Rx

Rx — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:24:33 +0000

A guy named Shawn Nelson stole an M60. He drove around for a while with police in (slow-paced) pursuit, destroying some cars and other map objects. Then he got stuck on a highway median (the center part) and they just climbed on top and shot him. Youtube likely has videos of this incident.
So presumably the cops would just try to evacuate everyone from your way, then wait for the armed forces to arrive or you to get stuck or run out of gas.

By: CaptainSerious

CaptainSerious — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:18:03 +0000

Busted.

By: RellHaiser

RellHaiser — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:50:15 +0000

T-55s (and T-62s) have a combat record of Centurions wiping the desert floor with them.

By: turarwanaa

turarwanaa — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:43:10 +0000

Aw dat Matilda yes :)

By: PrivateAli

PrivateAli — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:37:41 +0000

I know double post but just to give a little idea what the T-55M6 looks like:

http://media.desura.com/images/groups/1/3/2074/T-55M6.jpg

Would you identify THAT as a T-55 from over 1km away? I highly doubt you would.

By: PrivateAli

PrivateAli — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:35:15 +0000

WHAT? Do you even know what the T-54 and the T-55 caused in the western countries? Do you have any idea what the T-54A that was driven on the area of the british embassy in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 caused?

105mm Royal Ordnance L7 is all I’m saying.

And even today, the modern versions of the T-55 can be quite a threat to modern military vehicles if used correctly. T-55M6, probably you never heard of it, otherwise you wouldn’t post such an unqualified post.

T-55M6, main armament 125mm 2A46M (the gun used on the T-72B), protection level increased to T-80U level (And that is one helluva tough nut to crack), it’s able to fire either ‘
9K120 ‘Svir’ AT-Missiles (as the T-72B) or 9K119 ‘Refleks’ AT-Missiles (as the T-80U).
It’s combat weight is 43 tons powered by a 690hp engine.

In my opinion this thing is quite well capable of fighting the M1A1 Abrams, the Leopard 2A5 and the Challenger 1.

And that is a tank first built in 1946.

By: PrivateAli

PrivateAli — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:20:55 +0000

If I remember right I’ve once saw a website selling old, obsolete T-55s for around 60k-70k €. You could also buy a SU-100 (~110k €) and T-34s there. Made me lol a lot, especially when they wrote ‘If you’re living in Germany the gun has to be replaced by a dummy, we can do that for you for a little increase in price’ (i think about 5k € more for the fake-armament).

Would surely be cool as hell driving around in a T-55 in urban areas – I call the damages to the parking cars on the side of the road collateral damage.

And even if the police shows up – how are they going to stop me? I’m driving a fuckin 40ton battering ram. The only thing that can stop me is the damn army!

By: The_Builder

The_Builder — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:02:31 +0000

And thats how ground pressure works.

Too much weight on too little surface (such as a tank on wheels) and the ground under you will collapse.

By: EcchiRevenge

EcchiRevenge — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:51:28 +0000

Where do you get all your “combat record”