M1 Abrams tank #2 - for tallpindo by goodoleboy
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Tanks a million, a million tanks to you...or so the song goes.
Captured 10/30/06 at the Los Alamitos Auto/Copter Expo Show held annually at the beautiful Armed Forces Reserve Center in beautiful Los Alamitos, California.
I'm dedicating this to tallpindo because he's really into this stuff.
Mea culpa, folks...I promised a picture of the tail end looking forward of this darling of desert warfare, but because of the constricted fenced-off enclosure, I found to my dismay while poring over the photos that this is about as close to showing that end as I could shoot. I suppose I had forgotten that vital detail. (Aha, you're thinking, senility rears its ugly head.)
Anyway, it was so tight back behind the tank that I wouldn't have gotten a good overall shot anyway. Sorry about that. But at least you have a decent 3/4 POV of the big guy.
For explicit detailed information on this beauty, please refer to my M1 Abrams tank #1.
Tanks a million for dropping by, and have a neato day!
Comments (10)
jocko500
this is a good shot of the tank and very good pov
auntietk
Wow - that looks huge! If I estimate your height and assume you're standing on the ground . . . pretty impressive!
BibbyBear
Well at least I get to see some of the rear end from this POV and a mighty big one it looks too!! Great capture Harry. Hugs. xx
MrsLubner
This thing looks mammoth! Fantastic shot and your pov really shows how large this is.
Dianthus
Great capture and you got a new avator:)
Valerie-Ducom
wowww, it's a POV :))) Very nice picture and dedi :)
tallpindo
At some point they give them to enlisted men to drive and shoot with. Sometimes stories get mixed later. Tanks are supposed to be able to go backwards with the gun turned aroundn as well as forward. They operate as flankers though modern mechanized warfare fills them in with APC's to avoid sappers jumping on them and blowing them up. Someone may have thought it was self-propelled artillery with that big gun and thus "no reverse." The big hole made by the turbine exhaust is at the other rear. Now I see some Abrams are being reengined with a German MTU diesel. I could not find easily if it has variable compression ratio (VCR) like the Continental proposal my ex-roomate worked for at Continental.
Hendesse
Fantastic POV and details. Excellent shot!
Biffowitz
Nice shot ol boy!!
babuci
Another great view of this huge powerfull machine. Good stuff Harry!