Unidentified tank - with variations by goodoleboy
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Captured back on 10/24/2010, at the beautiful Los Alamitos Army Field in beautiful Los Alamitos, California. Original on top, just for the record.
I thought at first that this might be a M1 Abrams, but after some research I came up with nothing explicit, so I'll let the military experts out there come up with the answer.
Comments (10)
MagikUnicorn
racolt33
Love the variations on these photos. Especially the last image " ominous " upgrade with your creativity !
Greywolf44
This is a Paladin M109 Mobile Howitzer with a 155mm gun. It is not really considered a battle tank. Most modern battle tanks have 105mm or 120mm guns. This puppy uses it's 155 to lob artillery shells at much greater distances and stationary targets. As you will notice the tracts are much smaller because they only have to reposition the gun and move from location to location usually on fairly gentle terrain. VERY cool pictures.
T.Rex
Gee, greywolf44 beat me to the punch. Thanks for posting. Never expected to see this here or anywhere else. More fun stuff from your visit? Keep up the good work. :-)
RodS
Another great shot of this beast with a really big gun! Wouldn't wanna be on the receiving end of that..
Cool manipulations, too!
npauling
Excellent capture and great variations, but crikey, I don't think we need two guns on one tank. Great symmetry effect.
starship64
That's an M109 self-propelled gun. Superficially it looks like a tank, but it doesn't have enough armor to fight on the front line. It's intended to stay back and provide long range artillery support. My brother served as a crew member on one of those, many years ago, and at that same base.
anahata.c
wow, you got people here who know their stuff about these tanks. (I could sound erudite and say, "I could've told you that!" But I'd be lying through my teeth...) Fascinating about how this is a stationery tank: I'm not knowledgeable enough to have known that. The original is caught with an unusual angle---the tank on one side, reaching out to the other: Very effective. And, though it's interrupted by people, you caught them in wonderful concord with the tank: They kind of 'line up' with it (on the right of the tank ((our right)) ). And the other group---coagulated on the far right of your image---are bunched together enough to make a good 'accent'. A very fine shot, Harry, with that huge cannon head punching right into our faces.
The 2d variation brings it into ominous territory---were it not for the people, houses, and that cannon cover, we might think this was in actual battle. The 3d feels like a lightened/heightened version of 2: Very effective high key work, sweet play of light with subtle shadows. The 4th is definitely a battle-like postwork, with a Götterdämmerung feeling to it: very impressive high-drama. Makes it scary---which tanks should be. (They're not toys, even though they may seem like it, when sitting still, on display...) And the bottom one: It took me a minute to realize this was a mirror-pic: You split it and made a mirror image! Great effect, esp as it doubles the threat of the thing, and allows those guns to punch into our faces in two places. Terrific way to end this excellent montage. Love what you did with this. (And btw, Harry: Thanks for your background on the word "tank," in my gallery. Your military knowledge and experience dwarfs most people's here, and I greatly appreciate whatever you share of it with the rest of us.)
eekdog
Cool fx on the collage.
helanker
Now tanks is not where my greatest knowledge is placed, but I like the effects you gave this "Puppy" as Greywolf44 called it LOL!