Pardon the intrusion devil dogs. I am a poolee and ship 20080609. I am enlisted with a combat support contract with a good chance of getting 1812(put signature by tanks and sent it in to MEPs, recruiter says that will increase my chances),just as I want. Ok, so we all know what an IED can do to a humvee, but what about a tank? Anyone ever been involved or seen an IED hit a tank? What were the effects? Are M1A1's armored enough to withstand IED attacks? This is not effecting my decision at all, just curious.
An IED is not measurable in terms of standard munitions, therefore we cannot say what the effects could or would be. Normally, there isn't a ton of damage done to tanks. However, if you are unlucky enough to find yourself above a 155 or triple-stacked AT mines, you could be quite unhappy. Go to liveleak and look up that stuff; those videos are plentiful there.
BTW, I haven't been to Iraq, this is all just my perception.
Motor T gets a stupid amount of classes when it comes to IED's. Last class I was sitting through had a slide show of some IED attacks. Most were of course of my trucks (humvees and 7 tons) but they did have some photos of an IED that literally blew the turret off an abrams and flipped the tank. I do not know the ordinance size that the IED was built off of, but my squad was all pretty taken back.
These were photos from a few years back and are available on the internet now. Do some looking around and you should be able to find them.
Originally posted by king_voodoo: Thanks, but I'm not going out of my way to find pictures of dead tanks.
I miscommunicated voodoo. I was referring my comment to the poolee, I wouldnt think you would want to see them. I saw the pictures once and have no desire to see them again.
Originally posted by RedWhiteandTrue: Motor T gets a stupid amount of classes when it comes to IED's. Last class I was sitting through had a slide show of some IED attacks. Most were of course of my trucks (humvees and 7 tons) but they did have some photos of an IED that literally blew the turret off an abrams and flipped the tank. I do not know the ordinance size that the IED was built off of, but my squad was all pretty taken back.
These were photos from a few years back and are available on the internet now. Do some looking around and you should be able to find them.
I've seen those pics. 5 155mm shells buried in the road. I guess that crew had been using the same route at the same time everyday. It was only a matter of time before they got hit. I don't think there is much that would have survived that.
There is not a military vehicle in the world right now to my knowledge that can sustain EFP's so it's pretty pointless to worry about whether or not such and such a vehicle will survive such and such an IED.
A tank from a supporting unit ran over an AT mine while I was over there. It just blew off a tread and rattled the crew a bit. The rumour was it actually lifted the tank a couple feet off the ground though.
