Category Archives: armor
Army Leaders Defend Plan to Shutdown M1 Tank Production | Military.com
Army Leaders Defend Plan to Shutdown M1 Tank Production | Military.com. The Army’s top two leaders defended the service’s strategy to cut spending before lawmakers on Capitol Hill today, including a plan to shutdown M1 tank production. Members of the … Continue reading
DIVADS
You may have noticed we’re generally a fan of evolutionary versus revolutionary development of weapons. The M247 SGT York Divisional Air Defense System or DIVADS should have been a prime example of this evolutionary approach, but was instead a poster … Continue reading
Ig Nobel Peace Prize
Roamy here. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a spoof of the real Nobel Prizes, meant to pique interest in the sciences as well as make you laugh. It’s held every year at Harvard with real Nobel Prize winners sharing in … Continue reading
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GPS
Esli writes: Out of extreme boredom, I recently read through some of XBrad’s archived material. (Yeah, I know.) This post , combined with this one got me thinking about my own early experiences with the GPS. We have all wondered … Continue reading
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M42 Duster… Walk around
Brad never asks… he should at least send out an RFI to support his posts. He should know by now that Craig’s archives are full of AFV and cannon pictures. But don’t forget the “forebears” of the M42. The … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to… the Tank!
The History Channel’s “Today in History” page notes that September 6 is the birthday of the tank: On this day in 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from … Continue reading
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Another Cold War Flashback: T-55
I promise… this is the last video from this year’s open house at the American Wartime Museum. I think this is a T-55AM2 turning laps on the demo field. But I must admit my armored vehicle recognition has slacked over … Continue reading
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BMP-1 Running Laps, Clearing Mines
Another video from the American Wartime Museum open house last month. A BMP-1, dressed out in late Cold-War colors. Gotta like the simulated “react to mine” drill. The political officer stated this was only a drill and that had this … Continue reading
Ivan Could Swim!
A Craig tank posting again. Here’s another video from the American Wartime Museum open house: Many will jump to compare the PT-76 to the M551 Sheridan. But the Russian tank had been around some 15 years before the American tank … Continue reading
Glory to the heroes of the Patriotic War!
Another video from the American Wartime Museum open house. This time a Ruskie! The T-34/85 was perhaps top on the list of medium tanks during World War II. With a diesel engine and 85mm gun, the T34/85 compared well against … Continue reading
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M41 Walker Bulldog
Craig here. I’ve posted the first video from this weekend’s open house at the American Wartime Museum on YouTube. It is a M41 Walker Bulldog running around the demo track: Gotta love the cigar smoke puff from the TC. More … Continue reading
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Going great guns…
Another repost since I’m too lazy to write anything this morning. Welcome Reddit readers. Part Two is HERE, and Part Three is HERE. For an army that has used machine guns for a hundred years or so, we have … Continue reading
Filed under Afghanistan, armor, army, ARMY TRAINING, Around the web, infantry, iraq
Humvee With Chimney for Safety Draws Military’s Interest – NYTimes.com
An innovative chimney to vent blasts from buried bombs could make the Humvee safer and bring the most popular military vehicle since the Jeep back from the sidelines in Afghanistan. The Humvee fell out of favor in Iraq and Afghanistan … Continue reading
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Tank Battles
I’m feeling poorly today, so here a “best of..” post from way back in the very early days of the blog. I wrote earlier about bringing enough gun to the fight, but not too much. A prime example of this … Continue reading
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American Wartime Museum Open House 2011
Craig here. I ran this post on my blog earlier today, but figure the audience over here would better appreciate the smell of diesel exhaust and clanking of treads: The American Wartime Museum holds it’s annual Open House event on … Continue reading
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What’s Old is New Again
For almost a decade, the Army has been focused on low intensity conflict (a very relative term!) in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, there’s no such thing as low intensity to the guy in a firefight, but the fact remains that … Continue reading
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Uniformly Stupid? Part 2
See Part 1 here. I’m on the road, so I’ll be doing some “best of” posts. Right now, this is the most searched for post. While most people in the Army spend just about all their time in a working … Continue reading
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Army Acquisition Woes
From the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, the focus of the Army’s major acquisition program was on rebuilding the post-Vietnam force to face the challenges of the Soviet threat to Western Europe. In those days of extremely tight budgets, … Continue reading
Vehicle BDAR
Battle Damage Assessment and Repair. When I opened youtube last night, it recommended these two videos to me. Vehicle Graveyard Tank graveyard In the first video, most of the vehicles are obviously total losses, and almost certainly a fair number … Continue reading
Cavalry Spurs
XBrad here. This post generated some interest in the Cavalry and its traditions. We’ve got another guest post by Esli addressing that topic. Esli is an active duty career Armor officer with tours as an enlisted infantryman and a commissioned … Continue reading
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
I’m having lunch: Oh, and a special shout-out to my favorite niece. It’s her birthday! And welcome, Cornerites! Please take a moment to check out the rest of the blog.
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More on the TOW missile
So, this post showing some excellent ‘splodey was pretty popular. And TOW missile video posts have long been a mainstay here. But it wasn’t until I started looking in the comments that I realized I have never actually done a … Continue reading
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More Armored Recon – The Lynx, Offspring of the M113
Another contender armored recon category in the 1960s, a variant of the M113 offered by FMC, Corp., rolled out in 1966. The FMC offering, called M113 ½, appeared for all purposes a shrunken version of the Armored Personnel Carrier (APC). … Continue reading
Armored Recon – Wrong Turn with the ACRC
In the earlier post, I noted the 1950s requirement for the Armored Command and Recon Carrier (ACRC). To meet the ACRC requirement, Chrysler offered an armored car while General Motors’ Cadillac Division proposed a small tracked vehicle. The Army’s long … Continue reading
Armored Recon – The US Army Way
XBrad provided an excellent overview of the problems with employing armored vehicles in airborne operations. And we’ve mentioned several Cold War vehicles designed to address the challenges of balancing protection, mobility, and firepower – the M56 Scorpion, the M50 Ontos, … Continue reading
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