This was my dream when I was in high school, but paths change, and now I am a 57 year old college professor that would dearly love to be inside one of these things.
@@paulthebaker what is a trip is that i heard your age and was thinking- oh you wanted to be on an M60 but then i remembered the Abrams is now 43 years old.
@@F-18Super or just add M829A3 it counters K5 Era would make every other russian top tier tank that uses K5 near useless or A2 i thing a2 could do it to
I remember for my gunnery during the gas mask part I would just cover my mouth when talking into the headset (I was the driver). Thanks for uploading this it brings back a lot of great memories. Best job I ever had !
Finally, a competent loader. These videos usually feature some poor loader clumsily wrestling with the round, trying to flip it around horizontally instead of vertically, which is much quicker and more efficient. He's quick, and that's good. This is also the first video I've seen featuring the 3-man engagement. I used to love that one. The tower would say "At this time, simulate your loader being killed." I would let out a dying yell "OOOOOOoooh!..." There would be a silence from the tower for a few seconds, and then "......Good simulation. At this time, dismount your loader and have him retreat 100 meters to the rear, and prepare for three-man engagement." I never got reprimanded for that. Just lucky, I guess.
6:06-6:10 Gaijin notice how the door is not open for the entire duration of the reload? When I get shot during the reload the ammo rack should only affect the crew for 3-4 seconds max not the entire reload.
Ammo rack shots only kill crew when it penetrates the doors and then kills ammo, so whenever a shot penetrates the front of your turret and proceeds to punch through the 'loader doors' while killing ammo, you will lose your tank. It's intended. You think it only happens during reload because it's most likely when you receive a shot to the front of your turret.
@@mat05usz Did not think of this. Kudos on the idea but I truly did not think Gajin would model that. Thinking back about every time it happened it did penetrate the rear panel. Thank you for adding insight.
It's a latch, hit it down and it opens, releasing the round. When everything around you is made out of steel, you tend to ware gloves a lot and manhandle things to get them to move.
The rounds have a slight spring loaded pressure to them. When you hit the release catch in the manner he did the round pops out. As shown, a good loader can take advantage of this to keep the momentum going to pull the round and get it in the tube in around 4 seconds.
As my grandad once said after his time in WW2, if your in a tank.. your coffin is where you sit. - my grandfather was Anti-tank and amour piecing projectile. Still got his badge to today.
@@jackfletch2001 Both things are terribly loud. The hydraulics pumps and the turbine engine are loud as fuck. I know they got headphones that most certainly deafen it, but holy shit that would still drive me crazy.
@@j.a.3138 what? In top attack mode a javelin would easily penetrate the M1A2’s top armor. Probly wouldn’t be a catastrophic kill like in a T72 but it would likely kill anyone in the way of the shaped charge. Also, tank penetration isn’t cumulative unless you hit the same exact spot, so I don’t know where the 3-4 hits you mention is coming from.
The russian / chinese tanks couuld only dream of such interior and ammo blowout compartment / doors lmao. Not to speak of the air conditioning, which albeit Ive never entered an Abrams, would BET that its mutifold better than any russian or chinese ones. And finally - the engine, the brakes and the overall protection. M1A2 is where its at! Huge respect to the ONLY global superpower - the US - and thanks for the service to all current and former servicemen and women, from your humble NATO-allied eastern european member - Bulgaria
Couldn't have put it better, I remember when the Ukraine war first kicked off every American military video was full of salty Russians (and still is) arguing about how Russian tech was better (lol) and no auto loader was ALWAYS the point they stuck too. Like bro if your T72 even gets breathed on with it's carousel of ammo, you die. Period.
надо было дать туркам вас вырезать. сколько раз мы вас спасали, но вы всегда воевали против нас. надеюсь, в предстоящей войне, нас не заставят спасать пособника НАТО.
This is what 20 years of fighting terrorists gets you. This crew is like a soup sandwich. Whoever is the Master Gunner for this unit, you got your work cut out. - Loader is a newb (PFC) he took his first rd out of the sweet spot when prepping for the engagement. Should have taken it from the hard-to-reach locations and save those sweet spot rds. for quick reloads. - Loader had to be constantly monitored and told what to do by the TC. His Bail out CVC helmet connection came undone several times., But he managed to get his sunglasses back on after the NBC engaement..... - Put the COAX ammo in the ready box vs. draping it over the box so it can get hung up. - TC spends too much time down inside on his Screen, get you head up and get situational Awareness. - Loaders 240 engagement, started out 20-25 rd burst, then blew thru the belt at the end. and never cleared the gun or placed the safety on after the engagement, just locked the pintle mount. - COAX was pathetic. Stoppages, back up and try it again, then more stoppages. (Ammo clearly is getting hung up in the flex chute causing the 1 shot stoppage). TC did nothing but help the gunner keep charging the COAX. You're the TC, not the gunner, it's his weapon, you're in the middle of an engagement, either Cal .50 or a Heat rd. Fucking around with the gunner trying to get the COAX running is going to help the ATGM team light you up. - Loader just let the Aft caps pile up, and never once did he cross level ammo from hard-to-get locations in the ready rack to the sweet spot in the center for fast follow up reloads. You're the loader, you need to have your shit together.
@@sw5334 Not a tanker, but pretty sure that's the knee-operated lever which presses the switch that opens the ammo hatch (you can tell from the grip pad on the outward facing side). So yeah, it's a safety thing. Flipping it up vertical when not in an engagement prevents the hatch being opened accidentally and also serves as a quick visual check that the system is "safed".
[02/18/22] As some constructive feedback, it would be great if you could put narrative captions/subtitles at the bottom of the screen explaining exactly what's going on. This would go a long way for the average viewer to understand what goes on inside the turret of an MBT, specifically the M1. You might even get a lot more views, and subs because of the complete explanations. Questions: How bad is the turbine noise under the helmets? Was this for gunnery tables, if so which ones? At 11:45 to 11:50 what is TC pulling on with his left hand?
Thanks for the feedback I will definitely take this into consideration. Sorry for thee late response! This was Table 4. The noise is still pretty bad even with the helmet. I know because freedom rings everyday in my ear.
@@IsaacMuntz...no, you have a seat. It's just crammed to the side and you have to push yourself back against the wall because when the gunner fires and the action on the main gun comes back it passes right in front of you. If it hits you...ohhh boy...you're in for a real treat.
They actually do, really neat system. You wear a vest under your nomax suit and it hooks into the NBC system and blows air to cool you inside your suit.
In the howlitzer tank you dont want to be behind the gun because when it fires the load door kicks all the back too the exit door -2 inches. It will smash you.
The crew didn't load the 240's correctly. These are open bolt machine guns and the action should have been back before the belts were laid across the feed tray and the top cover closed.
i have a question since idk anything about tank procedure, but why dont you stage the ammo sooner for the machine gun on the front? i saw you can link them around 10:00 so why not that last belt that was in the bin?
And anime and movies want us to believe that a lone untrained teenager, in a world devastated by an alien invasion, can somehow start up a battlemech which is about 20x more complicated than this beast right here, and take on the alien armada in open combat without missing any shots. 😂
I mean if I recall correctly Rheinmetall is already trying to develop a 1 person tank. So in a distant future I dont see why those scenarios will be so unrealistic. Dont forget the Mark 1 was a 8 crew tank. And most new concept tanks are already down to 3. (soviet tanks have been 3 person for a long time already.All be it with a flawed carousel auto loader. Which i like to call solid rocket booster)
Why are they wearing gas masks inside of the tank? Is it to simulate a chemical or bioweapon attack or is it because the gases from the fired shells are released into the crew compartment once the breach is open? If that is the case, then why isn't the fume extractor removing all of the gases in the barrel out into the open?
@@a1marine105 If that is the case, then why isn't the fume extractor removing all of the gases from out of the barrel? Isn't that the purpose of having it?
@@zhaoyun3153 I ain't a expert but I do believe the bore needs to be cleaned time to time also somone who claimed to be a tanker was the one that said the dust was guaranteed to be inhaled by the crew my source may not be 100 credible so take what I say as a possibility and not a fact xd
The standards go down each decade I'm afraid. I could never be in todays military that is filled with so many doing as little as possible to get by. It's a lazy, stupid way to go through life, but many were raised without a father in the house to teach them how to be a man. It's a sad state we are in now.
It's peace time. It's a sorry excuse but it's true. They don't need to do everything the right way in Garrison because their lives don't depend on it yet...
@@Billfish57 Yep that kind of shit is because they don't use'em hard or it would have been fed correctly. Granted training unit, but clearly they aren't concerned about a jam or belt breaking.
@@jondavidmcnabb problem isn’t soldiers or NCOs. Problem is BDE and BNs pushing max effort to make a chicklet green at the expense of time and training. Gunnery is a check the block now where as online training and cyber awareness etc is a DROP EVERYTHING and get it done. Don’t blame what the generations before these guys created.
Automaty ładowania wymyszają aminicję w kdłubie a to jest ogromne ryzyko frówających wierz,,,,, Abrms to fantastyczna maszyna. Pokazała to w Kuwejcie.......
Every mil-spec connector I've ever seen has had some kind of twist-lock or screw collar engagement to ensure that your shit is secured in the heat of combat. So can any tankers tell me: what's the deal with our man needing to reconnect his headset cable multiple times? I'll take a guess... busted/mangled connector housing which hasn't been fixed yet because it isn't deemed to be a serious fault?
The lowest bidder lol. The head sets that we had were garbage. It is not considered a deadline, which in my opinion it should be because there is no communication to the other crew/company
I used to be a Bradley commander and we used the same headsets (called CVCs). The connector is a quick disconnect for safety reasons. In case they need to exit quickly, they can just jump out and disconnect and not have to worry about tryting unscrew something.
One thing I haven't understood yet is how you get the ammo out of the right side of the bustle ammo rack. I suppose the clamps of the magazine must somehow be able to move and collapse into each other, so you can pull the right side rack to the left after the left side rack is empty, or something, but I can't imagine a way this would work mechanically without the empty clamps being in the way of the ones holding a round.
The rounds are manually transferred from right to left. It is not the most elegant operation, especially when things are hot, but then such is tank warfare....
The shell holders on the extreme right side of the Ready Rack pivot slightly into the empty holders of the 2nd tier from the right, to clear the door frame on the right. This video never gives you a good view of it. During gunnery training, since there are so few rounds to be expended, the loader pulls them from the sweet spot in the middle & left.
They gonna go home from war and have one story: “yea there was this constant head rumbling never ending REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
M1A2 crew after a long day when they try to sleep: REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
see those big things on their ears?
@@RichardDrippins don't work that well bro
@@Roborob12345 okay bro
pss-14 anyone?
@@Roborob12345 it does
"After careful examination, we have concluded that your hearing loss isn't service-related"
true story though lol
What the Abrams crew hears inside the tank except the commanders voice and the gun or MG sound is REEEEEEEEEEEEE. All day
Can confirm 😤🤣
Still hear the motherfucker when I'm going to sleep
Sounds like another day on 4chan to me.
You learn to ignore it
MG??
@@robertopesce227 machine gun
and the VA tells you "your hearing lost is not service connected"
right lol
HUH???
I think the CVC keeps out a good portion of the hydraulic whine
Does this va stand for Virginia or what?
@@zurfield7226 Veterans Affairs
This was my dream when I was in high school, but paths change, and now I am a 57 year old college professor that would dearly love to be inside one of these things.
You missed out professor.
what's your field??
Culinary Arts and Hospitality
@@paulthebaker what is a trip is that i heard your age and was thinking- oh you wanted to be on an M60 but then i remembered the Abrams is now 43 years old.
This was honestly the best job i ever had. miss these days sometimes.
2:33 my favorite sound in all tanks, shell casing ring sound after firing.
My favorite sound is the loader screaming “UP”
mine's the turret grinding to a halt
Добро пожаловать на Украину, вы больше не услышите своего любимого звука, не успеете выстрелить..
@@СЕРГЕЙПОЧГАНОВ what this gotta do with Ukraine
@@culturedman1310Так он же идиот...
2:17 I just love the sound of the turret when it stops turning
Yea the Sound of the turret breaking in its turning motion is nice af
very Star Wars sound eh
Gaijin:I didn’t see that
When the sepv2 will be added to the game, Russia will already have alien technology
@@DanySdowo like bruh all we need rn is the TUSK to match the BVM’s relic ERA. Not to mention the BVM was built in 2017.
@@F-18Super or just add M829A3 it counters K5 Era would make every other russian top tier tank that uses K5 near useless or A2 i thing a2 could do it to
Yeah reload like 2-3 seconds
@@DanySdowo Russia Sadly will have T-14 Armata
Love the crew commands. "Fire and adjust" "On the way!" "Target"
Yes I do love that. Followed by the Afcap hitting the deflector making the “ting” noise
Ah yes, that brings back a lot of good memories...and some not so good. I spent 4 years on that beast, except I was on the M1A1.
Badass dude! What do tankers do outside of actually being in tanks? Is it just being fucked over like infantry is?
@@mousse4493 Tank orgy
@@mousse4493maintenance
The good old days. Retired now. Many years worth of memories on this beast.
How u feel the first time in combat
I remember for my gunnery during the gas mask part I would just cover my mouth when talking into the headset (I was the driver). Thanks for uploading this it brings back a lot of great memories. Best job I ever had !
We did that at NTC.
Good times!
Finally, a competent loader. These videos usually feature some poor loader clumsily wrestling with the round, trying to flip it around horizontally instead of vertically, which is much quicker and more efficient. He's quick, and that's good. This is also the first video I've seen featuring the 3-man engagement. I used to love that one. The tower would say "At this time, simulate your loader being killed." I would let out a dying yell "OOOOOOoooh!..." There would be a silence from the tower for a few seconds, and then "......Good simulation. At this time, dismount your loader and have him retreat 100 meters to the rear, and prepare for three-man engagement." I never got reprimanded for that. Just lucky, I guess.
6:06-6:10 Gaijin notice how the door is not open for the entire duration of the reload? When I get shot during the reload the ammo rack should only affect the crew for 3-4 seconds max not the entire reload.
Ammo rack shots only kill crew when it penetrates the doors and then kills ammo, so whenever a shot penetrates the front of your turret and proceeds to punch through the 'loader doors' while killing ammo, you will lose your tank. It's intended. You think it only happens during reload because it's most likely when you receive a shot to the front of your turret.
Well thats true, but how you will continue to play without ammunition? XD
@@mat05usz Did not think of this. Kudos on the idea but I truly did not think Gajin would model that. Thinking back about every time it happened it did penetrate the rear panel. Thank you for adding insight.
@@ERIKNOWAKK 1 in the chamber and whatever is in the hull which for me are my smoke rounds.
Notice at 2:34 that the door *is* open for the whole reload.
Did the loader literallly "punched" the shell to take it out from the storage? :D
Punching downward to unlock the round.
It's a latch, hit it down and it opens, releasing the round. When everything around you is made out of steel, you tend to ware gloves a lot and manhandle things to get them to move.
The rounds have a slight spring loaded pressure to them. When you hit the release catch in the manner he did the round pops out. As shown, a good loader can take advantage of this to keep the momentum going to pull the round and get it in the tube in around 4 seconds.
YOU BET YOUR TANKER HAPPY ASS I DID!
I don't remember being delicate with anything on the tank. Unless I snuck a cooler of beers on for my boys.
no way. a real life private doyle. you're a legend bro
The one and only!
man, this looks like so much fun... during peace times
whats the point of being a tank crew member if there is no war
@@j.a.3138 ???
@@j.a.3138 Get paid, do fun stuff, not die?
@@j.a.3138 The point of these weapons is to deter wars from starting, and failing that, to end them on your side's terms.
engine sound BTW his reloading speed is really good
Yea im amazed at the speed of him
Loader is smoking 🚬
That muffled "ON THE WAY" makes everything better :)
On The Way!!
9:23 Shhh the Abrams is controlled by R2 D2. I'm sorry to reveal the secret.
As my grandad once said after his time in WW2, if your in a tank.. your coffin is where you sit. - my grandfather was Anti-tank and amour piecing projectile. Still got his badge to today.
imagine listening to that buzzing sound constantly for Weeks on the battlefield, my ears would bleed from that dear god
Trust me, it does
@@MajorTanks Are you allowed to wear some kind of earplugs? Normal / electronic?
looks so modern. The M1A1 looks like a mobile fortress and the T-90 makes me think of a wild beast. Anyway, I love all MBT
People be like "How dont you go crazy cause of the engine??"
You do.
Crazy sound, needs a big turbo diesel, they sound great.
@@FairladyS130 think that's actually the hydraulics system for the turret. The engine is surprisingly very quiet in idle.
@@jackfletch2001 Correct, that whine isn't the engine, it's the turret hydraulics.
@@machinech183 OK crew, what would you give for a quiet electric system?
@@jackfletch2001 Both things are terribly loud. The hydraulics pumps and the turbine engine are loud as fuck. I know they got headphones that most certainly deafen it, but holy shit that would still drive me crazy.
Great insight... Good times. Kinda wish i stayed in that business. Respect!
Not too late to reenlist
@@rowmagnvs In my case, youre kinda right... Yet im in a situation where i want to. But cant until my doctors start doing their job.
It’s not a business, business is when you make money
bro's getting ready to assault black mesa 💀
Holy hell that noise is getting on my nerves and I’m laying in bed watching this on my phone 😂
The sound of music
What u talking about. That's the loveliest sound ever
*Love to see this, great work bros!!!*
More to come!
Regardless of the noise, this thing is a beast.
It still falls like any other tank
@@grainster m1a2 abrams armor are really heavy and it would take at least 3-4 javelin missiles to penetrate their armor
@@j.a.3138 what? In top attack mode a javelin would easily penetrate the M1A2’s top armor. Probly wouldn’t be a catastrophic kill like in a T72 but it would likely kill anyone in the way of the shaped charge. Also, tank penetration isn’t cumulative unless you hit the same exact spot, so I don’t know where the 3-4 hits you mention is coming from.
@@j.a.3138I'm die-hard for the Abrams and know that's bullshit.
the high pitched whine lives in my ears rent free
ASMR sounds of REEEEEEE to fall asleep too
even the commander looks so young..
The russian / chinese tanks couuld only dream of such interior and ammo blowout compartment / doors lmao. Not to speak of the air conditioning, which albeit Ive never entered an Abrams, would BET that its mutifold better than any russian or chinese ones. And finally - the engine, the brakes and the overall protection. M1A2 is where its at! Huge respect to the ONLY global superpower - the US - and thanks for the service to all current and former servicemen and women, from your humble NATO-allied eastern european member - Bulgaria
Couldn't have put it better, I remember when the Ukraine war first kicked off every American military video was full of salty Russians (and still is) arguing about how Russian tech was better (lol) and no auto loader was ALWAYS the point they stuck too. Like bro if your T72 even gets breathed on with it's carousel of ammo, you die. Period.
надо было дать туркам вас вырезать. сколько раз мы вас спасали, но вы всегда воевали против нас. надеюсь, в предстоящей войне, нас не заставят спасать пособника НАТО.
They've so much space in the Abrams. LEO 2 HEL is like a fuckin' cocoon. If someone is over 6 feet they will find it very hard to fit inside the tank.
This loader is the embodiment of speed. He's faster than some autoloaders.
most loaders are faster than russian auto loaders nato auto loaders are faster and protected by blast doors
@@dew7025 they are only faster for the first few rounds, humans get tired after a while
@@dew7025Yes, but I was talking about autoloaders in general, like the earlier ones used in the 50s and stuff.
@@blackdification grunts with a strong right arm never get tired
This is what 20 years of fighting terrorists gets you. This crew is like a soup sandwich. Whoever is the Master Gunner for this unit, you got your work cut out.
- Loader is a newb (PFC) he took his first rd out of the sweet spot when prepping for the engagement. Should have taken it from the hard-to-reach locations and save those sweet spot rds. for quick reloads.
- Loader had to be constantly monitored and told what to do by the TC. His Bail out CVC helmet connection came undone several times., But he managed to get his sunglasses back on after the NBC engaement.....
- Put the COAX ammo in the ready box vs. draping it over the box so it can get hung up.
- TC spends too much time down inside on his Screen, get you head up and get situational Awareness.
- Loaders 240 engagement, started out 20-25 rd burst, then blew thru the belt at the end. and never cleared the gun or placed the safety on after the engagement, just locked the pintle mount.
- COAX was pathetic. Stoppages, back up and try it again, then more stoppages. (Ammo clearly is getting hung up in the flex chute causing the 1 shot stoppage). TC did nothing but help the gunner keep charging the COAX. You're the TC, not the gunner, it's his weapon, you're in the middle of an engagement, either Cal .50 or a Heat rd. Fucking around with the gunner trying to get the COAX running is going to help the ATGM team light you up.
- Loader just let the Aft caps pile up, and never once did he cross level ammo from hard-to-get locations in the ready rack to the sweet spot in the center for fast follow up reloads. You're the loader, you need to have your shit together.
Spoken like someone who has been there done that. That's why no-one likes a rookie; they're liable to get you all killed.
What is that flat plate near the loaders knee that he keeps flipping up and down? A safety thing?
@@sw5334 Not a tanker, but pretty sure that's the knee-operated lever which presses the switch that opens the ammo hatch (you can tell from the grip pad on the outward facing side). So yeah, it's a safety thing. Flipping it up vertical when not in an engagement prevents the hatch being opened accidentally and also serves as a quick visual check that the system is "safed".
@@sixstringedthing that makes sense. Thanks.
this is why its a training
[02/18/22] As some constructive feedback, it would be great if you could put narrative captions/subtitles at the bottom of the screen explaining exactly what's going on. This would go a long way for the average viewer to understand what goes on inside the turret of an MBT, specifically the M1. You might even get a lot more views, and subs because of the complete explanations.
Questions: How bad is the turbine noise under the helmets?
Was this for gunnery tables, if so which ones?
At 11:45 to 11:50 what is TC pulling on with his left hand?
He's pulling the bolt back on the coax machine gun. Their coax seems to be malfunctioning,
Thanks for the feedback I will definitely take this into consideration. Sorry for thee late response! This was Table 4.
The noise is still pretty bad even with the helmet. I know because freedom rings everyday in my ear.
Man imagine you rollover and you fall on that spiky read-end of the shell casing.
やっぱりM1戦車の室内は広くて最高です。それにアメリカ軍人は最高です。私の住む日本の北海道にもアメリカ軍基地が有りました。日本に来て下さい。
Yes. Or no. It depends.
My brotha
Miss these days as crazy as it sounds
That .50 Cal is so hot when it fires
I was an M60A1 and then an M1A1 tanker, good times
I can almost smell that distinctive grease and machine aroma that permeated the tank.
Round doesn't eject, has to hit it twice, still slaps it in less than 4 seconds. My man.
Always got to be faster than the Russian auto loader!
@@MajorTanks with guns like those, we can rest easy.
I have never muted a video so fast in my life
Dam that sound is deafening
Am I the only one who isn't bothered by it?
@@nilakalis854 yes
Laoder position looks amazingly confortable.
...from experience...it isn't. It's generally considered the least comfortable of positions to be in.
@@KingNicotine yeah man, imagine standing all day
@@IsaacMuntz...no, you have a seat. It's just crammed to the side and you have to push yourself back against the wall because when the gunner fires and the action on the main gun comes back it passes right in front of you. If it hits you...ohhh boy...you're in for a real treat.
So thats the inside of a tank huh, i didnt expect that much tech to be inside, you guys atleast have an AC in there right?
Some tanks do and don’t. I know the new Leopard 2A7V does and earlier Abrams Variants didn’t, as for the the newest ones I couldn’t tell ya
They actually do, really neat system. You wear a vest under your nomax suit and it hooks into the NBC system and blows air to cool you inside your suit.
YEs AC is for the equipment only not for the crew they can careless about the crew. We use the NBC system to get cold air
@@MajorTanks as the gunner, I shoved that NBC hose in the crotch of my nomax so damn much... The boys cool, your cool.
the sound of the machine guns firing is satisfying to hear for me
In the howlitzer tank you dont want to be behind the gun because when it fires the load door kicks all the back too the exit door -2 inches. It will smash you.
I thought someone was screaming "WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" at the beginning of the video, turns out it was the tank
If i hear that sound DIIIINNGGGGGGG all day i will got crazy
The whine of that tank is still in my ears. I call it the sound of silence.
GUNNER, HEAT, PC!
GUNNER, SABOT, TAAAAAAANK!
NEXT TARGET NEXT TARGET!!!
jeez that whirring noise would give me tinnitus for sure lmfao.
Freedom Rings everyday in my ears lol
Bro is lifting 40 pound shells like its nothing, mad respect. you must be sweating
Armor crewman (Tanker) was my job for 13
years
What happen with the 20 years of service u was close
@@Daniel-yb7ry The military changed to much. I had to leave but served proudly.
Love this! Love being able to see how our tax dollars are hard at work 8)
Everyone in the comments was an Abrams crew member. Wow, lots of knowledge here
They all play one game! Watch out for those badasses, they'll chase you down in their virtual tanks.
Great video! Thanks.
0:01 how the boys be looking at you when you're too gone at the party.
those dislikes are from their seniors
The crew didn't load the 240's correctly. These are open bolt machine guns and the action should have been back before the belts were laid across the feed tray and the top cover closed.
Are those actual APFSDS or just training rounds?
Training rounds on both the sabot an HEAT they fired.
I didn’t see any heat rounds
They loaded one...watch carefully.
@machinech is correct. HEAT @ 4:50 mark
The rounds are blue so they are training rounds. Real ones are black.
Out of curosity, is every crewman in a abrams able to do the job of the other if they go down in combat? Just something im curious about.
Yes, we train in all the stations just incase for that matter. it may not be much but its just enough to understand that station.
@@MajorTanks ok, thanks for the answer!
i have a question since idk anything about tank procedure, but why dont you stage the ammo sooner for the machine gun on the front? i saw you can link them around 10:00 so why not that last belt that was in the bin?
And anime and movies want us to believe that a lone untrained teenager, in a world devastated by an alien invasion, can somehow start up a battlemech which is about 20x more complicated than this beast right here, and take on the alien armada in open combat without missing any shots. 😂
I mean if I recall correctly Rheinmetall is already trying to develop a 1 person tank. So in a distant future I dont see why those scenarios will be so unrealistic. Dont forget the Mark 1 was a 8 crew tank. And most new concept tanks are already down to 3. (soviet tanks have been 3 person for a long time already.All be it with a flawed carousel auto loader. Which i like to call solid rocket booster)
17:13 - What happens here? It sounds like the TC is saying "Freeze freeze freeze".
Why are they wearing gas masks inside of the tank? Is it to simulate a chemical or bioweapon attack or is it because the gases from the fired shells are released into the crew compartment once the breach is open? If that is the case, then why isn't the fume extractor removing all of the gases in the barrel out into the open?
Simulate a chemical attack
Thanks, but why aren't they all buttoned up?
@@zhaoyun3153 they arent simulating a chemical attack they are probs wearing it so they don't inhale the dust from rounds fired I belive
@@a1marine105 If that is the case, then why isn't the fume extractor removing all of the gases from out of the barrel? Isn't that the purpose of having it?
@@zhaoyun3153 I ain't a expert but I do believe the bore needs to be cleaned time to time also somone who claimed to be a tanker was the one that said the dust was guaranteed to be inhaled by the crew my source may not be 100 credible so take what I say as a possibility and not a fact xd
I'd pay for a narrated version of this.
I can get along with a tanker. i was an engineer in 331..working on army barg/tug boat
The Abrams for the entire video: 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟
Looks cozy in there
Loose feed shoot on the coax. Come on guys. Do we do PMCS anymore ?
The standards go down each decade I'm afraid. I could never be in todays military that is filled with so many doing as little as possible to get by.
It's a lazy, stupid way to go through life, but many were raised without a father in the house to teach them how to be a man. It's a sad state we are in now.
They don't care in todays Army...
It's peace time. It's a sorry excuse but it's true. They don't need to do everything the right way in Garrison because their lives don't depend on it yet...
@@Billfish57 Yep that kind of shit is because they don't use'em hard or it would have been fed correctly. Granted training unit, but clearly they aren't concerned about a jam or belt breaking.
@@jondavidmcnabb problem isn’t soldiers or NCOs. Problem is BDE and BNs pushing max effort to make a chicklet green at the expense of time and training. Gunnery is a check the block now where as online training and cyber awareness etc is a DROP EVERYTHING and get it done. Don’t blame what the generations before these guys created.
THE WHISPERING DEATH, MY ASS
Automaty ładowania wymyszają aminicję w kdłubie a to jest ogromne ryzyko frówających wierz,,,,, Abrms to fantastyczna maszyna. Pokazała to w Kuwejcie.......
why no sights on the loaders MG?
As if having tinnitus irl wasn’t bad enough, now I have a second kind of ringing noise constantly as well.
How they are withstand heat inside the tank during mid day on desert?
That's the neat part, ya don't. Take a couple gallons of water in with you and hydrate
I think I’ve seen the other dudes FOV Before manning the actual gun
dude the turbine right at the start was hitting exactly the note of the start of a song i was listening to yesterday
it starts like this EEEEEEEEEEE
Didnt realize the turret ammo blast door took so long to close.
I think I got tinnitus just watching this...
CAN YOU MAKE A VIDEO DESCRIBING THE EXTERIOR OF THE TANK?
M1A2: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
How do y'all dispose of those shell caps when they drop out the gun tube? Yall just toss em outside?
We give them back to the armory after they are spent
@@MajorTanks and what do they with them?
Do they have to keep the vacuum cleaner on all the time?
unless they wanna hand crank the turret, yes
“Vacuum cleaner” okay that was funny
Every mil-spec connector I've ever seen has had some kind of twist-lock or screw collar engagement to ensure that your shit is secured in the heat of combat.
So can any tankers tell me: what's the deal with our man needing to reconnect his headset cable multiple times?
I'll take a guess... busted/mangled connector housing which hasn't been fixed yet because it isn't deemed to be a serious fault?
The lowest bidder lol. The head sets that we had were garbage. It is not considered a deadline, which in my opinion it should be because there is no communication to the other crew/company
I used to be a Bradley commander and we used the same headsets (called CVCs). The connector is a quick disconnect for safety reasons. In case they need to exit quickly, they can just jump out and disconnect and not have to worry about tryting unscrew something.
One thing I haven't understood yet is how you get the ammo out of the right side of the bustle ammo rack. I suppose the clamps of the magazine must somehow be able to move and collapse into each other, so you can pull the right side rack to the left after the left side rack is empty, or something, but I can't imagine a way this would work mechanically without the empty clamps being in the way of the ones holding a round.
The rounds are manually transferred from right to left. It is not the most elegant operation, especially when things are hot, but then such is tank warfare....
The shell holders on the extreme right side of the Ready Rack pivot slightly into the empty holders of the 2nd tier from the right, to clear the door frame on the right. This video never gives you a good view of it. During gunnery training, since there are so few rounds to be expended, the loader pulls them from the sweet spot in the middle & left.
The tank driver in the video is from the 1st US Infantry Division, right?
Question for tankers. How does it feel to go fight in a big steel box?
Does this Abrams have the ircm pod on the turret?
the constant sound reminds me of Tinnitus, just louder....
My A2 didnt have the crows. I can see that it hinders the TC's 12 oclock observation of about 100%. Good shit tho boys!
yeah it makes the loader more reliable to guide the tank but the TC could also use the crows to guide the tank through the camera
That’s so cool
Это он постоянно так пищит? Это же жесть, не выдержал бы даже часа такого непрерывного писка.
В спец.наушниках для подавления шума выдержил
Что мой дорогой старший является турбинным двигателем.
Wait dont you instanly close the door ones you pull out the round i allways thought first the door then the round in the breach
You don’t pull out the round, this is a third generation tank 😒
@@hdogg21 I mean Pull the round out of the turret bustle Not the Breach
@@rayotoxi1509 IIRC, the door closes automatically.
Jezu, ile lodówek i pralek by tam zmieścił...
If they must go out quickly.. I don't wanna be the gunner.. He haven't a good escape-way..
They gonna go home from war and have one story: “yea there was this constant head rumbling never ending REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE