whassupman03 wrote: Because this is so, these museum pieces may become a valuable resource if even for a massive supply of spare parts to keep a smaller fleet running, especially since there are at least a thousand M60 Patton tanks of various variants and conditions displayed across the United States.
To what purpose? Even if bandits or a Death Cult has one...... So. They are as unlikely to have ammunition as the PCs. Within a week to a month it is going to be inoperable with a thrown track or mechanical failure without trained maintainers.
There are several ways to kill a tank, that don't require another tank. Amateurs operating one makes that even easier.
A commercial bulldozer with the tempered glass cabin would be just as effective against a horde of zombies.
whassupman03 wrote: These tanks are still usable in today's battlefield (Especially with other nations) - they use a near-exact copy of the cannon used in some of our Strykers, only that it does not have an autoloader, and it is also likely that they can use the same ammunition.
It is the British L7 gun first fielded on the Chieftain. The British smashed all competition at the NATO gunnery exercises in the 70s everyone wanted this gun. It is still capable against many threats and the ammunition is evolving. However, the ammunition to kill tanks is useless against a zombie horde and vice versa. The NATO standard 105mm main gun round. The M1A1 and M1A2 use the 120mm round. This means your only going to find 105mm on bases where the Stryker is fielded. Notice this list doesn't include the National Guard.
Yes, your M60A3 can fire the 105mm ammunition.... The gunners sights won't be calibrated for this newer higher velocity ammunition. It is all going to shoot high and off the mark.
Active army is going to have that tank gun ammo in hardened shelters in the Ammunition Supply Point (ASP) located on post near the gunnery ranges. This is run by a dedicated team of ammunition specialists. Members of a unit never go into the double cyclone fenced area of the ammo bunkers. The ammunition specialists bring it out of the bunkers to an ammunition holding area (AHA) for delivery to a unit authorized to receive it. Bunkers are not marked with their contents, and extremely valuable munitions, or munition that can be be used immediately upon uncrating (disposable AT rockets like the M72 LAW) are further protected by alarms, strobe lights, sirens, and a CS/CN gas bomb.
Active Brigade Combat Teams Posture:
• Fort Benning, Ga. -- 1 Brigade Combat Team
• Fort Bliss, Texas -- 4 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Bragg, N.C. -- 4 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Campbell, Ky. – 4 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Carson, Colo. – 4 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Drum, N.Y. – 3 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Hood, Texas – 5 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Knox, Ky. – 1 Brigade Combat Team
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Fort Lewis, Wash. – 3 Stryker Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Polk, La. – 1 Brigade Combat Team
• Fort Richardson, Ak. – 1 Brigade Combat Team
• Fort Riley, Kan. – 3 Brigade Combat Teams
• Fort Stewart, Ga. – 3 Brigade Combat Teams
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Fort Wainwright, Ak. – 1 Stryker Brigade Combat Team
• Schofield Barracks, Hawaii – 1 Brigade Combat Team
1 Stryker Brigade Combat Team
• Fort Irwin (National Training Center), Calif. – 1 Brigade Combat Team (minus)
• Korea – 1 Brigade Combat Team
• Germany –
1 Stryker Brigade Combat Team
• Italy – 1 Brigade Combat Team
whassupman03 wrote: Not to mention that with a diesel engine it is more fuel efficient and less of a garage queen than the quasi-jet engine in the M1 Abrams.[sup]3[/sup] If I were a betting man, I would bet that clever engineers and mechanics would be able to re-engineer the Patton tanks to burn biodiesel.[sup]4[/sup] Still, those are my two cents for tonight, so please take care; thanks a bunch, and have a good night.
Biodiesel is just vegetable oil which has had the solids and other denser stuff precipitated out by agitation and the introduction of a catalyst (lye). You can make it.
It is going to take acres, and acres, and acres of high oil yield crops to make some, such as sunflowers or canola. Acres that aren't growing food; if you can keep the pests out and the zombies out.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... -specs.htmhttp://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/m60.htmlhttp://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m60.htmhttp://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/tank/M60.htmlThese are 60 tons each and a C-17 or C-5 is only going to be able to carry two of them. Further the tanks would have to be able to run and move on their own to be loaded aboard. This would be a HUGE waste of manpower, and jet fuel. The military transports tanks by rail or ship. Moving a tank by air is a last ditch emergency effort.