Shawn Timothy Nelson (August 21, 1959 – May 17, 1995) was an American veteran who stole an M60A3 tank from a California Army National Guard armory in San Diego and went on a rampage on May 17, 1995.
One such person who took that a step further on May 17, 1995, when a man named Shawn Nelson, a U.S. Army veteran and unemployed plumber, stole an M60A3 Patton tank from the United States National Guard Armory in San Diego, California.
A farmer in Ukraine has gone viral on the social media after he stole a Russian tank using a tractor. The video was posted by researcher Arslon Xudosi and re-tweeted by Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko. Vasylenko wrote: “A bit of humour before toughest talks: farmer steals tank.
As long as the tank meets the requirements to be a functional car, it is street legal. Just make sure to put the license plates on, have functioning blinkers and brake lights and horn, seatbelts, and a few other things and you should be good to go! It would be best to buy a tank that is already registered with the DMV.
The Marine's M4s
The M4 Sherman started life in 1941 as the T6 and was later serialized as the M4. The tank entered service in 1942. M4A1, A2s and A3s were all used in the Pacific Theatre by the United States Marine Corps. The Marines began to receive the M4 in 1943, specifically in the form of the diesel-powered M4A2.
The crew (four or five or six) would sleep under a waterproof tarpaulin, in a row alongside their tank. While driving or in battle for hours at a time the conditions inside were almost unbearable. Some of the spent shell casings were used as makeshift bedpans to urinate into and severe constipation was very common.
Those that have ventured offroad frequently got stuck, in extreme cases tanks sinking up to their turrets in mud. These problems forced the Russian army to abandon many vehicles, later to be recovered by Ukrainian farmers with tractors.
"Tank Man" temporarily stops the advance of Type 59 tanks on June 5, 1989, in Beijing. This photograph (one of six similar versions) was taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press.
Any penetrating hit in the turret or hull can set off the ammunition, with a result sometimes describes as Jack-in-the-box effect: the force of the blast from the ammo tears the tank apart from inside, often detaching the turret with such force that it is thrown clear. Such events are instantly fatal to the crew.
According to the vets, the life expectancy of a tank crew member was only six weeks.
Russia's latest battle tank has been upgraded in a way that will relieve its crew. The designers behind the Armata system that supports heavy armored vehicles such as the new T-14 tank have now added a toilet, allowing troops to tend to their bodily needs without exposing themselves during battle.
Australia's first Sherman, an M4A2, arrived in Australia in 1943 with a further two M4s (sometimes mis-labelled as M4A1s) arriving for tropical trials in New Guinea in 1944. The tanks were manned by crews drawn from the Australian 4th Armoured Brigade.
By contrast the American M1 Abrams' M256 120-millimeter smoothbore gun has a maximum effective range between 3 km (1.86 miles) and 4 km (2.48 miles).
Tiger I production ran from July 1942 to August 1944, with 1347 built.
"Sandpaper"-like toilet paper is still in use in some toilets in Russia and Eastern Europe. Yes, the soft stuff is available for general purchase. The gray-to-brownish Soviet-issue toilet paper is as bad as the stereotype - to varying degrees.
The Latin-script letter Z (Russian: зет, tr. zet, IPA: [zɛt]) is one of several symbols (including "V" and "O") painted on military vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces involved in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is speculated that the Z helps task forces distinguish themselves from other forces.
“For a Russian crew, if the ammo storage compartment is hit, everyone is dead,” said Robert E. Hamilton, a professor at the U.S. Army War College, adding that the force of the explosion can “instantaneously vaporize” the crew.
On September 6, 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per hour.
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America was not known for its tanks at the time, and Yankee know-how in the fields of tank guns and armor were inferior to those of other countries. Still, the Americans impressed the Germans by doing well what American cars were known for: the Germans found the Sherman well built, reliable, and comfortable.
No, Russia's accelerating tank losses are the result of leadership and morale problems more than they are any technological imbalance on the battlefield. Half of the tanks the Russians have written off since early September were abandoned by their crews and seized by the Ukrainians.
Tank, who has completely lost hearing in his ear since he revealed his condition last May, released what he announced to be his final album in August. The artist previously described R&B Money -- his 10th studio album -- as "an uninterrupted sex tape" in an interview with Variety.
No, there is no toilet in a tank. The simple reason is that the tank was built to fight so every space in the tank is there to support that purpose. A toilet would take up a lot of space in the hull or turret which would change the characteristics of the tank: weight, height, carrying space.