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Re: Tanks on Freeways?
Author: Hot Water
Date: 03-28-2020 - 15:40

Little brother Wrote:
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> Tanks can be equipped with "street treads" (rubber
> cleats which contact the road rather than steel
> ones).
>
> I saw an M-47 with them at Fort Ord when I visited
> my brother during his basic training.


All well and good, i.e. the "street treads", however those may have been only for "old tanks". The current Abrams M1A series of tanks, that weigh in excess of 60 to 70 tons, in "fighting shape" will do all sorts of damage to current streets & highways. No matter with "rubber treads" of not.

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