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Re: Tanks on Freeways?
Author: Pdxrailtransit
Date: 03-28-2020 - 15:59

Hot Water Wrote:
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> Little brother Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.

Seem to remember the Park Service keeping Trump's July 4th tank off if the Mall in D.C.

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