Metalstorm tank from John Ringo

Metal Storm weapons mounted on the chassis of an M1A1 Abrams tank are featured in When the Devil Dances and Hell's Faire books by John Ringo

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[NuclearArbitor]

tanks don't drift... the turn on the spot but they don't drift, way to much friction and they don't go fast enough. also, metal storm is a bitch to reload, it's best used for disposable things, so i don't expect to see something like that.

[taurus494]

yeah i know, a drifting tank would need to be going at like 300 miles an hour and need a very skilled driver

[FogerRox]

M1-A goes fast enough to catch air.

[FogerRox]

The Abrams catches air over a berm. In fact I know a certain Gunny who claims he can jump his M1, and shoot in mid air, and hit his target 3000 ft away.

[taurus494]

i very much doubt that, MBT's go at like 30-40 tops

[FogerRox]

Puh-lease....You mean in WW2, the Medium tank, Sherman did 36mph, the M-1 can do 60 mph as per wiki.

wiki/M1_Abrams

[SYLACE2]

If you were in any form of one you'd know its spelled battalion bud.

[althalus12]

For those of you commenting about the uslessness of tank mounted metalstorm systems this system is used in a fiction book by John Ringo. It is designed to destroy heavily armored air unites i.e. spaceships

[GrigoriZhukov]

@UCDEamon yeah yeah, now lets see you reload that damn thing while under fire. Same with the personel weapons...it's fucking muzzle loader and that is teh most damnably SLOW way to reload ever. BTDT...

[GrigoriZhukov]

@pyrewyrm not really, though asphalt does tear up the track pads like a mother.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@SYLACE2 No it's spelt "Bn" sheesh...

[GrigoriZhukov]

@FogerRox it's possible...

[GrigoriZhukov]

@taurus494 yeah if it shit junk from russia.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@taurus494 DAMN you little children need to get from behind the monitor and see the REAL damn world.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@NuclearArbitor Shows what you know...they do so, as does the M113 (barely older than me) But obviously when I was sitting there watching that M1 and later an M1A1 and later STILL an M1A2(block 20) I was seeing a hologram AND I damn sure didn't see that M113A3 drifting...because I was too busy driving the fucking thing. While we are at it nimrod...I know for a fact that an M35As WITH a water buffalo on the back can drift also...I don't recommend it as your undies tend to bunch afterward.

[pyrewyrm]

@NuclearArbitor There's a vid here of a panther or leopard tank drifting on mud.. the sand bit is probably alittle extreme though for a 65 ton MBT...

[demonkoryu]

Yeah! I like the books. I actually watched this vid before reading the books, so my imagination while reading was very vivid. :D

[Halo4Lyf]

@althalus12 Didn't they also use a battalion of 'em as indirect fire support weapons at some point in Hell's Faire?