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ryathal ,

US military equipment is all designed to have absurd maintenance requirements. If you aren’t using US military doctrine the equipment is borderline useless.

Diplomjodler , (edited )

Surely revving the engine to the max in a battle space where being spotted means certain death cannot lead to any sort of problem.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
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The good news maybe it’s that, being only 31, losing all of them will only cost 6 Pentagon toilets.

naturalgasbad OP ,

No, it’s the filters in the engines’ intakes. The filters keep dirt and debris from fouling and wrecking an M-1’s delicate—but powerful—engine. They require constant cleaning.

If an Abrams’ four-person crew neglects to clean its tank’s filters every 12 hours or so, it might so badly damage the engine that the battalion has no choice but to remove the engine, and potentially the transmission, and ship it away for a lengthy overhaul.

The solution to the sand-ingestion problem was the twice-a-day pulse-jet cleaning process. It works just fine, as long as crews rigorously adhere to its schedule. Even when they’re getting shot at.

“All those things can be taught to the crew, but if ever they make a mistake—and they will—it blows a million-dollar engine that can’t be repaired in the field,” Mark Hertling, a retired U.S. Army general, told The Kyiv Independent.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
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Bless

AnUnusualRelic ,
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So they’re basically designed to be driven in malls and suburbs?

vaultdweller013 ,

Its moreso that they were designed with US capabilities in mind, ya know the country which could wage war in a landlocked nation on the other side of the planet for 20 years. Also the same country that dedicated entire ships to icecream 80 years ago while their enemy fought itself over steel, all while supplying its allies with an absurd number of tanks, planes, and guns.

Yeah the US military is and has been a logistical monstrosity, its easy to forget that a lot of countries dont have the same capacity. A lost tank to the US army will sting but theres a hundred spares sitting in the Sierra army depot, meanwhile to say Ukraine that same loss can be crippling if it happens at the wrong time.

Duamerthrax ,

You may want to look up the Golf War if you want to know more about the Abrams desert track record.

GBU_28 ,

That place was a sand trap

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