Yahoo/AP ran a news story today on this modified Abrams being deployed in the current assault on Marjah. This youtube video was embeded in the story and has a lot of impressive footage of the vehicle going through field testing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy0y2jAHpI&feature=player_embedded
Breaching has come a long way since the Bangalore torpedo!
Well that just stinks. What happened to the good ol’ days of mine detectors and a probing stick? What a bunch of sissies!
By the way, I’m a former combat engineer from the early '90’s. I’m just joking, that’s one cool beast.
-Jesse
Man thanks for posting this way cool vid… For some time when I first saw thie beast I wanted to scratchbuild some of it’s parts to ass the an M1 chassis. An after some time of looking I found a lot of photo of it under testing and in afghanistan., but it was realy good to see footage of it in action. I just can’t wate till I start building my own version. I hope to have my model build before some company comes out with one. Any way CuriousG thanks a lot for posting M8.
I was thinking the same thing as I watched this: “What a cool scratchbuilt conversion subject!” Could make a nice dio as well, pushing around a lot of dirt or launching a ribbon of C4. It’s a bit beyond my skills or ambition right now, but I would love to see someone do it. I doubt if one will be available OOB for a while.