Extreme Engineering - Abrams Rebuild

[timbo]

Did anybody see this on Quest last night or am I the only saddo out there...?

 

It was actually quite good though - trainload of abrams arrive for refurbishment, no faffing about with driving them just throw em around like toys using massive cranes. Track removal for me involves hours of sweating, cursing, grubbing around in the dirt and skinned knuckles.. Not for these boys - gas axe 'em apart then another massive overhead crane just rolls the rapidly diminishing hull forwards, bout 10 mins all in I'd say.

 

Need some spare parts ? No problem - just send a robot truck off into a warehouse with racking 9 (yes 9) stories high and Bob Grundy's yer uncle...

 

Best of all though was blasting the bare hulls clean - another huge crane whips the thing upright and pops it into a massive vertical blast cabinet for 90 minutes from where it emerges looking like new..

 

All very impressive but just not as much fun as grubbing around in the mud for months to recut one thread !

[robin craig]

We have had that show on our side of the pond a few times.

 

Quite the operation, mass production always makes for short cuts doesn't it.

 

I think we will be seeing those hulls re worked a few times before we get the next "Tank" design.

 

R

[AlienFTM]

I once saw something very similar in a series called Megafactories that just goes round and round.

[timbo]

I once saw something very similar in a series called Megafactories that just goes round and round.

 

 

Erm...sorry Alien old chap do you mean the factory or the series ?!