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Tanks in storage/range target @ Elgin Air Force Base(Flickr)
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 9:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage/range target @ Elgin Air Force Base(Flickr)

Thanks for your update about the M47 units with the turrets cut off. I surmise that these were created to better reference soviet block tanks like T54/T55/T62 for range targets.

I think there were also a bunch of either M46 OR M26 that were rusty as heck within the fenced area. These were a dark rust brown versus the "soviet" green paint of the M47s. It's difficult to see them because they all brown out together.

Your probably right about the M728 Combat Engineer unit what I saw.

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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:37 am Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage/range target @ Elgin Air Force Base(Fli
There is indeed an XM800T at Ft. Benning and it's now on display in the new Cavalry & Armor Historic Collection. imgur.com/8WzOOjM

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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:43 am Post subject: Re: Tanks in storage/range target @ Elgin Air Force Base(Flickr)
I stumbled across this web site, they do some sort of dirt-bike geotagging type of riding at Eglin using various military relics as waypoints. This Sherman looks to be in pretty good shape. It looks to be an M4, possibly a PSC with appliqué armor on turret and hull. www.nwfer.group/advrally

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