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M1A2 Abrams MBT

48.6k BMilan  5.6 years ago

M1A2 Abrams MBT

Some History

The M1 Abrams entered service in the United States Army and United States Marine Corps in 1980. The purpose was to replace the M60 Patton which was the United States' earlier MBT. The M1 had 2 updates since then, the M1A1 and the M1A2. The M1A2 Abrams is equipped with a 120 mm L/44 M256A1 smoothbore gun. It's secondary armament is a .50 caliber M2HB heavy machine gun mounted on the top and two M240 machine guns (one mounted on the top and one coaxial). The tank was named after General Creighton Abrams.

Now let's talk about my build!

It took me several weeks (maybe months, I started working on the first version in May, 2018) to build this (if we sum up the total work hours that I spent working on the tank, then about a week of non-stop work)

But I'd like to thank to @Minecraftpoweer for helping me out with this amazing track system, just look at it:

Awesome, isn't it?

The tank has 20 boom25s to shoot (I'd recommend WNP78's Advanced Targeting mod, if you want to accurately hit things... or people:
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Mods/View/767005/Advanced-Targeting)
And 2 machine guns, one is mounted on the top and can turn 180° in each direction, separately from the main turret, while the other is coaxial and follows the main cannon.
it also has a periscope (basically useless but it gives an immersion if you only use the cameras and the cockpit view)

Controls

VTOL Up - Go forward
VTOL Down - Go backward
AG1 + roll-pitch - Main Cannon + coaxial machine gun (CAM1)(FireWeapons button to fire the cannon, FireGuns button to fire the machine gun)
AG2 + roll-pitch - Top mounted machine gun (CAM2)(FireGuns button to fire)
AG3 + roll - Periscope (CAM3)
AG7 - Lights
CounterMeasures button - Launch a smokescreen

A little Demonstration

Main Cannon
Firing the Main Cannon

Top Machine Gun
Firing the .50 cal

Periscope
Periscope movement

Smokescreen
Smokescreen

Lights
Lights

Some more in-game pictures


The Abrams at the middle of the Maywar Desert


Same Place, different angle


Main Cannon view


Machine gun view


Periscope view

Thank you again to @Minecraftpoweer for helping me with the suspension and for giving some great advices!
I hope you like my creation, I have a lot of work in it.
Have fun!

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 23.9ft (7.3m)
  • Length 60.8ft (18.5m)
  • Height 20.9ft (6.4m)
  • Empty Weight 23,961lbs (10,868kg)
  • Loaded Weight 39,135lbs (17,751kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 58,173.0lbs/ft2 (284,025.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 0.7ft2 (0.1m2)
  • Drag Points 27271

Parts

  • Number of Parts 943
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 5,660
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    Where is the Bustle Rack Extension? @BMilan

    4.2 years ago
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    48.6k BMilan

    @JamesBleriot Ok I sat down and updated all of my posts. Now the images work again.

    4.5 years ago
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    48.6k BMilan

    @JamesBleriot yeah I know. I'll upload them all to imgur and update all my posts but currently I dont have time to do it.

    4.5 years ago
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    4,360 JamesBleriot

    Half your images don’t work anymore @BMilan

    4.5 years ago
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    1,217 Cvanimation

    i making new british competitor for that

    4.6 years ago
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    570 YOUKYOSEI

    The track is fantastic...really cool

    5.5 years ago
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    Hey, good job too. Part count is too high though :)

    +1 5.5 years ago
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    48.6k BMilan

    @CeeToTheZee thanks 🙂

    5.5 years ago
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    11.3k CeeToTheZee

    This is actually really good, you really deserve more upvotes with this one.

    +2 5.5 years ago
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    35.7k ThePilotDude

    Great work! I can't believe I missed this!

    +1 5.5 years ago
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    11.4k shipster

    Looks nice, but it has an insane Part Count. At least for my Kindle

    5.6 years ago
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    11.4k shipster

    @Minecraftpoweer Yes

    5.6 years ago
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    @shipster partcount?

    5.6 years ago
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    11.4k shipster

    One downside.

    5.6 years ago
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    48.6k BMilan

    @Dllama4 no problem

    5.6 years ago
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    104k Dllama4

    Nice! Sorry for not responding to you on Discord. I had school.

    5.6 years ago
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    48.6k BMilan

    @TakicraftCorporation csak nyuodtan, igazából az ötletet én is vki mástól vettem 😂

    +1 5.6 years ago
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    Nagyon állat lett! Nekem a ponyva a kedvencem a torony oldalán ha nem haragszol lenyúlom 😀

    5.6 years ago