Machines | Assault Breacher Vehicle sees first combat in Operation Cobra's Anger
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The Joker, the nickname given by the crew to one of the 72 ton, 40 foot long Assault Breacher Vehicles. "The Joker" is seeing its first combat duty in Operation Cobra's Anger in Afghanistan. ABV's are fitted with a plow and nearly 7,000 pounds of explosives. The Breachers are the Marines Corps' answer to the deadliest threat facing United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan, thousands of land mines and roadside bombs aka improvised explosive devices, that litter the Afghan Taliban region. The Breachers are metal monsters that look like a tank with a cannon, carry a 15-foot wide plow supported by metal skis that glide on the dirt, digging a safety lane through the numerous minefields laid by the Taliban. If there are too many mines, the Breachers can fire rockets carrying high grade C-4 explosive up to 150 yards forward, detonating the hidden bombs at a safe distance so that troops and vehicles can pass through safely. The detonations, over 1,700 pounds of Mine Clearing Line Charge, send a sheet fire into the air and shock waves rippling through the desert in all directions. Reporters watched the "Breacher" in action today as Marines edged closer to Marjah, a southern Taliban stronghold that NATO commanders plan to attack in the next days, in the largest joint NATO-Afghan operation of the Afghan war. Troops are expected to face a massive threat from mines and roadside bombs as they push into Marjah, 380 miles southwest of Kabul. "This may be the largest IED threat and largest minefield that NATO has ever faced," says Brig Gen. Larry Nicholson, Marines commander in southern Afghanistan. Several Breachers, including "The Joker" and its twin "Iceman", are being used in the Marjah assault. Military commanders hope they will make a huge difference as troops pierce through layer after layer of minefields circling the town. ABV's are a cross between a bulldozer and Abrams tank with a 1,500 horsepower turbine engine. Breachers are so valuable that they only travel along with a tank retrieval vehicle to drag them to safety if they are damaged.
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sky drum much above tower walking respondent once
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I wouldn't want to be sitting in there and getting hit with a RPG or anti tank round. You are sitting on a lot of C4
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used to clear mine off the road I think
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Actually, these were used in the Iraq invasion in 2003
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Nice ripoff of Enter Sandman for the music.
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that was no combat mission.
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2:33 WTF is that? cyborg pods?
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@ dus „dustoin1386“ toin
Those boxes were ejected to the back, before that they were used to shoot the explosive lines from. You can recognize them by the cover that stands up when shooting and was down in this case. -
Easy target for RPG-7:-)
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крутая хрень
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So it is basically a M1A2 Abrams outfitted with a plow and a modern day bangalore.
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toughest hazardous military jobs!
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A modified snow plower, great!
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nasty creatures.. I want to park this in my garages.
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SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN REAL HANDY ON D-DAY
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It's amazing to me how seemingly everyone knows a little something about everything but no one knows everything about anything?!?!!?? And altogether everyone is partly wrong. Please stick to facts, you can't change the world through fiction.....
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ALL THE GENERATIONS OF us PEOPLE knew war it s incredible how agressivs are those simple mind....but who can explain what is the rope we saw after the bomb get out ?like an umbilical cord?!!!!!
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Mr CrabTastingMan, please do some solid research into each of the US initiated wars before you make your rude and unwarranted commentary.
My posts on military matters are being tracked by your NSA people, as I could not edit my first reply to your comment I then realised I would have to delete it and start again with this new comment.