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People are going to watch YouTube videos about tanks and think they learned something.
They will be wrong.
While the M60 machine gun was offered as a solenoid fired variant in the M60E2, none were adopted.
Listening to the same dude from Australia repeat that the M60 was used in the... uh... M60 drives me nuts.
Battlefield Vegas doesn't have a coaxial gun and their M60A1 RISE clearly has the cradle for an M240.
Ask. Me. How. I. Know.
By the way, it's not the M240C. The M240C feeds from the right side of the gun. You find those in Bradleys. The tank version of the gun is M240. Feeds from the left.
Ask. Me. How. I. Know.
Prior to the M240 there was the M219 aka M73A1. Prior to that there was the M73.
Thus ends the list of coaxial machine guns used in US M60 tanks.
Just to head off the, "maybe he got it confused with the M48," crowd.
The M48 starts with the .30-06 M37 machine gun and when it's finally upgraded to the M48A5 standard, it's gets saddled with the M219.
Even worse is his "history" and mention of the cupola.
The M60 has a .50 in that cupola, the M85.
He goes on to show lots of the mods made to M48A3's in Vietnam, including one where they removed the gun from the cupola and mounted it to a pintle on top of the cupola.
Did you know the MG in the cupola was an M2HB?
He doesn't.
It ticks me off because even War Thunder gets this stuff right and it only takes a couple of minutes to find it out.
I will say that most youtube channels I wouldn't think of as being sources of correct information, just like I don't think of any journalist of knowing the truth about anything they're "reporting" on.
ReplyDeleteI do believe I have a minority opinion, from my observations. PT Barnum was a pessimist in his statement on the frequency of idiots being born.
But I will say that I appreciate when you go on these mini rants about people being wrong, because they give me many things to research. Even if I forget the details later, I feel enriched by the research.
Long winded way of saying "thank you, Angus, for giving me and others the benefit of your knowledge." Especially on this 250th anniversary of the founding of your service.
It's not the usual day for it, but thank you for your service to your country. I appreciate it.