Soldiers Tank vs Barbed Wire. #shorts#army

[geromegalindo]

As a retired tanker on the M1A2, the wire wins 💯. Good thing engineers are on our side.

[ncjoker]

I was an anti-tank infantryman. Our wire was our first line defense. We were out training one week, and we had set up a large-scale scenario that stretched miles across. Range control knew, and all should have been well. Until an unknown high-ranking officer decided that he knew a shortcut across the training area. We stayed in our position and watched one single high-ranking officer spend 4 hours in one spot in his shortcut using a Leatherman to remove wire. Great night of training.

[DeepPurpleAreAnOkBand]

The only poll where people got the right answer was Coastguard vs Dried up Lake.

[DaHuntsman]

as a former 12B combat engineer, the moment he started talking about the eleven strand (or eleven row, really its interchangeable as long as its eleven) it warmed my cold dead heart

[er]

I was a M551 tanker, never ran across barbwire, but picked up some commo wire. Didn't stop us but a major pain getting it off!

[redhawk]

Though in WW1, the tracks were completely different, with no gap for the wire to slip into to and get tangled.

[thecrickett]

I had armor plates ripped off the side of my Bradley when I ran over wrapped up wire hidden in tall grass.

[blaisegg]

Former 12B here too. 11 strand and triple standard are 2 different things. Also, the barbed wire isn't what would cause the tanks to get caught, the barbed wire was to tie the concertina wire to the pickets and give it strength. It is the coils of concertina that get caught in the drive sprockets.

[doctorverruckt]

Anybody who has worked around any tracked vehicle, tank or dozer, knows that fence wire of any kind is not good to run over.
In one case, the enemy will kill you.
In the other case, the forman will kill you...

[chuckboise]

I was in a tank breaching platoon in Korea 2/72 Armor 1ID 94/95. We had the old XM1Ps at the time. My tank had a mine roller, and our other tanks had mine ploughs One tank actually had mechanics shop custom made wire cutting antlers. Tanks can easily penetrate multiple strands of concertina wire, but you have to spend hours and hours immediately after breaching wire defenses removing the wound-up wire from the track before it ruins the grease seals and starts bending stuff in the track. Did it more times than I cared for.

[thundervalley]

I was a heavy equipment operator. I got assigned to a light engineer unit in the first ID. Went to sapper school out of boredom. Got me promoted when I got back! Good videos! Keep ‘em up

[tomclark]

It's called concertina wire because you don't unroll it, you pull out the last coil, and the rest of the pack follows, looks like a squeeze box accordion. During night evasion, I was running through a field and my pant leg got hooked up on a coil on the ground. The roll uncoiled following me down a hill and cut the hell out of me.

[williamsimmons]

Being an ARMY welder really sucks when you have to repair tracks that have run over that stuff and broken something.

[SiriusMined]

I knew a guy that was in 24th Mechanized Infantry during the Gulf War. He was in an AIFV (Bradley), and they were taking the lead track assaulting an airbase. The driver was overly excited, and tried to drive through the chain link fence, only to have it twist up into the tracks and render them stuck. The whole column was tied up.

He jumped out and helped pull the fencing out of the tracks as the driver backed them vehicle up. Under fire.

He was awarded a Bronze Star for his actions (he showed it to me, along with the backing paperwork).

It really messed him up though.

[timothyhays]

You should see what a bed mattress does to a trash truck when it drives over it. I believe any large amount of tangle wire could take out a tank.

[sonicthebomb]

Former 1371 combat engineer 🙌🏾 love seeing this piece of knowledge

[elizabethbottroff]

Back in '91, my folks bought a piece of farmland. Dad started to clear out a ditch area, near a berm at the edge of a field. Unfortunately, he accidentally found an old farmer's buried dumpsite.

It was quite startling to hear the sudden change in the sounds of the CAT loader.

Fortunately, Dad had noticed in time, and backed out quickly.

We tossed a tarp underneath the CAT. With both Dad & I on our backs, working underneath the loader, we carefully and meticulously began pulling and clipping away baling wire.

We saved the worst for last. It took both of us. Some of the baling wire had wound up the drive shaft, and had begun to work its way up under the bearing cap.

Hours later, Dad and I were finally finished. We had escaped damage. Dad had stopped the machine just in time. One more turn of the drive shaft would have resulted in horrendous expenses.

Our entanglement was old, rusty, yet smooth, baling wire, wrapping over mostly smooth metal. I can't fathom the mess that barbed wire into tracks, etc would have been. Catastrophic.

The wire always wins.

[johnmurkwater]

When I was a kid I witnessed a bulldozer get crippled by an old box spring mattress at the dump... Springy wire is the devil.

[ericspears]

As a retired OPFOR, we used to make simple tank traps with single row wire and Telephone poles combined with AT Mines and had a 82mm mortar team plotted on that tank trap.

[flowerhana__]

The tank wasn't made for barbed wire, silly gooses! It was made for men!