[Taltarzac725]

Drive a Tank at Tank America in Orlando Florida

I saw this other week on a CBS local news segment.

Here is an earlier segment about it from 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IjrKp4qUo

[Indy-Guy]

I would do this if they would bring one to The Villages for me to drive. The first place I would go is the roundabouts on Morse and Buena Vista Blvd. Then I would go looking for the vehicles we see in the Bad Parking photos.

[manaboutown]

I know a Marine who drove tanks in the Middle East during several tours who could give tank driving lessons for sure. His father had an old Mercedes Benz diesel station wagon this fellow learned to drive. It was old, had two or three hundred thousand miles on it and had to be tinkered with constantly to keep it going. Turned out that was probably good training as in Iraq the tank he was driving stalled as five enemy tanks were coming up over the dunes and turning their guns on his tank. Well, he got it going; he and his crew took out all five enemy tanks.

BTW Arnold Schwarzenegger drove a tank in the Austrian army. He could likely give lessons, too.

[Number 10 GI]

I was assigned to a Combat Engineer Bridge company in Korea as a dozer operator. During a field training exercise, I got to drive an old gasoline powered M48 AVLB tank. The acronym is for Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge. It is a tank that has had the gun turret removed and had mounting hardware modifications for a folding bridge. It was a hoot driving through old rice paddies in the DMZ area! The M48 was Korean War vintage, so it was crude and extremely noisy. Modern tanks are much more oriented towards crew comfort. If you get the chance to drive one, do it.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Drive a Tank at Tank America in Orlando Florida

I saw this other week on a CBS local news segment.

Here is an earlier segment about it from 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IjrKp4qUo

Looks like it could be fun but thinking want to be able to fire a gun for that money.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Looks like it could be fun but thinking want to be able to fire a gun for that money.

In the segment I saw a few days ago the man said that their tank fired projectiles up to 9 miles. And the do not own that much of a plot! That is if it could still shoot.