So an Abrams needs about 96 gallons of oils and lubricants to work. How often do they need to be changed?
Source: https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/1676552/mctp-3-10b-formerly-mcwp-3-12/
How heavy is the logistics of a tank?
can't wait to see 300 replies of complete bullshit and boomer lore about turbine engines
I feel you Chinese man, I feel you.
AAHHAHA wait till they read about the 504.4 gallons of fuel on board
How the fuck do you figure it has 96 gallons of oil in it?
MCTP 3-10B page 61
It's in the manual
>Engine lubrication oil tank (refill, approximate): 17 quarts.
Now I'm not up the unit conversion but I'm sure 17 quarts is less than 96 fucking gallons of oil.
Engine Turbo shaft 25 quarts
Transmission 15/40 weight 45 gallons
Final drives 15/40 weight 5.5 quarts
Suspension/shocks Turbo shaft 30.6 quarts
Suspension/hubs 15/40 weight 20 quarts
Hydraulic system FRH 20 gallons
Recoil mechanism FRH 10.3 gallons
>Final drives 15/40 weight 5.5 quarts
That's surprisingly low. Final drives on agricultural and construction equipment usually hold a fuck of a lot more than that. I used to run a D6 cat, it tool 3.5 gallons in the final drive, per side.
>25 quarts for 1500hp
That's actually very little lube in comparison to a diesel. The MTU 883 uses a little over 21 gallons and oil is also the kidneys of tank engines (yeah I know it sounds weird) since they have to absorb any of the blow-by residuals that make it past the piston rings.
pretty much these here:
>there's other manuals or maintenance SOPs and likely updated ones that may or may not be much good, the basic TM and SM for the M1 is always the baseline however
>contractors do short tours with line unit's maintenance teams before or after deployments/fieldXs or mass services just in case, they are very bored men and drink as much as the enlisted
Furthermore:
Each area of POL is checked during daily PMCS, if it is starting to look 'off', you get a sample tested to see how bad it is or what has changed and start correcting it. As usual, you cross reference the hours clocked on the tank itself. Not a big deal and a slight change in monotony. Hydraulics are always doing something weird in ANY mil vehicle no matter how tip-top you are.
Services are when you are more likely to just flush and replace ALL POL, although the maintenance team chief MAY let some components on SOME vics ride as-is if the last POL replace was recent/hours haven't been heavy/work load wasn't or not expected to be intense/or if the unit budget is just fucked(by them, the CO, or whatever). Sometimes you CAN just schedule your regular fluid changes when in between mass services or recovery but some changes may be postponed because they are actually still acceptable(yes, some tanks just run really well). Services are almost always done before and after a fieldX or deployment because that's when critical parts are breaking that are connected to a hydraulic line and that's just taken into account. It's not that fluid needs to be changed, it's that some other critical system can break and then you have to take out the hydraulic system too since it's all one big circuit. Hours and mileage for tracks are logged as well since those can literally explode if you haven't done tensioning right or kept using "expired" ones.
tl;dr: you put more HOURS than mileage in tank use. How often does POL need changing? How fucked are your vics parts and mnt team?
Because I've read that the Abrams needs 8 to 10 hours of maintenance per 1 hour of operation
So, an average?
By knowing just enough about mechanics to think you know anything about a military vehicle and then completely misinterpreting information about it.
>MCTP 3-10B page 61
The link
i just take it in to Jiffylube when the stick says so
We also have tools in imperial units in Europe, just in case.
Did you make that specifically for this thread? Jesus
I can only hope this is a joke, I genuinely hope you aren’t this fucked in the head.
What are trying to convey here?
Schizophrenic delusions and massive retardation
I mean he is not wrong
Really need to lose the peasant units. We almost did, but of course Reagan fucked it up. He gave the task of deciding if we should convert to metric to two retards, one of whom is remorseful about saying “LOL NO.” …which makes him even more contemptible than the other one, a grown man should not need decades to rethink his decision if ot was informed. But of course it was not informed, which is why he finally got second-thoughts. Idiot swine.
Responding to yourself is embarrassing
I think the US should adopt metric when Euros adopt metric time.
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t. europoor
My conservative guess is one regular Hemmit trailer’s worth of things per tank: lubricants, tracks, wheels, engine and transmission parts, various bits and tools. But the Abrams is really mature so possibly much less is needed and lots of things can be consolidated into fewer loads and kept in a depot instead of in the logistics train following the tanks — ie, 1 truck handles 2 or 3 tanks. Not counting fuel but I assume all Army vehicles run on the same stuff now so that’s a shared logistics burden and I have no idea how that spreads across an entire armor brigade.
>that telegram bookmark
kek
you just posted this on reddit
metric is the digital clock of measurements
>waaah inches are too complicated
shut up gays