Originally Posted by DAYCLONA
Originally Posted by dart4forte
Damn, I did M1 tanks for 7 years and they paid me to do it.




My employer produced the Abrams M1/M1A1/M1A2 turret electronics for Chrysler Defense, also sole supplier, I was the only employee gifted to handle the task start to finish, phenomenal volume of work for years...hope the system performed in the field as intended?.....and they paid me to do it!..lol!

I was also developing the sensor material at the same time for my employer for Chrysler's future air bag technology/production..... Ahhh the days when we actually made stuff in this country!


Mike


Worked pretty good. Of course the fire control systems on the newer vehicals are far superior. The -10 operators manual back then was in two volumes. I would imagine now with everything digital it’s probably 5 volumes. My only complaint was boresighting was often a tedious task. Know some guys back during desert Storm on M1A1s who scored hits while moving at almost 3000 meters.

Did you work at the Lima facility? My brother was a procurement NCO there in the late 80s.

Last edited by dart4forte; 11/26/20 12:01 AM.
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