Big Picture: Armored Combat Power

Big Picture: Armored Combat Power - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2569657 / Local Identifier 111-TV-389 - DVD Copied by Katie Filbert - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). History of Armor and today's Armor Team examined on "THE BIG PICTURE" -- "Aggressively powerful, fast and mobile under all conditions, the Armor Team of the United States Army is a forceful deterrent to any would-be aggressor of the future." This is the theme in this week's episode of THE BIG PICTURE television series. This documentary follows the development of armor from early war chariot of four thousand years ago to modern tank in today's Army. The Armor Team as seen in this film is a deadly tentacle. It moves over the terrain, reaching deep into the heart of the enemy's forces, destroying pockets of resistance which have survived the atomic burst and supporting artillery fire. The emergence of the Armor Team on the field of combat has often decided the course of battle in modern war, and would decide it again if called upon. In armor there is strength and in strength there is victory.

[@doorguner01]

Cool finally a video of a m52 105mm SPG that my dad served on during his time in Germany 1962!

[@johndunn4228]

Best 4 years I ever spent blowing shit up.

[@erin19030]

I remember night firing n the tank range in Grafenwehr, Germany. The sky lot up with fiery explosions and the ground shook like an earthquake. Try sleeping thru that when you are camped near the tank range.

[@TheGrenadier97]

Ah, the good and old videos... modern high tech fellas will never do something like this.

[@user-mx2sv1xq2i]

Прикольное кино про Армию США времён 50 годов.

[@user-fi2ix7mr6i]

That hill never had a chance!!!!

[@Moredread25]

This is the "look at all the cool guns you can use if you join the army" episode.

[@forliberty8400]

That was beautiful

[@Moredread25]

I did not realize that the US army anticipated sending in forces immediately after atomic attacks. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near where a nuclear blast went off to take out entrenched troops for at least two weeks, which would probably still be really unhealthy.

[@petermiller9834]

22:12 lol as many questions as i would have had at that 'tactical' breifing...it was really kinda cut and dried. ..lol the artillery will fire WHAT ?

[@ferrador7077]

IRADOOOOOOOOOOO

[@shenghan9385]

The attacking armors and infantry following the atomic attack? Are they really attacking or just try to catch the nuclear fall out and die bravely?

[@thedeepspacevoid]

22.11 oh wait... what? lol k.

[@dewood9463]

In Vietnam we called the track with twin 40mm's were called Dusters.