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The U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection
Добавлен 22 апр 2020
The U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection stores and maintains over 8,500 artifacts while we await a new museum building here at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
BAE Systems Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) Testbed Vehicle Arrives
The Armor & Cavalry Collection is excited to unveil our most recent arrival to the Tankodrome: the BAE Systems Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) testbed vehicle.
The U.S. Army's MPF program started in 2015 with the objective to field an armored fighting vehicle capable of providing direct fire support to lighter, non-armored maneuver units. In 2018, BAE and General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) were selected as finalists for the competition, and the Army ordered 12 testbed vehicles from each company. After Limited User Testing at Fort Bragg in 2021 through 2022, the GDLS MPF design was selected for production and fielding.
The organization that oversees the MPF Program, Program Executive Off...
The U.S. Army's MPF program started in 2015 with the objective to field an armored fighting vehicle capable of providing direct fire support to lighter, non-armored maneuver units. In 2018, BAE and General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) were selected as finalists for the competition, and the Army ordered 12 testbed vehicles from each company. After Limited User Testing at Fort Bragg in 2021 through 2022, the GDLS MPF design was selected for production and fielding.
The organization that oversees the MPF Program, Program Executive Off...
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Reinstalling Tiger 712's Tracks
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A year ago today, the staff and volunteers of the Collection gathered for a special event: reinstalling the tracks on our Tiger I after nearly a decade off. Here is a recap of that morning as the right side track went on. By the early afternoon, both tracks were installed and the Tiger was ready to move over to our new building, where it currently resides. The Collection's German Tiger I was re...
A (Quick) Walk Through The Tankodrome
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At the end of the summer of 2020, the Armor & Cavalry Training Support Facility (aka the Tankodrome*) was completed at Fort Benning, Georgia. In the nearly two years since, the small staff of three with volunteers and Soldier support have moved in 175 major pieces of Armor history with approximately two dozen more to still come. Since the spring of 2021, over 10,000 U.S. Army personnel have com...
2021: The Armor & Cavalry Collection Move Year in Review
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For many of us, 2021 has been a challenging year. Despite the hardships experienced, the Armor & Cavalry Collection perservered and continued the titanic move of historic armor pieces to our new facility, the "Tankodrome". This video captures the action, with the first images showing our starting point the first week of Janury 2021 to the final efforts the week of Christmas 2021. All of these e...
Reassembling the Last U.S. T28 Super Heavy Tank
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On 28 October 2020, the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection went to work to reassemble the T28 Super Heavy Tank (also known as the Gun Motor Carriage T95) into its full 90-ton, four-tracked configuration. The T28 will now reside in the new Armor Heritage Training Support Facility of the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection, its first indoor home ever. The T28 had been originally designed in Wo...
80th Anniversary of the WW2 U.S. Armored Force: Impromptu Tour! Tanks of the Armored Force
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Originally a Facebook Live presentation. The U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection's curator, Mr. Rob Cogan, takes you on an unrehearsed and impromptu virtual tour of some of the Collection's World War II tanks in honor of the 80th Anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Armored Force. After World War I, the National Defense Authorization Act of 1920 placed all Tanks in the U.S. Army under the I...
American Expeditionary Forces Tank Corps Demonstration, 22 April 1918
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Originally posted in 2018 as part of the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection's "Tank Corps 100" anniversary program to recognize the World War I U.S. Tank Corps. On 22 April 1918, newly-promoted Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton hosted the U.S. Army's General Staff College for a demonstration of his light tanks. The Army Signal Corps recorded this event, which you can now watch over a centur...