M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle - Rock Hill, SC, USA
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N 34° 58.692 W 081° 03.839
17S E 494159 N 3870627
"M728 CEV is a military engineering vehicle based on an M60A1 Patton main battle tank chassis with a hydraulically operated dozer blade mounted on the front."
Waymark Code: WMVYNE
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2017
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"This effectively makes the M728 function as an armored bulldozer with an A-frame crane boom hinged on either side of the turret and a winch. Based on the chassis of the M60 Patton tank, the armament was changed from using the 105mm M68 rifled tank gun used on the standard M60/A1/A3 to a 165mm M135 short-barrelled demolition gun with 30 rounds of HEP (high explosive, plastic) ammunition. The M135 is a license-built copy of the 165 mm L9A1 gun that was used on the British Army's FV4003 Centurion Mk.5 AVRE (armored vehicle Royal Engineers) tank. Depending on the usage, the gun can be depressed and elevated against targets up to an effective range of 925 meters (1,012 yds).The gun's primary purpose is for clearing defensive fixtures and obstacles, such as walls, fences, roadblocks, and bunkers, or for destroying buildings and is generally not meant to be for use in anti-personnel or anti-tank warfare.
The main gun has a coaxial 7.62×51mm NATO M240 machine gun, with 2,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition. In addition, a .50 caliber M85 machine gun is mounted in the commander's cupola; this has 600 rounds of ammunition.
As an alternative to the mounted dozer blade, the vehicle can be equipped with a mine clearing rake for clearing land mines. In total, 291 M728 CEVs were produced"
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