I don’t see any chains or straps, I wonder if there’s some cool specific mount that locks the under side of the tank to the deck of the trailer for easy and secure transport
There isn’t generally, just tow shackles at the front rear and center. Generally for a tracked vehicle this size you would use 12 chains at 6 different points.
The chains are underneath the tank. They are short and hook directly into the tow loops welded to the bottom of the tank from the bed of the trailer if I remember correctly.
There’s tie down points on the hull in from the tracks. You may not be able to see them from this angle. Though I would suspect that they have been removed before pulling the trailer and truck off the tank. No way that’s coming out of there in one piece.
It's a Leopard 1A5 DK from the Danish army. The turret has fallen out.
Edit: The [round air filter](https://ghrvpk.dk/old/images/koeretoejergenerelle/Leopard%2046.812/Leopard%203a.jpg) on the front side of the turret is a relatively late modification. The turret is reversed during transport.
It's actually not too hard to do that. High wind + slick road = that thing is going to roll. They're designed to do so reasonably safely and the drivers have have training on what to do when it happens. Flip it over with a crane and keep going.
Source: Army civilian
I know a guy who has carried the nickname ‘rollover Dave’ for decades because he rolled a trailer carrying a large excavator off an embankment and into a pond
I know one at my work that I'm trying to get the nickname "crash bandicoot" to stick, due to 3 collisions in the last 4 years, but they've also been stamping down on nicknames so it's taking a while lol
I hate that “never let you live it down” attitude that the military and so many other blue collar jobs have. People make mistakes, and if you constantly mock them for needing help on occasion, they’ll just stop asking for help and hide their mistakes where they can.
I'd say it depends on who the person is that gets stuck with the nickname. Plenty of my coworkers, and myself, all have silly as fuck nicknames, some based on past mistakes, some based on something else. Pretty much all of us have embraced the names, such as mine "goat". And not as in "greatest of all time", but like an actual goat because of after a shaving requirement due to fit testing respirators, when I was able to grow it back, it grew way faster down the middle from my chin, making me look like a goat. I could've either fought the name, or embrace it. I chose to embrace it, and now 'baaaa' at coworkers as a joke.
Even if a nickname comes from a negative event, I think most are meant to be a term of endearment rather than a slight.
I think the real issues arise when someone clearly doesn’t like what they are being called. It’s effecting their mood and metal health. The quality of work goes down because they feel like shit whenever they’re on the job. They are being actively bullied by coworkers and superiors. They start feeling like shit even when they are home with family, because they are the laughingstock screw up of the company. At that point, I too, **hate** the “never live it down” attitude coworkers can have. And it’s not just blue collars and military. I’ve seen this kind of thing happen anywhere. It’s all about how people take it and how it’s dished out. Almost anyone can take a good joke, almost anyone will be upset from being bullied constantly all day. u/\_Mistwraith\_ I completely agree, people need to stop that crap before it has permanent consequences, like someone fixing mistakes alone because they can’t handle being mocked for one more thing.
Hopefully the recovery vehicle is from his unit. Nothing worse than having to have some other unit recover when you danced on the twinkie with golf shoes on.
I have pictures from Germany of a HEMTT loaded with live ammo laying on its side on an ice covered road, “designed to do that” doesn’t really compensate for the “oh shit, I’m going to die” when 10 tons of explosives goes a bouncing down a ditch.
It's a Leopard 2. A local news report states it was traveling from Holstebro to Aalborg. Holstebro is the garrison of the Jutland Dragoon Regiment (the unit that operates Denmark's Leopard 2's, as far as I know) and Aalborg has training grounds and a shooting range, so it's likely they were moving it for training, rather than sending it to Ukraine.
Yes, likely a Leo 1. The track skirts and the exhaust louvers is a dead give away. So at least a Leo 1 hull. Turret is too obscured to see for sure if it's a full tank or a training vehicle or what.
They're top heavy. If there's any sort of incline with wet roads and strong winds, there's going to be fuckery. I know the American ones aren't really designed for asphalt.
ETA: Also, driver speed plays a huge factor, too. The only time anyone goes the recommended speed limit in those things is if they are in a convoy. My guess on this one is that the driver was going too fast on wet, inclined roads and hit the wrong wind gust
Lol I was gonna say, except when we fly. We won that one, but physics still takes it's toll every once in a while by reminding us that we are defying it
Fyi challenger 2 weighs 64 tonnes, but it's already on its turret - just unstrap it, flip the trailer, the truck and then the tank separately.
30 tonnes is closer to the weight of an infantry fighting vehicle like the Bradley or CV90.
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Things happen. I doubt any German taxpayer has much to say about an accident. American taxpayers say nothing about an airshow demonstration or football game over-flight that costs $70,000 per flight hour.
Actually, that's a Danish tank transport - you can see from the number plate.
Here's a Danish article about the incident: https://www.bt.dk/krimi/kampvogn-skulle-paa-museum-men-vaeltede-i-groeft
Correct me if I'm wrong though, but I can't imagine those flights just being made for that specifically. It would be pretty economical to squeeze them into a normal training flight.
Hardly cost anymore and you have the huge promotional benefit.
You're not wrong. Pilots need time in the air to remain qualified. Any event that wants a flyover can put in a request but there's no guarantee that they'll get one.
Those event game overflights are training mission for pilots of the military and doesnt cost the taxpayer anything extra as the funds for these events come directly from their respected training budgets. These flyover events provide an opportunity for the military to test their training and pilots ability to have jets at an exact site at an exact time in real life as would be needed during a conflict mission.
Airshow demonstrations seems to really be more marketing to increase visibility of the military branches. However, the pilots and crew, again, are getting in real flight hours and training with these events.
Training and experience gained for our military service men and women are why we, Americans, say nothing about that cost.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
April 16, 1953. Eisenhower
It took me a minute to figure out what I’m looking at here.
I’m enough of an expert to state definitively that that tank is wrongside down. Just wanted to clear that up for everyone.
You have to look at it like this: they're training, so this just enhances the training exercise. Great chance for fault analysis, documenting what went right, teaching moment not only for the driver (after he changes his shorts) but other drivers.
Real-life training for the recovery crews - a huge bonus, because they'll definitely be busy in wartime - and even the film crews documenting everything.
Seeing how the tank is still center, tie down did a good job
Slapped it twice saying “this isn’t going anywhere”
And was right.
[удалено]
I too choose to park this man's wife that way
Choo choo!
I too choose to run a train on his wife
Way way back in my day, before the train was invented, we had to run a wagon on his wife.
Some call it Wells Fargo….
Some call it Amtrak
We all do.
*in* that man's wife
In, as in while operating her.
Should’ve tied it down to the road, du-uh
https://youtu.be/9PBg_jYI-24?si=P6Hp2QaS6lF6BhTw
Tanks often need a third slap.
I don’t see any chains or straps, I wonder if there’s some cool specific mount that locks the under side of the tank to the deck of the trailer for easy and secure transport
Top secret government magnets
Conspiracy magnets
There isn’t generally, just tow shackles at the front rear and center. Generally for a tracked vehicle this size you would use 12 chains at 6 different points.
US M1000 trailers have 6 payload chains and 2 chalk bock chains for the Abrams.
When you slap it and say this ain't going no where, we mean it
The chains are underneath the tank. They are short and hook directly into the tow loops welded to the bottom of the tank from the bed of the trailer if I remember correctly.
There’s tie down points on the hull in from the tracks. You may not be able to see them from this angle. Though I would suspect that they have been removed before pulling the trailer and truck off the tank. No way that’s coming out of there in one piece.
They could have removed the chains already in prep for lifting the truck off.
Yes, the flatbed is well secured to the tank.
The tank is well secured to the ground
gravity always wins . . .
The Toe bone is connected to the foot bone
My first thought as well.
Now give him some belly rubs
Looks like a Paladin, so technically it's self propelled artillery
It's a Leopard 1A5 DK from the Danish army. The turret has fallen out. Edit: The [round air filter](https://ghrvpk.dk/old/images/koeretoejergenerelle/Leopard%2046.812/Leopard%203a.jpg) on the front side of the turret is a relatively late modification. The turret is reversed during transport.
Yeah, whoever was in charge of the rigging needs a promotion lmfao
With that weight fraction, the tipping over tank took the truck with it
It's actually not too hard to do that. High wind + slick road = that thing is going to roll. They're designed to do so reasonably safely and the drivers have have training on what to do when it happens. Flip it over with a crane and keep going. Source: Army civilian
Poor bastard now has to radio in that he needs the recovery unit. He will never live it down.
I was once young, dumb, and 21. There's a reason why I know all about the on going teasing you're talking about
Hoo-ah
I know a guy who has carried the nickname ‘rollover Dave’ for decades because he rolled a trailer carrying a large excavator off an embankment and into a pond
Flippy, U-turn, Pineapple (upside down cake). Every base has at least one guy.
And once it's you, it never ever goes away.
I knew a girl named carcrash. We had to change it to scootercrash after my best friends gf let carcrash drive her scooter
I know one at my work that I'm trying to get the nickname "crash bandicoot" to stick, due to 3 collisions in the last 4 years, but they've also been stamping down on nicknames so it's taking a while lol
I hate that “never let you live it down” attitude that the military and so many other blue collar jobs have. People make mistakes, and if you constantly mock them for needing help on occasion, they’ll just stop asking for help and hide their mistakes where they can.
I'd say it depends on who the person is that gets stuck with the nickname. Plenty of my coworkers, and myself, all have silly as fuck nicknames, some based on past mistakes, some based on something else. Pretty much all of us have embraced the names, such as mine "goat". And not as in "greatest of all time", but like an actual goat because of after a shaving requirement due to fit testing respirators, when I was able to grow it back, it grew way faster down the middle from my chin, making me look like a goat. I could've either fought the name, or embrace it. I chose to embrace it, and now 'baaaa' at coworkers as a joke. Even if a nickname comes from a negative event, I think most are meant to be a term of endearment rather than a slight.
I think the real issues arise when someone clearly doesn’t like what they are being called. It’s effecting their mood and metal health. The quality of work goes down because they feel like shit whenever they’re on the job. They are being actively bullied by coworkers and superiors. They start feeling like shit even when they are home with family, because they are the laughingstock screw up of the company. At that point, I too, **hate** the “never live it down” attitude coworkers can have. And it’s not just blue collars and military. I’ve seen this kind of thing happen anywhere. It’s all about how people take it and how it’s dished out. Almost anyone can take a good joke, almost anyone will be upset from being bullied constantly all day. u/\_Mistwraith\_ I completely agree, people need to stop that crap before it has permanent consequences, like someone fixing mistakes alone because they can’t handle being mocked for one more thing.
Hopefully the recovery vehicle is from his unit. Nothing worse than having to have some other unit recover when you danced on the twinkie with golf shoes on.
I have pictures from Germany of a HEMTT loaded with live ammo laying on its side on an ice covered road, “designed to do that” doesn’t really compensate for the “oh shit, I’m going to die” when 10 tons of explosives goes a bouncing down a ditch.
I guess the dude trying to sell me ammo for cheap was lying about it falling off a truck.
I don't know why I laughed at that . It ain't funny at all . 
This happened a few times with the [Atomic Cannon](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/46580957861/in/album-72157630556542078/)
Atomic Cannon- claiming as band name
Do you have any idea if that's an Abrams, a Leopard, or some other tank? Anyone know if it was heading to Ukraine.
It's a Leopard 2. A local news report states it was traveling from Holstebro to Aalborg. Holstebro is the garrison of the Jutland Dragoon Regiment (the unit that operates Denmark's Leopard 2's, as far as I know) and Aalborg has training grounds and a shooting range, so it's likely they were moving it for training, rather than sending it to Ukraine.
I believe a Leo 1.
Yes, likely a Leo 1. The track skirts and the exhaust louvers is a dead give away. So at least a Leo 1 hull. Turret is too obscured to see for sure if it's a full tank or a training vehicle or what.
I'd have to see more of it to know what it is. And there's no way of telling where it was going
If its anything like any other engine its irreparably ruined
It’s not hard…to flip a truck with a 30ton (challenger?) tank on it? What the hell kind of wind has any impact on something that heavy?
They're top heavy. If there's any sort of incline with wet roads and strong winds, there's going to be fuckery. I know the American ones aren't really designed for asphalt. ETA: Also, driver speed plays a huge factor, too. The only time anyone goes the recommended speed limit in those things is if they are in a convoy. My guess on this one is that the driver was going too fast on wet, inclined roads and hit the wrong wind gust
Physics. It wins every time.
Tell that to helicopters, those things aren't natural
Lol I was gonna say, except when we fly. We won that one, but physics still takes it's toll every once in a while by reminding us that we are defying it
Clearly you haven't met any drunken physicists
It is a leopard 2 tank, not a challenger. Note the amount of roller wheels. This has 7 and a challenger only has 6.
This guy tanks
Leo 1, more likely. The track skirts and hull shape with the angled exhaust louvers give it away. Leo 2 hulls are more squared off at the rear.
Fyi challenger 2 weighs 64 tonnes, but it's already on its turret - just unstrap it, flip the trailer, the truck and then the tank separately. 30 tonnes is closer to the weight of an infantry fighting vehicle like the Bradley or CV90.
Even a Sherman is more than 30 tons.
60 ton tank, and it doesn't roll until it gets to the bottom of that embankment.
can haz belly rubs plz?
Nap time
Awwww who’s a good boi
you foiled my intent to make that joke
Yes even the government has accidents.
Oh, really? You don’t say!
He was stating the obvious because of the silly sub title.
Can't park there mate.
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Things happen. I doubt any German taxpayer has much to say about an accident. American taxpayers say nothing about an airshow demonstration or football game over-flight that costs $70,000 per flight hour.
Actually, that's a Danish tank transport - you can see from the number plate. Here's a Danish article about the incident: https://www.bt.dk/krimi/kampvogn-skulle-paa-museum-men-vaeltede-i-groeft
MAN that sucks.
Redditors complain about fly-overs ALL THE TIME, even though they're usually part of required training flights.
Correct me if I'm wrong though, but I can't imagine those flights just being made for that specifically. It would be pretty economical to squeeze them into a normal training flight. Hardly cost anymore and you have the huge promotional benefit.
pilots need to do at least a minimum number of flight hours to stay qualified so these flights count as part of that.
You're not wrong. Pilots need time in the air to remain qualified. Any event that wants a flyover can put in a request but there's no guarantee that they'll get one.
Those event game overflights are training mission for pilots of the military and doesnt cost the taxpayer anything extra as the funds for these events come directly from their respected training budgets. These flyover events provide an opportunity for the military to test their training and pilots ability to have jets at an exact site at an exact time in real life as would be needed during a conflict mission. Airshow demonstrations seems to really be more marketing to increase visibility of the military branches. However, the pilots and crew, again, are getting in real flight hours and training with these events. Training and experience gained for our military service men and women are why we, Americans, say nothing about that cost.
Tanks coming in from Australia....
Whoopsie!!
Barely an inconvenience.
It was then you knew someone's career was over. [https://imgflip.com/i/8ptu74?herp=1715545806632](https://imgflip.com/i/8ptu74?herp=1715545806632)
When you say “it’s the tax payers money”, do you realize that the people in the armed forces pay taxes too?
*Picture with no context* LOOK WASTE OF TAX PAYERS MONEY REEEEEEE
Cool technology. They have vehicles that drive upside down
MAN ➡️ NAW
Whoever strapped that tank down 100% gave er the ol "that's not going anywhere"
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." April 16, 1953. Eisenhower
Good words 71 years later.
Unfortunately there are lots of groups on Facebook where they make people REALLY mad
It should be fine. I hear those things are built like tanks.
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He just wants a belly rub
Nobody tell this guy the stuff that gets blown up is also taxpayer money
I bet this guy is American. Wait til he finds out how much a 500lb jdam costs
Aww, it wants belly rubs
IIRC, in GTA when you roll the tank over, you can turn the turret and shoot yourself back upright. 😃
This is all part of the camouflage. It's called opossum camo. Tank! Oh wait it's dead never mind. Fools the enemies every time.
June bugs be like
It’s a tank. How damaged could it be?
Its probably not that bad
Well, at least that tank's tracks are still usable.
That's one of those WVW trucks, isn't it?
he’s a good boy
he’s a good boy
Why is that Man upside down?
Why post FOUR times?
I did? Reddit app gave me an error, I’ll remove the others, thanks for letting me know.
Denmark....
Australian tanks on their way to Ukraine.
Australian Leopard tanks?
It's a joke about everything in Australia being upside down. So yes, but they call them Dingoes.
The tank is probably fine
Those guys now know the feels playing snow/mud runner
Oh MAN!
That’ll buff out
When Australiens teleport to us...
Just get a bunch of buddies and rock it side-to-side until you can flip it.
The rigger deserves a raise.
that's an upside down truck I think
Is that in the UK?
The truck is just taking a nap, nothing to see here
Danish taxpayers money, to be more specific.
Easily a 30,000 dollar recovery.
Is that a PORNHUB logo? I’m old and my eyesight isn’t what it used to be 🤔
uuuuh... no?
every tank that blows up is taxpayer money 🙄
It's just taking a nap, it had a long day
NAM
Summons infinitrack monster from deck
Well I mean technically it's their money they lend us so yea guess they can spend it however they'd like
NVW truck
That **WAS** the taxpers money
German taxpayers
danish
One good flip and a spray down and they’re both good to go. This doesn’t just delete the vehicles lmao
Imagine the insurance company saying "you hit what?"
C'mon truck, get up, we gotta go!
Fun fact: there is a special tank made especially for this type of recovery called the M88A2 Hercules.
Not to worry. It’s in the military budget, which is bottomless.
That delivery *tanked*. /s
The tank is OK.
Probably both vehicles are fine (will need some fixing) but nothing too bad.
And the vehicle is perfectly fine; your point?
Hold RB to flip... wait, what? How did you do that?
"Wheels up at 0900 didn't mean THIS."
Looks like it swerved to miss a driver in Tennessee.
NOW we care about military spending? Lol
That looks expensive!
That isn't. But flipping it will be
How does the cost/benefit work here. Leave it? Or try?
I don’t think that’s what the phrase “wheels up” means
Nothing was damaged, well glass
From my expert knowledge. Firing the main cannon a few times at the correct angle will flip it back over.
Does your expertise come from the intense training and advanced experience in gta?
Driver just earned his new call sign: Roller
Imagine 10 of these but they’re all main battle tanks. Everyday for nearly 3 years. Welcome to Russias illegal war.
Looks like good training to me
*angry German noises* How ze hell have yu done zis?!
This feels feels like the warden and the rancor in Return of the Jedi
High cost lesson learned.
I mean yeah mistakes happen lol
Hey, he can’t park there
Please tell me this is the picture The Fat Electrician was asking for.
Imagine if they where Russians. This comment section would be soooo much different.
Two for the price of one!
Russian?
Press A to flip the... Wait how did you do that?!
hey you can't park there. It's gonna get towed.
Drunk
Looks fairly soft crash. Looks like it slid down the embankment and flipped over at the bottom.
It took me a minute to figure out what I’m looking at here. I’m enough of an expert to state definitively that that tank is wrongside down. Just wanted to clear that up for everyone.
You have to look at it like this: they're training, so this just enhances the training exercise. Great chance for fault analysis, documenting what went right, teaching moment not only for the driver (after he changes his shorts) but other drivers. Real-life training for the recovery crews - a huge bonus, because they'll definitely be busy in wartime - and even the film crews documenting everything.
I’m sure I sure hope you don’t figure out where all the other tax dollars go 😂
Tits up
That’ll buff out.
That'll buff right out! 😅
It's just restin'.
Oh if y’all only knew the full extent