Yes, if emergency mode doesn’t resolve the issue then you go to manual mode.
Even with the turret floor bent upward, drivers hatch blown off HDB setting sideways behind the remnants of the drivers seatback, roadwheel and arm torn from the tank, 100 percent electrical power failure and the right front fender now stationed on top of the commanders hatch all while still on the move.
You can even manually fire the coax by pulling the trigger by hand.
At least on June 7th 2007 it did.
… this sounds like you talking from experience and sounds like a heck of a story.
Hell of a night.
IED or enemy anti tank?
Large buried IED wit homemade explosives. Hit us in the belly just behind the driver position. Estimate of 400 lbs in a 55 gallon drum. We probably only survived because it was buried to deep.
Did the driver make it though? Hell of an explosive to have go off under you
Yeah, everyone survived. The hatch blowing off probably saved us by letting the air pressure escape.
Knocked the driver and myself out for a short time, driver had a bad cut on the elbow, the LT almost got hit with the fender when it landed on the TC hatch.
That’s nuts. God literally said it aint yalls time. Absolutely crazy.
They both work the same. The only change is the gun and breach between the two and changes to minor parts to accommodate the weight change. Everything described in the post were also on the 120mm Abrams.