Tank time
THAT' S RIGHT!! DEVIL DOG IS GOING FOR A RIDE. 
Your welcome, oh and *insert reason for not posting here*
I know Big Mac is slightly OOC with the whole actually saying more than one word thing.
Next chapter Princess things
I walked back to Twilight's castle or home, either will do. I was alone, but I didn't mind, besides Rarity had to finish up an order for a big client or something. My gut was telling me that most, if not all, of the other girls left and as the saying goes 'Sixty percent of the time, it works all the time.'. I looked up at the summer sky and saw a couple of pegasi moving clouds around, giving the sky a partly cloudy look. I walked over to a bench, took a seat and watched them. It was weird how they could just 'do' the weather, I mean if I had control of the weather it would be nothing but sixty degrees and partly cloudy; I guess a day of rain here and there.
"Howdy Dan." Big Mac said, a piece of wheat hanging out his mouth. How he could be dead silent, while six and a half feet tall and built like a brick shithouse was beyond me. But I was distracted so, I'll let it slide.
"Hey Big Mac. What's up?"
"Nothin' much, jus' picking up some food. What about you?"
"Watching the pegasi work." I said, pointing in their general direction.
He cocked an eyebrow at me. "What?" I asked, "On Earth, the weather controls itself so seeing peo- ponies moving the weather around is new to me."
"Really? Mighty strange world ya lived on." He said before quickly adding "No offense."
"Strange is a relative term, to me the weather moving itself is normal." I said, he just 'hmmm', said goodbye and left. I figured I should probably do the same and go meet up with Twilight or something. I still had to find a job and find a place to live, the tank could handle the second part for now.
I stood in front of the door trying to figure what to do. Do I knock? Do I walk in? The locals call it a castle, except for the fact that's it's massive, there are no moats or drawbridges leading to a one out of ten on the castle scale. I've never been to a castle, but they usually have guards outside of them and there is a distinct lack of guards here. I'll play it safe and knocked . I waited a minute and Twilight answered the door.
"Hey Dan," she said "C'mon on in." She waved me in.
"Thanks Twilight." I said, my gut was right on that everyone had left, leaving me and her alone.
"How was Rarity's?" She asked
"You mean after the fact I was half-dragged through town? Not bad, got a new set of clothes so I can't complain. What'd you do?"
"Cleaned up after the girls left. I have a question, if you don't mind." She said
"Go ahead."
"Would it be possible to see you use the tank?" She asked, the way she said it was weird but whatever.
"You mean like me driving it around somewhere?" I asked to double check.
"No, no." She said quietly "Like the cannon being used."
"I've never fired the cannon before, but yeah, not like I have anything better to do. Is there someplace far from town we can go for it?" I didn't want to ruin the early morning atmosphere, but even a mile away the cannon would still be heard.
She rubbed her chin for a moment, "How about Ghastly Gorge?"
"I don't know where that is, but why not. I'll just need you to give me directions." I said and we left the castle. A few steps away from the castle doors, a gray and blue blur slammed, slid and stopped in front of us.
"Are you okay Ditzy?" Twilight asked the pegasus woman who wiped out.
"I'm fine!" Ditzy said, while standing. She had golden eyes, which I noticed were looking in two different directions, grey fur and blonde hair. Her outfit reminded me of a mailman and the bag filled with what appeared to be letters only confirmed my thoughts. She handed Twilight a letter, who floated back inside, and the mailwoman took off, flying haphazardly.
I climbed in, while Twilight tried to use her magic, the bow gunner hatch rose a few inches, before being dropped back down.
Twilight was completely stupefied by that. "I'm the Element of Magic for Celestia sake!" She said "Why didn't my magic work." She asked me, I just raised my hands.
"Don't ask me, I'm from a magic free world."
"That's it!" She cried out "maybe my magic doesn't work because this has no magic in it."
"You lost me here, how can it have magic in it?"
"Think of it like...." She began to say "fishing, pretend my horn is the pole and the object or pony is the fish."
"So you tie string around your horn and bait them?" I joked
"Wha- No! I mean like my horn has a hook and the object has a hole, the 'hook' goes in the 'hole' and would bring it towards me. But your tank would have no holes." She explained, the fishing metaphor helped.
"So I'm immune to magic?" I asked
"Maybe, perhaps you may need more time on Equis, or you have a strong resistance to magic." She suggested
"Cool." I said, as she opened the hatch and climbed in.
We've been driving for a few minutes, I followed her directions. Most ponies stared at the tank as we rumbled down the roads.
"Over the next hill and we'l-" CLANG! Something slammed into the turret, I hope it wasn't that clutzy mailwoman I see around town. The turret hatch opened up, pouring sunlight in.
"Hey guys!" Dash said, as she sat in the commander's seat "What's up?"
"Dan's going to show me how his tank works." Twilight explained
"No fair!" Dash cried "Did you make him do it because you're a princess?"
I looked at Twilight "You're a princess? This never crossed anyone's mind to tell me that."
"I don't like to brag about it." Twilight said
"I'm a human and I don't go bragging about that. What are you the princess of? Don't Princess Celestia and Princess Luna run the country?"
"Yes, but they're also Princess of Day and Night, respectively. My sister in law, Princess Cadence is the Princess of Love."
"And what are you? Are you a princess because you have a horn and wings?"
"Friendship and no, I became a princess when I after I unlocked the chest of Harmony and deafted Tirek." Twilight explained. "We're here!" I'll have to ask about all that other stuff she mentioned.
I crawled back to the gunner's seat and looked through the gun sight, the gorge was nothing special, just a big ass crack in the surface and some odd holes in the walls, probably from mining.
"Where should I sit?" Twilight asked. This is a three man turret, and I needed the loader's seat now and the gunner's seat in a moment.
"Just wait a moment while I decide what to shoot." I said. Armor piercing shells would do nothing against rock, other than make a new hole. High explosive would be the best bet and white phosphorus was ruled out entirely.
I realized that I have a finite supply of shells; maybe. The machine guns are infinite, but only after night, otherwise I stuck with an empty smooth box. Maybe the shells are like the ammo boxes and reload when no one is looking or I have a limit on them. I otherwise would have turned my extremely limited knowledge on magic and assumed there is a duplication spell, except magic wouldn't work on any of my stuff.
"One HE shell coming up." I muttered to myself. The issue was the breech was still closed
"Hey Dash?"
"Yea"
"Can you pull that gray handle for me please?" I asked. The breech opened and I slid the shell into the cannon. I never fired the cannon before, so this was all new to me. I told Twilight that she can join us in the turret. I have a brief explanation of each type of shell. I looked through the gun sights and lowered the cannon down a little to line up on the line.
"There's two buttons, one fires the coax thirty cal and the other fires the cannon." I said, talking about the little box the gunner steps on to fire with. I tried one and received a short burst from the machine gun. I noticed the girls' ears lowered slightly in reaction to the noise.
"Oh and cover your ears and keep your hands away from the back of the turret." I said, covering mine "On the way!" I yelled and stepped on the correct button. The tank jerked backwards and the shell casing flew out as the breech came backwards as well. My ears were ringing a little and the girls had their ears still covered.
That.... was.... AWESOME!!" Dash shouted, wincing a little at her own loud voice. I looked into the sights, only to see a cloud of smoke and dust rising from the canyon wall. I slid back down to the driver seat, I glanced at the gas tank dial or whatever it's called. It was three-quarters full, which isn't all that worrisome, yet. I didn't know what type of gas the tank runs on. Is it high-grade diesel? The M1 Abrams use jet fuel, which is badass.
"Homeward bound?" I asked
"Yep." Twilight said. I spin around and left my mark on the world behind Ha! Get it. Mark and it's a shellhole I thought to myself.
I heard a ringtone go off, I almost reached for mine until I remembered that I had no service due to a distinct lack of Verizon cell towers on the planet. Another ringtone joined in, the two went back and forth a few times, except the typing sounds effect, like when your phone isn't on vibrate or silent, except it was more typewriter like, but my ears were still ringing a little bit so I chalked it up as ear pain.
"Is everyone gonna wonder what that loud boom was, 'cause we didn't go very far from town." I said
"We should be fine, everypony will think it was Pinkie and her party cannon." Twilight said
"Her what?"
"Pinkie has a canon she uses from time to time to quickly set up parties." She explained, I vaguely recalled hearing a 'boom' of some sort prior to my party on my first day in town.
"Yea!" Dash said "I wouldn't be surprised if she threw a party for you because of this."
"Excellent, now I have to drive back and forth showing off the gun, until I run out of gas or tank shells." I said, I was still trying to understand why I got sent here with this thing. I like history, especially World War Two, but I'm not from that time period so either someone from the 1940s should be here or my tank should be an Abrams.
Regardless, I'm not at home, which is the main thing.
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7383770
Not necessarily, all T-34 models were classified as medium tanks. The 34/76 models are almost the same weight as the 34/85 models, which only had a .9 ton difference. The most notable difference is the size of the tank gun. A 76.2mm gun when compared to a 85mm gun.
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If your going to use a Russian model, I'd suggest a t-44 (Also classified as a medium model)) as they have improved cross country preformance, ((Which is going to be important without the paved roads)), not to mention better armor and speed in general.
Short 3-5 round bursts will solve your over heating problem. They did indeed run on diesel, jp8 is the fuel that the Abrams runs on is also a type of diesel.
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I was considering the t-44 or t-43, but I chose the t-34 because of name recognition
Umm..... At no point in any mass-produced Sherman variety, either WWII, Korea, M50/M51 Super Sherman, any from the French, any British modifications, Soviet, post-war Japanese, Lebanese, Israeli, Jordinian, Chinese (both Republic and People's Republic), Chilean - any of them, had a .50 co-axial MG mounted - it simply wouldn't fit. They all had either an M1919A4 (or rarely an M1919A6) mounted co-ax and on the front plate manned by the assistant driver, and some had an M2HB .50 Browning mounted above the Commander's cupola hatch for the purpose of anti-aircraft firing (initially) and target-marking (a common tactic employed by many M4 crews of various nations).
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I could've sworn I typed thirty, thanks for the notice. Needless to say
The M4 series tank (with the exception of one variant used mostly by the USMC) were all gasoline powered. Also M1919s and M2s dont heat up that quickly, in fact just range qual with the M2s we put about a thousand rounds through each weapon before we let em cool off. And we only did that for about 20 minutes with no barrel change. Hell we put a combined 20 thousand rounds through 3 guns and didnt change the barrels once. And if you think its due to upgrades. There have been only 3 upgrades to the M2 since it was created in the 30s. A safety, plastic grips, And quick change barrel (old method had you unscrew it to remove, the QC just has you push back, rotate quarter turn, then pull). In fact older ammunition has a lower muzzle velocity, which means the barrels wouldnt heat up as quickly as they do now
7401787
I know they take a while to overheat, but I'm taking the cheap way here and making them with infinite ammo, but the drawback of being used in short bursts.
7401864 I would have still made him have to reload, like the ammo cans replenish overnight or something. I mean its not really a draw back having to use short bursts since you have to to get any accuracy anyway.
7401864 Also fun fact:A version of the Sherman know as the M-50 and M-51 "super Sherman" were used primarily by the Israeli Defense Force up until the 1980s, Although it did see use by other orces such as Chile, and some Lebanese Militias.
7401989
That is a good idea, I'm going to use that.
I have heard of the Super Sherman. Another interesting fact is that Paraguay, used M3 Stuarts until 2002
he someone to help with that tank.
7402069 And Venizuala still has around 70 M18 hellcats in reserve service
7402069 But if you have any questions about firearms I'll be glad to help you out.
Twilight become a princess back in the season 3 finale. She was a princess all the way through season 4 until season 4 finale where she then fought tirek and unlocked the chest which then gave her a castle.
Also, Derpy being called Ditzy is kinda annoying. But Im used to her being called Derpy by almost everyone who knew her before the 100th episode which is where she got her "Offical" name.
Why no White phosphorus? That stuff is really cool! Other than glow jaw and the toxic fumes and the almost unstoppable fires...
The Abrams runs on jet fuel damn! my dad was in the army of the Us of A in 80s the had medium security clea and nice and got to use it the Abrams when the 3/7 got it.
the abrams is just a copy of the leopard 2 most parts are even fro the leopard 2 and certain parts are made in germany
Didn't she become a princess when she fixed there cutie marks after it got mixed up? Or are you referring to when she became the princess of magic and got the castle?
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the abrams definitely is NOT a copy of the leopard 2, but has the same 120mm Rheinmetall smoothbore gun that the leopard 2 has. the only difference is that the 120mm gun the leopard has, is a higher velocity gun than the abrams due to its longer barrel
I just watched The Slow Mo Guys fire a Easy EYA (E8) Tank. the same tank in this story, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJ8EoGmLuE