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by Retric 256 days ago
Walked into a weapons show a few decades ago that had a full scale Abrams tank + demo camera providing good 360 degree visibility.

It was odd because I was like yea this is obviously a good idea, but also I’m not the person you need to convince here so WTF.

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How'd you find a weapons show? Which one? are these semi-open to the public? Sounds fascinating
I was walking around Arlington VA area and saw some signs of fighter jets and such that looked interesting, no idea of the show beyond that really.

I did have a pentagon badge at the time which let me in, not sure if it was necessary though.

You're not but there may be people that are. Besides, tanks are cool and I'd go to shows like that for entertainment purposes. I went to the Dutch military museum the other day, it has a Leopard tank outside (and of course a collection of tanks and the like indoors, including a German V2 rocket suspended from the ceiling).
It's designed to convince their customers which are other countries.