sorry,,,,i'm still rolling in the floor...
battle tactics for armor didnt change until after mid seventies...before then we were still attacking an objective by using a wedge, echelon left or right, light and heavy bounding, and line formation right up the middle in the open. we made a training agreement with our enemy at the time the big red bear and developed test companies to use gurilla tactics with tanks, i was in a CSA company that used three tank platoons (just like IVAN) we personified the term "move shoot and communicate) and then revamped tank manuvering to use defilade and cover more efficeintly. also using the movement of the tank to control coax machine gun fire was changed to have the gunner make a Z pattern through the target area which conserved ammo...as stabilized guns were added to more tanks the whole scene changed from the old WWII battle field tactics where the best shot rode away to "sneak, peak, and pop a round and get the heck behind a defilade and pop up some where else....so, i can believe the tank scene from red dawn because it was probably a national guard tank unit that couldnt hit a barn from inside and the loader screaming "bunk this" and the driver yelling " man, i'm backing up" and the TC saying " hey guys, be quiet,,,26 this is 22 , say again over"!!!with the old coincidence range finders and mechanical ballistic computer...sorry but that scene was pretty accurately done,,,,scarry as hell to think what the survivability was in a 60 series tank compared to an russian counterpart...but even they had to drive up on logs to shoot up hill or down hill because of the low profile of the turret but the choke range finder made them a little quicker on the draw.......just an opinion of an old tread head