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The mighty Abrams Tank, known as the Beast, is the US Army’s biggest land combat vehicle. Weighing as much as a herd of twenty elephants, this seventy ton monster is turbo-powered to reach speeds of forty-five MPH, carrying four crew into some of the most dangerous hostile environments in the world. With incredible access to the factory that builds these amazing machines, as well as the testing ground where they’re put through their paces, we find out just how you go about building one of the most advanced tanks in the world.

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Impossible Engineering looks at the history of pioneering modern-day mega structures. Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and revolutionized their field.

This film was first broadcast: 2019

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