"Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
> They built them wide because soldiers tipped Jeeps over.
Well, actually, the reason why the Hummer is so wide is that the Army
specifically requested a vehicle that had the same track width as the M1
tank.
Tanks make their own roads, and it's a whole lot easier for followon
vehicles to er... follow if the ruts are spaced the same as the vehicle
track.
The Canadian ILTIS jeep (built by VW) is tiny, with a track width that's
about half that of the tanks. Driving down a tank track can be an
adventure...
> They built them diesel so they would use the same fuel as their other
> trucks.
Not to mention that diesel is ballistically inert (it doesn't go BOOM! if
the tank gets shot) and that you can often get some pretty strange fuels
and mixes to run in a diesel engine.
The old Centurion tanks would actually run on cooking oil.
DG
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