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Excellent question....for speed and mobility..flails seem to be the optimal option. Giant Viper/Python work ok but have some limitations... and the Mine Plows you see occasionally on Abrams are liked by Americans. Aardvark is a civvy flail that claims good success. The Brits used "python" against IED's which might otherwise also be remote command detonated
Dark Alley Dan
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Another option:
Note chain drive...
Note chain drive...
Successful enough that they're still building and using flail deminers throughout Europe.
I remember reading somewhere that at current acre-by-acre demining efforts, France hopes to be clear of WWI and WWII mines and other UXO sometime within the next 100 years.
sheep are often used on france, fence off an area and put sheep in it to graze, if one blows up, oh well. plus, no mowing needed
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More Christie suspension goodness, plus the roadies from Devo:
Tankers wearing neckties?!? Yeah, right. Not bloody likely!
Hey, wait a minute! Isn't that JOHN BELUSHI??
(sorry about the belated reply; I was away from my desk...) {8^ |
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Tank crew pics:
Hey, 'Mark', thanks for the preceding crew pics--They're excellent!
Here's mine--It's from Kursk:
I regret I don't have any of my own crew in the Fulda Gap... (8:0|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap
Hey, 'Mark', thanks for the preceding crew pics--They're excellent!
Here's mine--It's from Kursk:
I regret I don't have any of my own crew in the Fulda Gap... (8:0|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap
Sporting Lad
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More tank crews:
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He's the one you want with you when you have to split /repair a track!!
"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we fry".
Good question! Probably because drive chains require lubrication whereas tracks do not. Lubrication holds contaminents in place where they act like a grinding compound.
There is much more mass in tracks and much looser tolerances. This means dirt gets in more easily, but also falls out more easily. There is much more "room" for wear and loss of dimensions in tracks because of their size than there is in drive chains. Drive chains have smaller parts, made to much greater precision and with much less "room" for wear before they become unserviceable.
Advances in metallurgy may have changed that since WWII, I don't know.
Good question! Probably because drive chains require lubrication whereas tracks do not. Lubrication holds contaminents in place where they act like a grinding compound.
There is much more mass in tracks and much looser tolerances. This means dirt gets in more easily, but also falls out more easily. There is much more "room" for wear and loss of dimensions in tracks because of their size than there is in drive chains. Drive chains have smaller parts, made to much greater precision and with much less "room" for wear before they become unserviceable.
Advances in metallurgy may have changed that since WWII, I don't know.
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yup,
not tankers but artillery
Panzerhaubitze
not tankers but artillery
Panzerhaubitze
My guess is he's a crew member of one of these.
Obviously the 80's version of Tiny, Porta, et al.
Dark Alley Dan
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Photographic evidence would seem to indicate tanking is a dirty business. Every one of those lads looks grubby as a hog. Except, of course, for the kittenish Asian starlets. They look very clean indeed. 
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