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Army May "Hybridize" Abrams Tanks With Electric Propulsion
https://warriormaven.com ^
| FEB 10, 2022
| By Kris Osborn
Posted on 07/27/2022 6:13:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
The M1A2 Abrams' gas turbine engine develops 1500 HP to drive the 60 ton vehicle 45+ miles per hour.
A battery is supposed to do that? Plus provide all of the electrical power demands, (NBC systems and communications/computing suites)?
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:29:58 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
To: Red Badger
“The enemy line is collapsing. We need to move forward now before they can regroup.”
“I need 6 hours to charge the tanks.”
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:33:18 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
To: Travis McGee
The very notion that war can be “green” is absolutely lunatic
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:33:19 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
(21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: antidemoncrat
EMP doesn’t go through thick armor.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:33:26 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Red Badger
What if a tank had lithium batteries and would self ignite.
Would the Chinese or Russians laugh themselves silly?
To: Psalm 73
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:33:48 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
It works for diesel-electric locomotives.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:35:58 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Psalm 73
45 MPH? It’s a gas turbine, all I will say is I have rode in a Marine M1A2 when they had them and 45 MPH is like a Dick and Jane Book.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:36:43 AM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(I'm positive that Slow Joe mistakes paint thinner for coffee each morning. )
To: antidemoncrat
Hybrids (not all electric) might, I say might, have a place both in military and civilian world. As to EMP, electric motors are pretty simple and not the kind of electronics that are subject to disruption by EMP. Controlling electronics would have to be hardened.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:36:44 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Red Badger
I have no words for this kind of stupidity.
We are fukt’d.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:37:04 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
To: Travis McGee
They’ll just toss out the protective armor for the weight of the batteries.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:37:39 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(“If you are receiving this transmission, you are the resistance.”)
To: Red Badger
I doubt the wisdom of bringing a huge lithium battery onto the battlefield.
War machines should be made reliable, environmental concerns should not be a factor.
After all, what is more destructive than a war?
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:37:59 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: antidemoncrat
Then the Lycoming turbine and all targeting and firing systems would be disabled, as well.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:38:18 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Travis McGee
Energy Density. Gas is king.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:40:02 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST)
To: Psalm 73
I’m not saying this is a viable solution, but when industry wants the TORQUE required to move large loads, they use ELECTRIC MOTORS. Infinitely torque is a real thing.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:40:08 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Red Badger
It sounds to me as if the Army materiel people are about to b@st@rdize the Abrams tank.
To: Red Badger
It sounds to me as if the Army materiel people are about to b@st@rdize the Abrams tank.
To: Red Badger
Where will they hide the massive battery ? On a trailer that’s towed behind ?
To: Red Badger
If you look at tracked vehicles with thermal sights, the tracks are usually well heated from the friction of moving. Very easy to spot even through dense woodland cover. The tracks are also quite loud when turning. I will admit that M-1s can be quite quiet when approaching slowly and not turning.
A better idea would be to develop hover tanks that have Romulan invisibility shields.
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:42:45 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Red Badger
Because massive lithium batteries would be so easy to get in times of desperation. /s
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posted on
07/27/2022 6:45:18 AM PDT
by
nagant
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