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To: Cannoneer No. 4
The things that caught my eye was the autoloader and the electric drive for something that large. The autoloader reduces the size of the crew, turret and hull. The electric drive could possibly simplify the drivetrain. The juice put out by engine / generator is non-trivial to move a tank of any size.

If it's robust, you can slap this type of drive train into any vechile so there's commonality between trucks, jeeps (really fast ones) and tanks. The down side could be EMP protection but someone's taking a gamble that the T-guys WMD don't include that in the bag of tricks...

28 posted on 11/23/2003 7:23:40 AM PST by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: jriemer
The electric drive could possibly simplify the drivetrain.

The common chassis automotive test rig (It had electric drive)was no simplification of the drive train. The mechanical parts worked ok, it was the damn software that kept sidelining the vehicle.

41 posted on 11/23/2003 7:53:50 AM PST by sauropod ("Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt")
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