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Re: [FYI] World's Longest page on tracks vs wheels

From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:27:31 -0800
Subject: Re: [FYI] World's Longest page on tracks vs wheels

If you read Oerjan's posts, it was a Sisu, and the Bv206 is NOT a Sisu.

>From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: [FYI] World's Longest page on tracks vs wheels
>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:50:34 -0500
>
>At 6:43 PM -0800 1/10/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> > You sure you're not thinking of the Bv206 (eg.
>> >
>>http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/armoured/hagglunds2/hagglu
>>nds23.html)?
>>
>>Yeah, those.
>>
>
>
>If it was a Bv206 that was doing the resupply then it makes sense.
>That thing has a tiny ground pressure. Look at the overall weight. As
>the Army technology site says, they exert less than half of the
>pressure of a man's foot. No wonder the M113's were sinking in the
>snow and the Finn's were handling re-supply.
>
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