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Re: DS2 Another armour\mobility idea

From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@w...>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:45:59 +1000
Subject: Re: DS2 Another armour\mobility idea

From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>

> >Roight then! This c/would explain "slow tracked" and "fast tracked" 

> And in the process you'll be throwing tracks, loosing road wheels and 
> all sorts of problems along the way. The differences in suspension 
> for certain types of armored vehicles isn't the same. You couldn't 
> have dropped a stronger engine into a churchill with a different 
> transmission and expected that suspension to handle that kind of 
> movement.

Interestingly, the Churchill was reckoned to be very maouverable -
it could go up slopes and cope with rough ground that a Sherman
couldn't. Of course a Sherman was capable of moving faster than
a jog on most terrain, which the Churchill couldn't do downhill
with a following wind. The difference between a normal car and a


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