RE: Engineers Was Re: TOE

--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:

>
> that'd be swapped. Assume a vehicle is too combat 
> damaged to swap coils on, hook up some external 
> bolt/chain on coils that are connected externally 
> to the ARV/Transporter that then lifts the float 
> (not track or car) up and supports it that way. A 
> good parallelogram A-frame (2 A-frames, not one) 
> to hitch it to the ARV and you're good to go with 
> towing it back to a repair point while it's 
> mission killed.

The Traveller assumption was that your ARV would open
the bay door below, and settle down over the disabled
vehicle.  Then it would chain the wreck to the
recovery vehicle, and lift, closing the doors as soon
as it lifted up.  Since it assumed that the bay would
be inside the 'contra-gravity field' and therefor be
pretty lightweight.

> Tank Transporters usually have a winch provision 
> for pulling a dead vehicle onto a trailer. ARVs 

Oh, you mean HETs, the low-boys.  Yeah, they almost
always do if they are purpose-built military ones. 
Ted could be more enlightening about contracted
civillian HETs.

> Depends. A Blade is easy to tack on. The Abrams 
> can carry a blade no problem. ITs the bigger 
> stuff that costs more space. Screw auger, 
> backhoe, front end loader, etc.

A blade is easy to "tack on" but the hydraulics needed
to dig properly with them is no joke.  A bladed Abrams
might be good for pushing spoil.

John

		
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