RE: Engineers Was Re: TOE

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

> I dunno. If it's designed in as a feature and the 
> hydraulic pump is large enough, adding an extra 
> hydraulic component isn't so hard. Look at the 
> Swedish S tank. They have a fully retractable 
> blade for digging their own scrapes sans engineer 
> support.

If the S-tank is the one I'm thinking of, it has a
hydraulic suspension.  So they have a tank and a pump
and so forth, and lines running through the hull. 
Adding the doohickeys necessary to do a little
spoil-pushing or some light earth moving ain't all
that.  I know there are turret hydraulics in the
Abrahms, I don't know how easy it would be to beef
them up to also run a blade.  However, there are
normally no hydraulics in the chassis, it's all
turret.  So it would not be a trivial conversion.

John
Hydraulics Ranger
Wolverine, AVLB, and ACE Qualified

	
		
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