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LVS Flatbed variant (MK48/14) with MAK armor kit and ring-mount weapons turret. The LVS is composed of a Front Power Unit (FPU) coupled to a Rear Body Unit (RBU). The FPU can be driven on its own. When describing a truck it is remarked by the combination of both units, for example, an MK48 FPU attached to an MK18 RBU is called a "48/18".
Rear of command car, desert tan The WC-56 was wider and much shorter than the 1 ⁄ 2 ‑ton command cars, giving it squat proportions. The WC-56 Truck, Command Reconnaissance, 3/4 ton, 4x4 w/o Winch, Dodge (G-502) was a command and reconnaissance vehicle akin to a large quarter-ton jeep. It did not prove popular as it was heavier and not as ...
Spine cars with semi trailers on them. Trailer on flatcar, also known as TOFC or piggyback, is the practice of carrying semi-trailers on railroad flatcars.TOFC allows for shippers to move truckloads long distances more cheaply than can be done by having each trailer towed by a truck, since one train can carry more than 100 trailers at once. [1]
A flatcar (US) (also flat car, [1] or flatbed) is a piece of rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck mounted on trucks (US) or bogies (UK) at each end. Occasionally, flat cars designed to carry extra heavy or extra large loads are mounted on a pair (or rarely, more) of bogies under each end.
Flat wagons for carrying timber: the Class Snps 719 (front) and the Class Roos-t 642 (behind). Flat wagons (sometimes flat beds, flats or rail flats, US: flatcars), as classified by the International Union of Railways (UIC), are railway goods wagons that have a flat, usually full-length, deck (or 2 decks on car transporters) and little or no superstructure.
The civilian Power Wagon continued the lineage of limited production Dodge 4WD trucks from the 1930s, that proved basic four-wheel drive design concepts, primarily for the military. Mechanically derived from Dodge's 1942–1945 3/4-ton WC series military trucks, the Power Wagon was introduced in 1946 as the first civilian production 4x4 truck ...
The safety of the M939 series of trucks has been criticized, especially braking performance and stability when loaded. In 1999 the U.S. Army began retrofitting anti-lock brake systems to the M939 trucks. [24] Until the trucks were modified, they were limited to a 40 mph (65 km/h) top speed by an Army-wide safety order. [citation needed]
A battery has three firing units, and each firing unit has six missiles. The firing units are transported by a missile transporter, using an Sisu E13TP 8x8 all-terrain flat bed truck. The battery is led from an FDC (Fire Distribution Centre) command vehicle, using a Sisu A2045 4x4 all-terrain truck. Equipped with GPS-positioning system and 3 ...