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With the approach of war, increasing orders for M4 Sherman tanks were causing supply issues with the 9-cylinder radial Wright R-975 Whirlwind engine used. The U.S. Army decided it needed to establish additional engine suppliers, choosing a version of the Ford GAA cut down from twelve cylinders to eight for various vehicle applications.
front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
Restored Continental AV1790-5B tank engine at the American Armored Foundation Tank Museum in Danville, Virginia The Continental AV1790 is an American V12 engine used in armored vehicles . Produced by Continental Motors , the AV1790 was used in a variety of limited production and pilot heavy tanks, including the M53 and M55 howitzers , and the ...
The Red Army adopted the V-2 engine in the same year in three modifications: the V-2 (500 hp (370 kW)), the V-2K (600 hp (450 kW)) for the KV line of tanks and the V-2V (375 hp (280 kW)). [ 1 ] Near the end of the 20th century, the V-2 was fitted with more modern modifications by the chief designer of the head design bureau for the Chelyabinsk ...
Gasoline engines up to WWII were often valve in block design (L-head), during the war more overhead valve (ohv) engines were used, and after the war all new engines (except 1 F-head and 1 Overhead camshaft (ohc)) have been ohv. All diesel engines have ohv, they can be naturally aspired, supercharged (SC), or turbocharged (TC).
The initial engine choice in 1954 for what was known at the time as "Medium Gun Tank No.2", later designated the "FV4201" and given the service name 'Chieftain', was a Rolls-Royce diesel V8, however during the Chieftain's design phase NATO introduced a policy in 1957 requiring all armoured fighting vehicles to have a multi-fuel capability.
These engines were simple articulated locomotives rather than compound Mallet locomotives, and they were 2-6-6-2T tank engines carrying coal behind the cab and water on side tanks. They were sold to the Sumpter Valley Railway in 1940 and then to the International Railways of Central America in 1947 and operated in Guatemala .
The AAI High Survivability Test Vehicle (Lightweight) arrives at the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection at Fort Benning, now Fort Moore, in 2021. In early 1977 the Army selected proposals from AAI and Pacific Car and Foundry for HSTV(L) concept feasibility analysis.