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Trailer connector according to NATO STANAG 4007. NATO uses a 12-pin connector [NATO 1] [NATO 2] according to STANAG 4007. [1] However, note that there are often deviations from the standard depending on which country it is applied, which means that the table below may not be accurate.
A Zhongxing Grand Tiger technical with a mounted FN MAG during the First Libyan Civil War. A technical, known as a non-standard tactical vehicle (NSTV) in United States military parlance, is a light improvised fighting vehicle, typically an open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle modified to mount SALWs and heavy weaponry, such as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher ...
In as little as 3 hours, a full-size truck could be converted into a 4x4 "Mountain Goat" that would climb steep inclines with ease. Just as easily, the kit could be removed and re-used on another truck, and this was used as a selling point. The retail price of NAPCO Powr-Pak kit in 1955 was $995.
Spades are normally located at the end of the carriage and their shape resembles a plow or shovel. Some artillery pieces designed before hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism became common used recoil spades with coil springs or rubber shock absorbers such as the 76 mm gun M1900 and Obusier de 120 mm C mle 1897 Schneider-Canet. [10]
Conventional style cab tractor A cab-over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms – see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a ...
The Soviet TMM bridging truck could carry and launch a 10-meter bridge that could be daisy-chained with other TMM bridges to cross larger obstacles. More recent developments have seen the conversion of AVLB and truck launched bridge with launching systems that can be mounted on either tank or truck for bridges that are capable of supporting ...
Semi-trailer aerodynamic devices are devices affixed to semi-trailers, for the purpose of reducing aerodynamic drag caused by air turbulence. The two major types of device in use are trailer skirts (or side skirts ), affixed to the underside of trailers, and trailer tails (or boat tails , or rear fairings ), affixed to the rear.
It consisted of a 12-ton 6×4 M20 Diamond T model 980 truck and companion 12-wheel M9 trailer. Over 5,000 were produced, and employed by Allied armies throughout all theaters of war. It was superseded in the U.S. military by the M25 tank transporter during the war, but usefully redeployed in other tasks.