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Tank steering systems allow a tank, or other continuous track vehicle, to turn. Because the tracks cannot be angled relative to the hull (in any operational design), steering must be accomplished by speeding one track up, slowing the other down (or reversing it), or a combination of both.
The term "tank controls" comes from the steering mechanisms of old tanks, which had to stop completely before turning. [2] The term differs from the controls of literal tank driving games like Battlezone where dual analog sticks are mapped to the treads of the tank which may be moved together or alternately to turn.
Differential steering is the primary means of steering tracked vehicles, such as tanks and bulldozers, is also used in certain wheeled vehicles commonly known as skid-steer, and even implemented in some automobiles, where it is called torque vectoring, to augment steering by changing wheel direction relative to the vehicle.
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A common use is in automobile driving video games and simulators, which turn the steering wheel to simulate forces experienced when cornering a real vehicle. Direct-drive wheels , introduced in 2013, are based on servomotors and are the most high-end, for strength and fidelity, type of force feedback racing wheels.
Screenshot of one of the tracks in the mobile phone game Tank Racer. A mobile phone game with the same title and similar gameplay (although in 2D) was released by GlobalFun and Runestone Games in February 2005. [11] In the game the player can choose from a range of six tanks including Bumbleboy, Thor and Power Punch. Like Glass Ghost's game ...
Hi, somewhere I stumbled over a tank that steers by first bending the tracks by shifting the front wheels to one or the other side for slight curves and for sharp curving a brake sets in. But I cannot find which tank right now. Ciao --Pentaclebreaker 08:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC) Light Tank Mk VII Tetrarch for one.
Henry Edward Merritt MBE (20 May 1899 – 28 March 1974) was a British mechanical engineer who invented the Merritt–Brown triple differential tank transmission that provided greater manoeuvrability to a generation of British tanks, starting with the Churchill in 1939 and continuing into the 1980s.