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The National Museum of Military Vehicles is a military history museum in Dubois, Wyoming. [3] [2]Established in 2020, the 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) museum was founded by Dan and Cynthia Starks and built between May 2017 and August 2020. [4]
The Trojan armoured engineer vehicle is based on a Challenger 2 tank chassis, but lacks the main armament. In place of the turret , it has a large hydraulic excavator arm, which can be used to excavate areas, move obstacles, and deposit the fascine that the Trojan carries at its rear.
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
In 1986, four Lexington men founded the Heartland Museum. [2] In 1991, a permanent site for the museum was obtained at exit 237 of Interstate 80 (its current location). [2] [3] In 1998, a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2) visitor center was constructed which houses many of the vehicles. [4] [3]
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
The museum has an extensive collection of gun truck images, organised by the truck name, which are also on the museum's web site. [13] Outdoor exhibits include the vehicle park with a selection of representative vehicles used in the transport command including a DUKW. A marine park has Army water vessels such as a tugboat, J-Boat, and various ...
The Trojan was the last tracked vehicle made by the company MOWAG . The Trojan was until 2005 owned by the company MOWAG. It is now at the Military Museum Full. [1] [2] Finnish defense company Patria bought a license to build these, and they built a couple of prototypes in 25mm, 30mm and 35mm Bushmaster guns. These were made to compete for the ...
The organization acquired four O-2s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in 1996. [1]The organization received approval to build a 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m 2) facility from the airport authority in May 2013.