Hardening of Armored Vehicle Suspension Components

Abstract

Vulnerability analysis has predicted severe losses of armored combat units in all mine environments. This prompted investigations for providing countermine hardened suspensions for armored vehicles. The following guidelines were developed for hardening tank track shoes and roadwheels thus providing enhanced survivability: (1) Suspension components should be hardened to demonstrate enhanced blast survival from the explosion of a unidirectional shallow-buried charge. (2) Hardened components should not exceed the weight of current suspensions. (3) The M60 tank tracks and roadwheels should be the baseline suspension components. (4) The vehicle should be mobile after a single encounter and should be able to 'limp-off' the minefield and preclude a complete kill.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 18, 1982
Accession Number
ADA117294

Entities

People

  • Hubert Comminge

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Tank Mines
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Blast Loads
  • Blast Resistance
  • Composite Materials
  • Discontinuities
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Glass Fibers
  • Land Mines
  • Materials
  • Minefields
  • Torsion Bars
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • Vehicles

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  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.