Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
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Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
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Re: Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
#2I am not easily wowed but I got to say it.WOW.
The transition from track to round again had a couple of bumps. Its amazing what we can do these days.
I wonder if it's a pneumatic, hydraulic or an electrically actuated assembly. Looks like a hydraulic braking system.
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#3They'll be able to kill a lot more people in undeclared wars now, sweet!
Re: Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
#4What’s the benefit though?
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#5That thing looks like a maintenance nightmare.
Re: Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
#6What’s the benefit though?
read the article. it's the first sentence.
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#8That thing looks like a maintenance nightmare.
You're thinking of the present. It's first stage tech.
From here you'd keep iterating - learning, improving, trying various approaches.
Re: Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
#9That thing looks like a maintenance nightmare.
You’re not kidding.
Maybe the track version is meant to be used only rarely, when the vehicle is truly stuck. So you’re either wasting time digging yourself out with a shovel and saving on maintenance, or you switch to tracks to get out of the ditch and then perform maintenance right after you get back to the base. So long as maintenance is not deferred it seems preferable to do the latter.
Re: Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
#10That thing looks like a maintenance nightmare.
You're thinking of the present. It's first stage tech. From here you'd keep iterating - learning, improving, trying various approaches.
Sure, but it seems almost certain to have more mechanical issues over time than a traditional wheel that doesn't have so many, er, moving parts.