Combat vehicles

Styker 8-Wheel Drive Armored Combat Vehicle. Defense Industries, Industry Projects. Available at http//www.army.mil/fact files site/stryker/. PM Recond, Sensor Suite for the XM1135 Nuclear Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBSRV) Stryker. Joint Program Executive Office, Chemical Biological Defense. Currently available at http //www.jpcocbd.osd.mil/ca nbcrv.htm. 

This paper describes the results of a joint study undertaken by the U.S. Army Materials Technology Laboratory (AMTL) and the Factory Mutual Research Corporation CFMRC) on fiber reinforced composite materials (FRC) for use in a composite combat vehicle. 

In the study, five FRC samples, about 3 to 5 mm in thickness, were examined. The results from the study show that FRC materials have high resistance to ignition, high heat of gasification and high resistance to self-sustained fire propagation. These results suggest that a composite combat vehicle, by virtue of its construction, does not present an unusual fire hazard. 

The military has had SiC on its radar screen for many years for radar applications, electronic warfare, more electric airplanes, more electric ships, more electric combat vehicles, and rail guns (which, we suppose, are also of the more electric variety). These applications require high-quality materials and large wafer sizes. Thanks to the military and its requirements for large wafers of high quality, the... 

Combat Vehicles (Sento jidosha) and Their Weapons (Heiki). In the book of Tantum Hoffschmidt (Ref 7, Section 4, pp 117-135) are described and illustrated the following items ... 

Heavy Field Guns (pp 79—115a) Combat Vehicles Tanks, Self-Propelled Guns,. Dantai. Body (of Projectile or Bomb)... 

Self-Propelled Guns. All guns mounted on combat vehicles may be considered Self-Propelled Guns. These vehicles include Tankettes Shingodan. Pyrotechnics... 

Tanks (Tanku) and Tankettes are listed here under Combat Vehicles and described, with illustrations, in the book of Tantum Hoffschmidt, pp 116—29, listed as Ref 7... 

Engineer Combat Vehicle. Can transport an engineer squad and its equipment. Used to clear roads and lay down various obstacles. Crew consists of a driver, machine gunner, a non-commissioned officer and seven soldiers. Has a mechanical shovel, winch and a crane with a 5 ton lifting capability. Armament is a 12.7mm machine gun. A 3-ton trailer carries all materials needed for its mission... 

Armor is a covering intended to protect a person, ship, tank, aircraft combat vehicle, etc from the destructive effects of various types of missiles. For individual protection of a person a flexible fabric of interlinked metal rings (called mail) is commonly used. 

Refs l)R.J.Icks Army Ordn 17, 331-3 (1937) (Four Decades of Mechanization Our Record of Combat-Vehicle Development) 2) J.R.Newman, The Tools of War, Doubleday, Doran Co, NY (1943), 198-9 3)G.M.Barnes, Weapons of World War II, Van Nostrand,... 

Force, Marine Corps, National Guard, etc) of small arms, automatic weapons, artillery, fire control equippment, ammunition explosives, bombs mines, transport combat vehicles, rockets guided missiles, tanks, and other... 

Combat Vehicles (Sento jidosha) and Their Weapons (Heiki). In the book of Tantum ... 

Combait Weapons are described in the book of W.H. Tantum IV E.J. Hoffschmidt, Editors, entitled Second World War COMBAT VEHICLES Japanese , Published by WE Inc, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Vol 2 (1968), listed as Ref 7 at the end of this Section, Included among others are ... 

Combat Vehicles Tanks, Self-Propelled Guns,... 

The M40 Series protective mask (including the M42 Combat Vehicle Mask) is the standard protective mask. The mask consists of a silicone facepiece with in-turned periphery, binocular eye... 

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), through the Navy ManTech National Metalworking Center (NMC), has advanced the development of FSW in thick-section 5083, 2195, and 2519 A1 for ground and amphibious combat vehicles. Several large-scale prototypes have been completed. The work by CTC and NMC has provided a valuable transition of the technology from subscale laboratory work to full-scale prototype construction— the last major step before production implementation. 

The M42 Chemical-Biological Field Mask is the same series as the M40. The materials of construction and the basic features are identical, but the M42 protective mask is used by combat vehicle crews (Figure 16-8). 

Filtration is provided by a C2A1 canister attached to the mask by a corrugated hose the canister is housed in a specially designed canister carrier. The M42 integrates with the combat vehicle filtration protection system. The M42 also has a dynamic microphone that integrates with the combat vehicle via a microphone cable.19,20... 

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