[MV] Increasing Horsepower in Perspective

From: RoughDoc@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 11:03:16 PDT


Folks:

Let's put all of this in perspective. Military vehicles that were designed
from the ground up to be military vehicles never were supposed to be speed
demons! They were designed to carry an incredible amount of weight, almost
anywhere, and do it forever. Getting there was the objective, not how fast
we could race to get there.

Now, the commercial vehicles that our military has bought over the years
(CUCV's, the Dodge M880's, the civilian tractor trailers like the M911) are
virtually identical to the civilian version, so on road performance is much
better.

The deuce and the early M54 5 tons never were speed demons...... on their
best days!

Doc



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