SHHHHHEEEEEETTTTTTT...... ya'll wanna talk about speed in an M
series.....nobody's gonna beat that 5 ton down at White Sands in the 60's.
Seems they was doing qualification tests on the Honest John system and with
the rocket in transport mode and locked down on the launcher, they lit off
the rocket motor just to see what would happen....range sucked, and they
never did anything about the front end shimmy at 143 mph, but the 0 to 60
time was not something seen until they put rockets in drag cars...only got
one run per set of tires....Never did try it with the brakes unlocked....a
damn shame.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Shannon" <fordpart@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:50 PM
Subject: [MV] Top speed of M-???
> Well I fully intend to put a 550 horse Cat 3406E in my M-62 with a 13
> speed behind it but not for speed. It will then go well with my M-211
> which will spin the rear tires on pavement until the front hooks up.
>
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