From: Greg Booth (gbooth@kc.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 19:23:59 PDT
On my way back from Topeka Ks. Saturday evening I saw 4 or 5 of them on I-70
heading west probably going to Ft Riley All were pulling a Fifth wheel
trailer.
Greg Booth MVPA # 24369
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From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] saw interesting MV
> At 9:28 PM -0700 5/26/02, jeep wrote:
> >I saw an interesting "truck" today there were two of them on a
> >flatbed at a truck stop it was new and looked like a replacement for
> >a m35 only it looked more like a 6x6 unimog it was made by Stuart
> >stevenson. it had super single tires and auto inflation ect......
>
> That would be the FMTV or Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. There
> are a full suite of vehicles from a basic 2.5 ton to tractors. Its
> quite an interesting concept of systems however in order to attain
> some of the required mobility goals (un-refueled range and/or air
> portability) lighter materials have been used that aren't as durable.
>
> Do a search on FMTV with Google or another search engine and read up.
> There are articles on things they've been fixing over the course of
> the deployment and ongoing product improvements with S&S as well as
> details on the entire family of vehicles.
>
> see www.fmtvtruck.com
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> Ryan Gill rmgill@mindspring.com
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