A good vehicle for the Project-Japanese Load carrier

[tsofian]

The Japanese GSDF has these load carriers which look to be the business

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Aoshima-1-72-JGSDF-Material-Carrier-Vehicles-668743626

http://miniafv.blogspot.com/2015/04/aoshima-172-jgsdf-material-carrier.html

[mmartin798]

It's small, but could be useful. Found some specs on it at this Japanese website:

http://www15.tok2.com/home/lttom/military-powers_jgsdf/shisetsu/military-powers_shizai.htm

I made a PDF of the page translated to english via Google Translate and attached it here or those that don't want to go looking for themselves.

[tsofian]

Thanks! That is very helpful.

[ArmySGT.]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/M558.JPG/1024px-M558.JPG

http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/eng/M578.html

[tsofian]

But that doesn't have any cargo space, the Japanese vehicle has

[ArmySGT.]

But that doesn't have any cargo space, the Japanese vehicle has

Trailer and everyone straps all there duffle bags and rucks to the outside.

This would have a Deuce or a XR311 accompanying it.

[mmartin798]

Don't overlook the fact these vehicles are designed for completely different mission profiles. The JGSDF Material Transport is basically a light construction vehicle and the M578 is a light armored recovery vehicle. One set of stats illustrates how different these are: the Material Transport weighs about 2 tonne, has a max carry capacity of 3 tonne and the crane can lift 2 tonne. The M578 weighs in at 27 tonnes and its crane can lift 15 tonne. So put three fully loaded Material Transports on a pallet and one M578 can lift it all.

[ArmySGT.]

http://www.military-today.com/trucks/m548.jpg

M548 Cargo carrier (http://www.military-today.com/trucks/m548.htm)

http://www.military-today.com/engineering/m105_deuce.jpg
M105 DEUCE (http://www.military-today.com/engineering/m105_deuce.htm)

http://www.military-today.com/engineering/see.jpg
SEE (http://www.military-today.com/engineering/see.htm)

http://www.military-today.com/trucks/cucv.jpg
CUCV (http://www.military-today.com/trucks/cucv.htm)

[.45cultist]

Early Project vehicles might have included both the M715/ Jeep Gladiator pickup replaced by the CUCV. The CUCV shared componants with the Humvee. An idea I had was to have transport facilities hidden near truck stops. The "Flying M" Would have power plants and transmissions to convert the trucks at the stops as per the original 5 year plant to augment with surviving equipment.

[ArmySGT.]

Early Project vehicles might have included both the M715/ Jeep Gladiator pickup replaced by the CUCV. The CUCV shared componants with the Humvee. An idea I had was to have transport facilities hidden near truck stops. The "Flying M" Would have power plants and transmissions to convert the trucks at the stops as per the original 5 year plant to augment with surviving equipment.

Just the diesel motors, the head light controls, and the blackout drive lamp. It's a 24volt system, but I think the commonality of parts there crosses over to several chassis.

[mmartin798]

Early Project vehicles might have included both the M715/ Jeep Gladiator pickup replaced by the CUCV. The CUCV shared componants with the Humvee. An idea I had was to have transport facilities hidden near truck stops. The "Flying M" Would have power plants and transmissions to convert the trucks at the stops as per the original 5 year plant to augment with surviving equipment.

Had some down time and work and went looking. You will notice that the cockpit of the Flying M logo looks a bit like a "P".

[ArmySGT.]

DEATHKart! (http://www.maxim.com/rides/speed-warhouse-deathkart-2014-4)

aka the Rule of Cool!