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Old 08-19-2021, 03:16 AM
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The Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV)

Replacing the long-nosed M35 2.5 ton truck and the M809 and M939 5.0 ton trucks, the FMTV is the first line gear for the US army in tactical trucks in the T2K setting.

I wonder, however, if they became a bit like the Soviet experience.
The Soviets had been using the long-nosed Ural 357 trucks since roughly the early Pleistocene Era when they switched over to the KamAZ 4310 series, a similar cab-over design that has gone on to be legendary in Soviet/Russian service and the term "to KAMaz out of here" is now ubiquitous. However it's been strongly disliked by the actual drivers since Afghanistan as an IED or mine detonates directly under the cab. The rough equation (depending a lot on the weapon) is that for every metre away from the blast you quarter the blast effect. The KamAZ developed a nasty reputation as a crew-killer.

So maybe when going through the list you might still take the old clapped-out M35, M809 or M939 after all.

Still, the FMTVs are nice looking trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Family_of_Medium_Tactical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../M35_ser...C2%BD-ton_6%C3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M809_s...-ton_6x6_truck
(The M809 page has some great line drawings to help with visualisation of the variants)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M939_s...-ton_6x6_truck



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