New version of S-tank developed for Swedish Army by Bofors Co is turretless vehicle with mounting of 105-mm gun fixed in relation to hull, so that gun is elevated or depressed by altering pitch of hull and traversed by turning whole vehicle; pitch of hull is altered by means of interconnected, adjustable, hydropneumatic suspension systems whose basic features are set out in U S Patent No. 3,154,317 granted to A.G.V.Gustafsson, of Bofors; steering system consists of double-differential mechanism with hydrostatic steering drive and superimposed clutch-and-brake system, etc.
New battle tank
Engineer
Engineer ; 224 , n 5829
1967
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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