This document describes test procedures to assess the performance of tracked vehicles in water. These vehicles have built-in floating/swimming capability or kits to enable them to float/swim. This performance is critical to tactical vehicle crossings of deep water obstacles. Keywords: Bollard pull; Maximum water speed; Current velocity; Mooring points; Turning ability; Reserve buoyancy; Wind speed.
Tracked Vehicle Swimming Tests
1987
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
Combat Vehicles , Tracked vehicles , Barriers , Crossings , Deep water , Floating bodies , Mooring , Self contained , Swimming , Test and evaluation , Test methods , Tracking , Velocity , Water , Wind velocity
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