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ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

4 wheel maybe, 6 to 8 wheels maybe not, tracked vehicles throw treads easy enough. You can drive wheeled vehicle missing a wheel or on flat tyres, tracked vehicles spin around in circles if they lose a link

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

This is true, but the Bushmaster can reduce it tyre pressure at a flick of a switch. They have an internal type pressure mechanism to deflate and inflate tyres, in sandy conditions this works fine, not sure how it works in muddy conditions. Has it that most of the operational hours of a Bushmaster has been in Afghanistan, Mali and Iraq, and initially built for Australian conditions, they are ideally designed.

Developed by the National Defense Research Committee and the Office of Scientific Research and Development to solve the problem of resupply to units which had just performed an amphibious landing, it was initially rejected by the armed services. When a United States Coast Guard patrol craft ran aground on a sand bar near Provincetown, Massachusetts, an experimental DUKW happened to be in the area for a demonstration. Winds up to 60 knots (110 km/h; 69 mph), rain, and heavy surf prevented conventional craft from rescuing the seven stranded Coast Guardsmen, but the DUKW had no trouble,[9] and military opposition to the DUKW melted. The DUKW later proved its seaworthiness by crossing the English Channel.
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The DUKW was the first vehicle to allow the driver to vary the tire pressure from inside the cab. The tires could be fully inflated for hard surfaces such as roads and less inflated for softer surfaces, especially beach sand.[13] This added to its versatility as an amphibious vehicle. This feature is now standard on many military vehicles.[14]

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

4 wheel maybe, 6 to 8 wheels maybe not, tracked vehicles throw treads easy enough. You can drive wheeled vehicle missing a wheel or on flat tyres, tracked vehicles spin around in circles if they lose a link

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

4 wheel maybe, 6 to 8 wheels maybe not, tracked vehicles throw treads easy enough. You can drive wheeled vehicle missing a wheel or on flat tyres, tracked vehicles spin around in circles if they lose a link

It is not really that easy to throw a track if if the vehicle is properly maintained. There are track adjusters on the vehicles and if the crew does their maintenance properly, the track is at the proper tension. You carry spare track if needed and if the track stretches too much, you can remove a section as needed. Spare track can also be used as armour.

Rubber also burns. While the modern tracks have rubber pads, they are there to protect the roads. The tracks don't have to have the pads although they can wear their pins faster. Remove a pad every so often and you have better traction on ice. Flat rubber pads slide on ice as do tires. Tires burn and Molotov cocktails can start all tires on a vehicle burning which will make it harder to move while the tracked vehicle can relocate easier.

ORIGINAL: GaryChildress

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

4 wheel maybe, 6 to 8 wheels maybe not, tracked vehicles throw treads easy enough. You can drive wheeled vehicle missing a wheel or on flat tyres, tracked vehicles spin around in circles if they lose a link

It is not really that easy to throw a track if if the vehicle is properly maintained. There are track adjusters on the vehicles and if the crew does their maintenance properly, the track is at the proper tension. You carry spare track if needed and if the track stretches too much, you can remove a section as needed. Spare track can also be used as armour.

Rubber also burns. While the modern tracks have rubber pads, they are there to protect the roads. The tracks don't have to have the pads although they can wear their pins faster. Remove a pad every so often and you have better traction on ice. Flat rubber pads slide on ice as do tires. Tires burn and Molotov cocktails can start all tires on a vehicle burning which will make it harder to move while the tracked vehicle can relocate easier.

How easy is it in combat to disable a tracked vehicle by aiming at one of its tracks? I guess if you blow a tire off of an 8 wheel AC, then you have 7 wheels left to travel on. But if you blow a single track on a tank, wouldn't it be catastrophic for it as far as movement?