Posted on Jul 18, 2021
Army and Marines Aren't Doing Enough to Prevent Deadly Vehicle Accidents, Watchdog Says —...
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Could it be linked to the fact that we have high ground clearance vehicles that are top heavy
AND driven by some 19 year old with marginal experience? How many vehicles have we had that were thought to be rollover prone? The old Jeep, the Gamma Goat, and the M113 just off the top of my head. The M113 would climb up slope better than a Humvee, but get it a bit side sloped and it would flip in a heartbeat.
I haven't noticed offroad people using traction control and anti lock breaks. On adventure bikes, you turn that stuff off when you hit the dirt.
AND driven by some 19 year old with marginal experience? How many vehicles have we had that were thought to be rollover prone? The old Jeep, the Gamma Goat, and the M113 just off the top of my head. The M113 would climb up slope better than a Humvee, but get it a bit side sloped and it would flip in a heartbeat.
I haven't noticed offroad people using traction control and anti lock breaks. On adventure bikes, you turn that stuff off when you hit the dirt.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
My point is that we use vehicles that require designs that make them unstable in certain conditions. I'll told that most of the MRAP's are top heavy and want to roll on a side slope, but we put up with that for the additional protection those vehicles provide. I haven't swam an AAV, but it is an armored vehicle that weights 26 tons. I have swam the old M113, which sucked as a boat and would sink in a heart beat if you got too big a wave, the driver didn't keep a steady speed, etc.
The engineer in me says that it may be impossible to design a vehicle that is narrow enough to use regular roads, has enough protection to keep you relatively safe, designed to take an ID and make the vehicle completely safe under all road and trail conditions
The engineer in me says that it may be impossible to design a vehicle that is narrow enough to use regular roads, has enough protection to keep you relatively safe, designed to take an ID and make the vehicle completely safe under all road and trail conditions
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COL (Join to see) I read a similar article in Military Times which came to the same conclusions.
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