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Re: new military tires
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2011, 10:48:26 AM »
Unlike a car the Hummvee has the brakes on the drive shaft not the tires, so what you are seeing is the excess momentum as it is being stopped.

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2011, 11:04:12 AM »
Unlike a car the Hummvee has the brakes on the drive shaft not the tires, so what you are seeing is the excess momentum as it is being stopped.

Also like lots have said anything getting in the sidewall would throw it out of balance.

I've driven humvees before :)

Now watch the tire as he stops.
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Re: new military tires
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2011, 11:33:32 AM »
I've driven humvees before :)

Now watch the tire as he stops.

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2011, 12:24:16 PM »
You realize you are hinting at what he is, right?

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2011, 10:53:18 AM »
Why put brakes on a driveshaft?  Does it help to protect them from damage?

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2011, 11:54:04 PM »
Why put brakes on a driveshaft?  Does it help to protect them from damage?

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2011, 05:39:17 PM »
Why put brakes on a driveshaft?  Does it help to protect them from damage?

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IIRC, the Humvee was designed from the ground up to be the most rugged replacement of the old Jeep as possible.  The whole thing was built to be survivable (as in the crew, not necessarily the vehicle) if it ever ran into mines, and durable enough to shrug off most small arms fire.
The original Humvee is one hell of a vehicle for its original design.

Brakes on the drive shaft are there so that when one of your tires gets shot out, or blown off, you still have equal braking control for the vehicle.

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2011, 11:06:24 PM »
Ive been out of balance for years, I get around ok.
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Re: new military tires
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2011, 12:43:53 AM »
Just so everyone is tracking....Humvees are being replaced by the new MATVs, they have a gross weight of close to 30,000 pounds with out all the extra stuff we put in the trucks(Ammo, radios, food, water, gear).

The run flat tires I think are perfect in these trucks because they don't get entirely flat, the truck pumps air into the tire as you are moving so you can make it to a safe place to get a new tire on.

Those tires like shuffler said look like they add a rocking effect to the rock of the truck stopping, with 30,000 pounds added to that rocking I feel like it would be unsafe and flat out annoying while driving.

Also in high temprature fires I think those tires would create a hell of a fire....I'll stick with the run flats.

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Re: new military tires
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2011, 12:49:45 AM »
Just so everyone is tracking....Humvees are being replaced by the new MATVs, they have a gross weight of close to 30,000 pounds with out all the extra stuff we put in the trucks(Ammo, radios, food, water, gear).

The run flat tires I think are perfect in these trucks because they don't get entirely flat, the truck pumps air into the tire as you are moving so you can make it to a safe place to get a new tire on.

Those tires like shuffler said look like they add a rocking effect to the rock of the truck stopping, with 30,000 pounds added to that rocking I feel like it would be unsafe and flat out annoying while driving.

Also in high temprature fires I think those tires would create a hell of a fire....I'll stick with the run flats.

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I have seen the MATV.  Vary nice looking and look like they can take a bellybutton beating.  However, i wonder how many lives would have been saved in Iraq/Afganistan if we had them over the Humvees?
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Re: new military tires
« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2011, 09:56:31 PM »
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Re: new military tires
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2012, 06:10:49 AM »
I have seen the MATV.  Vary nice looking and look like they can take a bellybutton beating.  However, i wonder how many lives would have been saved in Iraq/Afganistan if we had them over the Humvees?
Depends bro....use a big enough IED anything is going to get blown sky high, my sister battalion had one of these lose all the doors and the turret in an IED strike. 5 KIA. :pray

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