The TARDEC Story: Sixty-five Years of Innovation 1946-2010Government Printing Office, 11 дек. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 309 Full of illustrations and photographs, this publication is a comprehensive history of the many innovations in tanks and other military ground vehicles and equipment developed by the engineers at TARDEC, the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. TARDEC was formed in 1946 as an outgrowth of the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built during World War II. During the early years, emphasis was placed on evolving new technologies to improve military ground vehicles, culminating in the development of the M1 Abrams tank. Since then, TARDEC has grown to be a key center for advanced technologies for military ground vehicles and equipment. Recent years have brought an explosion of technology development and integration, from hybrid engines to fuel cells, from analytical simulation to enormous physical simulators, and from small robots to entire unmanned vehicles. |
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M151 Jeep with stratified charge engine was first vehicle | 62 |
M60 tank page 10 | 74 |
TARDEC and University of lowa produce the Dynamic Analysis and Design Propulsion Lab representing the first implementation | 95 |
Physical simulation capabilities upgraded with installation of Through sophisticated acoustical testing track squeak identified due to center guide later... | 96 |
VETRONICS AND ROBOTICS | 111 |
MODELING AND SIMULATION | 121 |
VEHICLE DYNAMICS | 123 |
FORCE PROJECTION TECHNOLOGY | 128 |
2009 | 174 |
OnBoard Vehicle Power developed at TARDEC to be fielded | 186 |
Awardwinning Elastomer Improvement Lab installed page | 198 |
2003 | 202 |
1990 | 203 |
Overhead Wire Mitigation Kits fielded to deflect overhead wires winning Tactical Truck demonstrator allowing the armor condition to | 209 |
compartmented ammunition on M1 tank creating a much safer 1979 | 214 |
SimulationBased Reliability and Safety Consortium established at 2010 | 217 |
Reconfigurable NPost Simulators that replaced laborious field | 142 |
Modern Times 1990 to 2010 | 144 |
ROBOTICS | 165 |
Robot Follower team up in many successful field studies | 173 |
TARDEC develops simulated bridgetesting method replacing the 1996 | 220 |
production incorporating many TARDEC innovations page 138 an M1 engine in only 60 percent of the volume page 88 | 254 |
The first Combat Vehicle Command and Control CVC2 Vehicle 1988 | 283 |