New blog post: CTIS, tyres and comparisons with tracked vehicles. We're seeing a lot of things getting stuck in Ukraine, how does CTIS and tyre choice help in situations like that, and can a wheeled AFV ever match a tracked one?https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/primer-ctis-tyres …
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When UK was (for a third time?) trying to decide which 8x8 to buy General Dynamics sent a LAV and a Foxhound on a 650 mile road trip. Have any other vehicles been put through similar publicity stunts?https://defence-blog.com/uk-takes-the-light-armoured-vehicle-lav-on-the-road/ …
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They do from time to time, Boxer recently did a long trial. The thing is they are doing so having been prepped for it - its not reflective of suddenly doing that with real vehicles IRL. When you do it for real its usually much harder (more on that in my next blog post this week)
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Seems like the “easy” way to put them out of action is to give them flat tyres.
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For sure. Equally a good few strands of wire and a tracked AFV is utterly, utterly dead in the water, and probably for a lot longer than the time to replace a few tyres (which also have CTIS to keep them up for a short while at least). But things that burst tyres might not...pic.twitter.com/qqBwOQmpmE
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Seems like there will be a test of this. Tskhinvali is 980km from Mariupol, looks like they're driving there, not trucking.https://twitter.com/visionergeo/status/1504028216381648896?s=21 …
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