Halftracks

>>31578299

APCs

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>>31578299
Here's a JERRV, the same kind of vehicle I have experience with and which may be thought of as somewhat similar to a halftrack.

It has similar surface area on the ground thanks to the tires in the rear, but since they are tires, logistics is more simplified. Don't have to worry about throwing a track, and the maintenance area just needs to carry tires, not tires and tracks.

Being that increased surface area is about the only advantage you get with a halftrack, and something like a JERRV can do the same thing but simpler and without the inherent disadvantages of a halftrack, there's really no reason to use one.

Not a historian but I think half tracks where invented so militaries could say they had scary treaded vehicles for cheap. Them everyone was like this is stupid, do one or the other.

what's the advantage? Seems like whole hog or not at all would be a better choice.

>>31578299

Having both wheels and tracks is most likely to impart the disadvantages of both systems to the vehicle. It'll still tear up roads and have awful gas economy while still being vulnerably to getting stuck in the mud or breaking in rough terrain.

Strykers and other 8x8 vehicles have already filled the niche that the half-track used to fill, and they can often fill the role of tracked APCs when the terrain isn't too shitty.

>>31578827
Having extra mobility over rough terrain while still handling like a wheeled vehicle. Makes it easy to train drivers who are used to driving cars or farm equipment.

>>31578299

The advantage of the half-track is that you can get pretty great traction and off-road capability out of one, but it's simple enough that you don't need to go to tank school to learn how to drive it. Anybody that knows how to drive a regular large truck can drive a half track with little training. This isn't a problem we have anymore because we no longer have a need to rush millions of civilians into uniform as fast as humanly possible.

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>>31578896
>It'll still tear up roads
It doesn't. Most half-tracks use rubber tracks, and the steering is provided by the front wheels.
Advantages of the system over tracked systems are weight, noise reduction, ease of maintenance, and a steering system that's simpler to use.

But yeah, novadays that niche is filled by 8 wheelers.

>>31578692

>not a historian

It shows. Stay in preschool.

>>31578299
Limited mobility commpared to full-tracked vehicles,
more complex and expensive than trucks.

They were an awkward transitional phase in AFV development more than anything else, and the stuff we replaced them with did the job better.

>>31579159
>>31579241
You guys have never been in a tank, have you?
They usually have a steering wheel, a go pedal, and a stop pedal.
And even when they were steered with two sticks and a clutch they weren't that difficult to drive.

I don't get why people seem to think that driving a tank is like piloting the space shuttle. Sure, it's difficult to get the fine driving part down, but it's really pretty easy once you know what everything does.

>>31579346
This faggot

>>31579346
anon brings the banter.

>>31578299

Because halftracks are garbage. They were a stopgap solution to give trucks more mobility in poor road conditions.

Now we just use either really, really big trucks, fully tracked vehicles, or helicopters.

Tyres and suspension got better.

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>>31578299
>Why is it that we don't use halftracks anymore?

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>>31578299
esentially transmissions.

ww2 era had shit trannies, thus they needed the extra gruip and power in the rear end.

modern armored cars and MRAPs have all that modern drivetrains and doesnt need the extra grip (and weight) that a halftrack provides

>>31585103
>>31585114
>tracks on the steering wheels
Wat

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>$4000 OT-810's will never go on sale again

;_;