ARMORED COMBAT VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY（装甲战斗车辆技术）.pdf

MURPHY ARMORED COMBAT VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY (ACVT) PROGRAM MOBILITY/AGILITY FINDINGS (U) NEWELLR._MURPHY,-JR.., MR. MOBILITY SYSTEMS DIVISION,.U. S. ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI 39180 PART I: INTRODUCTION Background The ACVT program was a joint Army and Marine Corps project to develop technology for designing and building armored vehicles in the post-1985 I time frame. *The program examined potentials for improving weapon systems, armor, and mobility/agility performance particularly as advances in these areas could be combined to produce combat vehicles of greater battlefield lethalityand survivalility -._This paper is concerned only with the 1-jbility and agility part of the program, which consisted of three closely related activities:-- a.,-Careful testing of two special test chassis, plus the General Motors XMI automotive test rig (ATR), the MlI3Al Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), and the M60.l Main Battle Tank (MBT), to develop quantitative data relating various measures of performance to a wide range o vehicle design parameters and terrain conditions and to driver behavior b. Development or refinement of analytical models for predicting vehicle performance, and validation of these models,using the data base derived from-a above, m, - c. (Use of the validated analytical models to conduct broad parametric studies, to support war games which integrated mobility/agility, weapon systems, and armor considera