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From the linked article, a juicy tidbit: ---- "Jungle Destroyer The Morrow Project purchased two of these as driver training vehicles, and for heavy load car
by fit2rule 6y ago
From the linked article, a juicy tidbit:
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"Jungle Destroyer
The Morrow Project purchased two of these as driver training vehicles, and for heavy load carrying -- though also because the manufacturer had them "lying around" -- SAC had tested them in the late 1950s for clearing crashed bombers from runways in a hurry. The same width as the Overland Train (5.25 meters), these are 17.5 meters long and 5 meters tall (over the blade-lifting arm) -- 3.4 meters from the ground to the cargo deck. Weighing 50 tons unloaded, they can carry 95 tons of cargo. Similarly to the Control Car of the Overland Train, the four rear wheels are not steered; all shock-absorbing is from the low pressure tires.
When purchased by the Project, these were powered by a 600 HP Cummins diesel, driving an electrical generator; the Project removed the diesel engine and generator, and installed a fusion reactor. "
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.. ummm .. what? A fusion reactor? Like, nuclear powered jungle destroyer? That is bonkers.
Glad these things didn't make it out of the Armys' toy box. Imagine what the world would be like if we had fusion-powered jungle destroyers on the market ..
EDIT: This picture is a sad end to this story:
http://golddaughters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/museum_4836.jpg http://golddaughters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/museum_4...
Somehow it doesn't look so huge!
- mkl 6y agoThat seems to be from a different article: http://asmrb.pbworks.com/w/page/53070717/Morrow%20Project%20Overland%20Train http://asmrb.pbworks.com/w/page/53070717/Morrow%20Project%20... And, as the casual mentions of fusion reactors suggest, it is fiction: http://asmrb.pbworks.com/w/page/9958836/FrontPage http://asmrb.pbworks.com/w/page/9958836/FrontPage
- fit2rule 6y agoWell, it was linked in the original article directly, which used that page as a source reference for a lot of things, so .. if there is fiction, its sprinkled throughout the original source material.
- mkl 6y agoHm, maybe the thedrive.com article has been changed since then. I can only find one link to that page, in the final paragraph.
- fit2rule 6y agoIts the link in the sentence "In the end, the TC-497 was also abandoned." - that I followed... interesting that they'd use an ARG as a reference on it ..