From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Mar 19 2005 - 08:16:25 PST
At 8:25 AM -0700 3/19/05, bolton8@juno.com wrote:
>The Army is baffled by a recent spate of vehicle accidents in Iraq — many
>of them rollovers involving armored Humvees — that have claimed more than
>a dozen lives this year.
Put all that armor and a big heavy weapon up
high, get it moving fast and jerk the wheel and
it will roll. Ferrets are the same way. They're
armored up high and too much sway at 40mph and
more and they roll like beach balls.
I don't know why they'd be baffled. All that
armor completely changes the roll characteristics
of a known performance envelope.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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