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The Army's first hybrid tank
Oh, yeah! Now, that's a hybrid. BAE Systems demoed the first hybrid drive for a ground combat vehicle. It's a part of the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS). The army is also developing a hybrid Hummer. They are even going to Detroit looking for batteries. You might think: the Army, embracing this hippie crap? Don't be surprised.
Fuel efficiency means fewer supply lines. Fewer supply lines mean fewer troops in danger. The Army wants green power too. It's about saving lives. Well, our troop's lives. The Army is not the Red Cross. The army's hybrids are not going to do the environment much good either.
Pictured is the first vehicle it will be used which should begin production in 2008. Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C), the lead FCS ground combat vehicle with a fully automated, 155mm self-propelled howitzer. That thing does not plant trees! YEEHAW!
[Source: Green Car Congress]
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PeakVT 12:57PM (8/17/2007)
I think the phrase you were looking for was "supply lines."
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Lascelles 12:58PM (8/17/2007)
Corrected. Thanks.
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Don 5:40PM (8/17/2007)
I wonder how those batteries will do out in 140 degree heat?
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carroll trust 12:57PM (2/19/2009)
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