The crew members were located in their normal positions with the tank commander, gunner, and loader in the turret and the driver in the front center of the hull. 30 caliber machine gun was fitted to the left of the cannon with a telescopic sight for the gunner to the right. The 105mm gun T140 was installed in a large turret mounted on a ring with an inside diameter of 110 ½ inches. Their initial work considered a four track electric drive vehicle with four separate traction motors similar to the Chrysler proposal, although the design was developed in much greater detail. also investigated the concept of a four track medium tank and their work produced a far more detailed analysis than any of the other concept studies. 'The contract with Associated Engineers, Inc. The four track arrangement also permitted a better armor configuration when using very large diameter turret rings.'

Even if the two front tracks were disabled, the two remaining rear tracks would permit the tank to maneuver under its own power. One of the most attractive features of the four track system was its reduced vulnerability to mine damage. Sketches of such an arrangement appeared in a presentation on tank and automotive development to the Research and Development Board on and a preliminary study of a four track tank with a hydrostatic drive was carried out at the Arsenal by Joseph Williams and Clifford Bradley. Preliminary studies of a four track tank had been in progress for some time at Detroit Arsenal. One was to produce a concept of a new medium tank with a four track suspension system and the other considered a new medium tank with the usual two track suspension. 'Chrysler Corporation received two contracts under the research and development program. If they were mad enough to build not one but two T95s and actually making serious considerations in using them to invade Japan of all places they're mad enough to tackle quad threads again.įrom: Abrams: A History of the American MBT by R.P. Of course the Murica is also a pretty mad world. This rendition courtesy of Red Alert: A Path Beyond

You might think that's utterly daft doubling the number of drive sprockets, increasing the ground pressure and doubling the tracks to keep properly tensioned and maintained it could've only came from a mind of an artist unfamiliar with the world of mechanical engineering and conceptualizing something justifiably as mad as the world envisioned in Tiberian Dawn.

One of its most noticeable features is that there are 2 pairs of tracks in a peculiar configuration as in not in the same way the T95 or Object 279 has two pairs of tracks. Some of you may be familiar with the Mammoth tank from Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn or Red Alert.

Mammoth tank command and conquer