Re: Local UPARMORING - Rhodesia/South Africa did it, why can't we?

From: Michael Emrys (emrys_at_olypen.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:39:17 -0800

in article 41d17446$1@news.acsalaska.net, Abrigon Gusiq at abrigon@yahoo.com
wrote on 12/28/04 6:55 AM:

> For a vehicle like the VW, if you raise the center up, you can compensate with
> more wieght to the sides, sort of like outriggers...

That really wouldn't help the tip-over problem much. What you'd need to do
is increase the tread width of the vehicle. That's not easy to do without a
complete redesign of the chassis.

Michael

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