METHOD FOR INCREASING COMBAT VEHICLE CROSS-COUNTRY CAPACITY AND COMBAT VEHICLE PROPULSOR Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC B62D55/08 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: set of inventions relates to increasing of heavy tank cross-country capacity on soil and meadow bases and to propulsor design. These are implemented as follows. The platform is arranged at two front and rear pairs of lengthwise caterpillar propulsors arranged one after another to turn in vertical plane and to be turned by power cylinders around mirror plane of the load-bearing surface of the front pair of propulsors in horizontal plane above said platform in ball bearings. Pivots couple said platform with the frame of every pair of caterpillar propulsors. Caterpillar propulsors are spaced apart in said pairs. Frame of the front pair of propulsors is made of two composite inner and outer parts displacing relative to each other. Rubber-metallic caterpillars in every pair of propulsors are convexed in crosswise and lengthwise directions to diameter D_sph by setting the surface of road and guide pneumatic wheels to radius R = D_sph/2-δ.

EFFECT: higher cross-country capacity.

2 cl, 3 dwg