Army equipments transportation
Meet a US Army demand for the transport of the M1 Abrams series main battle tank (MBT) Oshkosh Truck Corporation ( anymore Oshkosh Defense) proposed the M1070. A contract for 1044 M1070s was placed, with the product commencing in July 1992.
The finalU.S. Army contract for the original A0 interpretation called for 195 vehicles. These were delivered between March 2001 and March 2003. An aggregate of A0 performances was delivered to the theU.S. Army. ( succeeding expansive usage, some M1070s have been Reset to the original figure standard by Oshkosh.The M1070E1 model was developed in the themid-1990s in confluence with theU.S. Army as a possible Technology Insertion Program (TIP) for the M1070. No orders were placed.
In March 2008, Oshkosh Defense blazoned a contract award from theU.S. Army to begin engineering and original product of the coming- generation of HET. Oshkosh blazoned in October 2010 its first delivery order for the M1070A1 HET. The product of the M1070A1 concluded in August 2014, with new vehicles erected. The M1000 caravan is used with the M1070A0 and M1070A1 tractors.
The M1000 was first developed as a private adventure by Southwest Mobile Systems ( latterly Systems & Electronics Inc (SEI), now DRS Technologies) as a response to a possible US Army demand for transporting M1 and M1A1 MBTs. A product order for M1000 units was placed by theU.S. Army in 1989. By July 2009 more than 2600 M1000 campers had been ordered.
The M1070 and M1000 are both air-transmittable by C-5 Galaxy or C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. The M1070 replaced the Scammell Commander as the British Army massive tank transporter in 2001. The UK interpretation (M1070F) is tractable with European legislation on emigrations (EURO III).