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As military vehicles and equipment have evolved into complex machines with advanced powertrains and electronics, enhanced performance test procedures have been developed to put them through their paces.
An important apparatus for this is the mobile field dynamometer, a massive vehicle capable of putting up to a 60,000 pound load on the Army’s heaviest vehicles, such as the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.
Adding additional mobile or trailer dynamometers can increase the load even more, sometimes exceeding 100,000 pounds.
“All vehicles that go through testing at YPG—tracked and wheeled—need to be stressed,” said Jose Rodriguez, electronics team lead in YPG’s Engineering Support Branch. “You want to stress the internals like the transmission and the engine to their breaking limit, and the way to do so is to put them under a load.”
| Date Taken: | 07.24.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 04.25.2022 15:30 |
| Photo ID: | 7140172 |
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| Resolution: | 3072x2304 |
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| Location: | YUMA PROVING GROUND, ARIZONA, US |
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Yuma Proving Ground vehicle testing capability gets major upgrade
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