paradeduty
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Well Everyone, after al lot of patient years (about 15) the truck that I have been waiting for is finally home!!
About 1994 I stumbled on this truck at a research facility and it finally came up for auction and I was lucky enough to be able to bring her home.
From everything that I have been able to put together, it is a one-off custom prototype put together by TACOM in Michigan back in the mid to late 1970's.
I believe that it was a test bed to check the viability of some ideas/equipment for use on the soon to be designed HEMTT series of trucks.
Note - this truck is not a HEMTT but rather a HMTT (High Mobility Tactical Truck).
This truck does appear in the "U. S. Military Wheeled Vehicles" book by Fred Crismon on bottom left of page 394.
Again, I think this is the only one of these built, at least on a 5-ton chassis.
The only change of signifigance that seems to have occured over the years is the self-loading crane (by HIAB). Seems to be a slightly different unit with manual outrigger supports.
Dave
About 1994 I stumbled on this truck at a research facility and it finally came up for auction and I was lucky enough to be able to bring her home.
From everything that I have been able to put together, it is a one-off custom prototype put together by TACOM in Michigan back in the mid to late 1970's.
I believe that it was a test bed to check the viability of some ideas/equipment for use on the soon to be designed HEMTT series of trucks.
Note - this truck is not a HEMTT but rather a HMTT (High Mobility Tactical Truck).
This truck does appear in the "U. S. Military Wheeled Vehicles" book by Fred Crismon on bottom left of page 394.
Again, I think this is the only one of these built, at least on a 5-ton chassis.
The only change of signifigance that seems to have occured over the years is the self-loading crane (by HIAB). Seems to be a slightly different unit with manual outrigger supports.
Dave
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