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US Army testing airless tyres

  • 11-09-2009 1:20pm
    #1
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Assuming this is not an elaborate hoax or joke :confused:
    airlesstires-thumb-550x391-23847.jpg

    BUILDING A BETTER TIRE:Resilient Technologies's "non-pneumatic tire" (NPT) is designed to continue supporting the Humvee get troops out of harm's way even if a roadside landmine or small arms attack destroys up to 30 percent of the tire's honeycomb structure.

    source


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  • #2
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    I thought they were testing them a year or 2 ago.
    Makes sense anyway


  • #3
    Burnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Burnt


    Not the first time militaries have done this, the Germans made tires using springs during one or other of the WW's due to rubber shortages


    http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/Besa15w.jpg

    there exist of a car in german 1917 with spring loaded iron tires, but i can't find a photo of it on line


  • #4
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Perhaps Manic might know some more details on this...


  • #5
    LD 50
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    I would have thought they'd have thought of something like this along time ago.


  • #6
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Not a new concept, I remember seeing them tested on civilian cars over five years ago.

    Never took off, probably because they're too "Different".

    NTM


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  • #7
    seithon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭seithon


    Yup I remember seeing a program about them being tested a few years back.. one of the big car firms was doing it. Their apparently really good no idea why they didn't take off.


  • #8
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    seithon wrote: »
    Yup I remember seeing a program about them being tested a few years back.. one of the big car firms was doing it. Their apparently really good no idea why they didn't take off.

    Would they be quite noisy? I also imagine they'd displace a hellofalot more water or mud than a standart tyre, not to mention what would build up inside.

    Reminds me of the old tyres you'd get with lego..:rolleyes:


  • #9
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    goldie fish wrote: »
    Would they be quite noisy? I also imagine they'd displace a hellofalot more water or mud than a standart tyre, not to mention what would build up inside.
    I wonder if the above is merely a demonstration model, with real ones being (somewhat) sealed.
    Reminds me of the old tyres you'd get with lego..:rolleyes:
    Indeed.


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