Modified M777ER

[Flavus101]

That is a pretty interesting system.

I wonder how long it takes to set up the piece to be craned onto and off of the back?

 

[Cloud Cover]

Canada would never buy it, it is a truck that can travel off the road.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Canada would never buy it, it is a truck that can travel off the road.

ROFL...

 

[Colin Parkinson]

That truck appears to have almost no ground clearance and doors designed to snag webbing.

 

[Kirkhill]

That truck appears to have almost no ground clearance and doors designed to snag webbing.

The 8x6 Portee System is a new vehicle design utilising suspension technology developed for Supacat's highly successful High Mobility Truck (HMT) 'family’. These vehicles are now entering service in 2-axle and 3-axle form with both the UK and US armed forces. They offer a significant improvement in mobility over other wheeled military vehicles. The HMT suspension system makes the Portee ideally suited to operation over difficult and demanding terrain.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/69665/int'l-debut-for-self_propelled-m777-gun-(jun-13).html


The HMT series includes the Jackal and Coyote vehicles.  Ground clearance is variable from 180 mm to 485 mm.  I would anticipate something similar with the Portee vehicle.

http://supacat.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/07/Supacat_HMT-400_Data-Sheets_V1.0.pdf
http://supacat.com/products/hmt/

 

[Colin Parkinson]

thanks I was wondering if it had variable suspension

 

[cupper]

So, is it mandatory in all equipment demo videos to have the vehicle drive through a deep water hole? [

 

[Good2Golf]

So, is it mandatory in all equipment demo videos to have the vehicle drive through a deep water hole? [

That's not water...it's a pool filled with Unicorn tears, the cost of which was most likely included in the company's Definition-phase cost estimates of their proposal under the innocuous line item of: "Environmental Testing Consummables - Liquid-phase Obscurants and Friction-modifiers."