M88 Armored Recovery Vehicle

• Author(s): David Doyle,
• Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications
• Pages: 80
• ISBN_10: 0897475992
  ISBN_13: 9780897475990
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / Weapons , History / Military / Vehicles / Land , Technology & Engineering / Military Science ,

Description:... The M88 Armored Recovery Vehicle was designed and developed in the late 1950s to handle recovery of the heavier and more massive tanks that of the time. Armored like a tank and incorporating the suspension and drivetrain of the M48/M60 tanks, the M88 ARV is equipped with a massive winch and a hydraulically raised A-frame boom with 400 feet of 5/8-inch wire rope. The M88's original gasoline engine served the vehicle well during its years of duty in Vietnam in the 1970s.