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2. Vehicle recovery - Wikipedia

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   A recovery vehicle performs a lift tow. The lift tow is the most common modern method for short distance transportation. The casualty is winched onto a lifting grid and then raised by lifting the grid, with the casualty’s tires strapped to the grid. The grid is shaped like a large pair of spectacles, which accounts for the common name of this ...

3. Tow truck - Wikipedia

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   Tow truck. A modern Dodge Ram tow truck. A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck, recovery vehicle or a breakdown lorry) is a truck used to move disabled, improperly parked, impounded, or otherwise indisposed motor vehicles. This may involve recovering a vehicle damaged in an accident, returning one to a drivable surface in a ...

4. Logistic Vehicle System Replacement - Wikipedia

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   The Logistic Vehicle System Replacement ( LVSR) is a family of heavy-duty military logistics vehicles of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) based on a common 5-axle ten-wheel drive (10x10) chassis. The vehicles vary in individual configuration by mission requirements, with three variants in service: a cargo, a wrecker and a tractor truck.

5. Towing - Wikipedia

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   A Morris C8 towing a 25-pounder Tank recovery vehicles are designed to pull very heavy loads in all conditions, including battle. Towing capacity is a measure describing the upper limit to the weight of a trailer a vehicle can tow and may be expressed in pounds or kilograms.

6. Logistics Vehicle System - Wikipedia

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   The Logistics Vehicle System ( LVS ), nicknamed by U.S. Marines as "Dragon Wagon", is a modular assortment of eight-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle unit combinations used by the United States Marine Corps . The LVS was fielded in 1985 as the Marine Corps heavy tactical vehicle system. [1] It was designed and manufactured by the Oshkosh Corporation.

7. Warrior tracked armoured vehicle - Wikipedia

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   The Warrior tracked vehicle family is a series of British armoured vehicles, originally developed to replace FV430 series armoured vehicles. The Warrior started life as the MCV-80, "Mechanised Combat Vehicle for the 1980s". One of the requirements of the new vehicle was a top speed able to keep up with the projected new MBT, the MBT-80 ...