US Army Goes Green Unveils First Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System
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US Army Goes Green Unveils First Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System
The U.S. Army unveiled its first hybrid-electric propulsion system for a new fleet of Manned Ground Vehicles (MGVs). The Army is developing and building eight new MGV variants for 15 Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Teams (FCS BCTs). All eight commonly-designed MGV variants will provide Soldiers with enhanced survivability, increased speed and mobility, new network-based capabilities, and more modern, modular technology. All the eight variants will have a common chassis saving the army a great deal of money. For the first time the Army will be integrating a functional hybrid-electric drive system into a combat vehicle. The drive system is part of the propulsion system that will power the vehicles.
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The Army realized the M1A Abrams is only as good as the fuel carriers that follow. They've figured out that it takes oil to go to war and as an importing, oil nation, there is something very, very wrong about that picture and national security.
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Re: US Army Goes Green Unveils First Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System
Another news item just in, the army is testing a vehicle that runs on a fuel derived from maple syrup and bacon. Leaders in Canada are getting increasingly worried over the prospects of a future invasion by the USA to secure a supply to this new fuel source. 
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