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From: reid@gold.bacs.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: Dune Buggys
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Date: 1 Sep 89 08:01:56 GMT
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From: reid@gold.bacs.indiana.edu


egvideo!timk@watmath.waterloo.edu (Tim Kuehn) writes:
>Supposedly at one time there was a time when dune-buggy's were
>considered for use in combat. 

I read several years ago (possibly in Aviation Week or Defense 
Electronics) that the military dune-buggy project was abandoned when 
field tests showed tanks could easily run them over, being as fast or 
faster and able to go over trees instead of around them. 

--
Frank
reid@gold.bacs.indiana.edu