TV1000 Rhino – Walk Around

Photo gallery of a TV1000 Rhino, It was designed by the Fighting Vehicle Research and Development Establishment in Surrey in 1959 mainly as a test rig for various transmission systems and was remarkable, for its time, in that it skid steered like a tracked vehicle rather than the conventional method, like a car. It is powered by a Rover Meteorite V8 petrol engine rated at 535 bhp and was reckoned, in its day, to be the most powerful wheeled vehicle in the world. The wheels are fitted with huge (1800×24) heavy duty cross-country tyres which, originally, had variable pressure control. Although it was never intended to be a combat vehicle in its own right Rhino Lulworth에서 공항용 구축전차인 Contentious의 바퀴 달린 라이벌로 테스트되었습니다. 총기 조준경이 장착되었고 운전자는 Rhino를 몰고 전국을 가로질러 운전할 때 조준경에 표적 탱크를 유지하라는 지시를 받았습니다.

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