MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Presentation
on
VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION
Vehicle
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 Vehicles operated in the army are primarily used as carriers of
weapons, necessary combat and logistics equipment and as means of
transportation and protection of sub-units of infantry.
 Conformity to all requirements placed on military vehicles in a single
vehicle is impossible and results mainly from mutually exclusive
requirements, e.g. high resistance of a vehicle to enemy fire (high
weight) and its dynamic characteristics. Thus, depending on the
predicted use of military vehicles, they have been given specific
performance characteristics.
 The diversity of vehicle characteristics caused the creation of a
multitude of such vehicles differing in, e.g. use, maximum acceptable
total weight (combat), ability to overcome obstacles, level of resistance
to fire and others.
Military vehicles’ diversity caused the need to classify them for various
reasons. The
effects of assumed different classifications of military vehicles are
described in appropriate
normative documents. It is often difficult to find a common part in the
accepted classifications,
which causes misunderstandings between interlocutors using different
classifications. This results
mainly from the possibility to classify a given military vehicle to different
groups, types of
adopted classification. Attempts to merge several classifications into one
are also not uncommon,
the fact of which speaks of the incomprehension of the problem, which
often leads to unexpected
effects. The difficulty of establishing an unequivocal terminology and
classification of military
vehicles had formed the base for this work.
 ON ROAD VEHICLES:
CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS:
FHWA*
Road Type
AREA TYPE
ROAD TYPE
1
Rural
Rural Principal Arterial - Interstate
11
2
Rural
Rural Principal Arterial - Other
13
6
Rural
Rural Minor Arterial
15
7
Rural
Rural Major Collector
17
8
Rural
Rural Minor Collector
19
9
Rural
Rural Local
21
11
Urban
Urban Principal Arterial - Interstate
23
12
Urban
25
14
Urban
Urban Principal Arterial - Other
Freeways
Urban Principal Arterial - Other
16
Urban
Urban Minor Arterial
29
17
Urban
Urban Collector
31
19
Urban
Urban Local
33
*HPMS: Highway Performance Monitoring System
**FHWA: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
HPMS*
27
SR. NO.
1
2
3
4
5
FHWA CLASS
Passenger Cars
Other 2-axle/ 4- tire Vehicles
Single-unit Trucks
Buses
Combination Trucks
FHWA CLASS
NO.
MOVES ROAD
TYPE
2
All
3
All
3
All
6
1, 3, 5
5–7
1, 3, 5
5–7
2, 4
2, 4
5
2, 4
4
2, 4
4
1, 3, 5
4
1, 3, 5
8–12
1, 3, 5
2, 4
6
Motorcycles
8–12
2, 4
1
All
 OFF ROAD VEHICALS:
1.WHEELED OFF ROAD VEHICLES
 OFF ROAD VEHICALS:
2. TRACKED VEHICAL:
ARJUN MK-2
RIPSAW
CLASSIFICATION OF MILITARY VEHICLES:
ARJUN VS T-90:
SR. NO.
ARJUN
T-90
Type
Main battle tank
Main battle tank
Origin
India
Russia
Produced
2004
1992
Cost
8.3 million $
4.5 million $
Main armament
120 mm rifled gun
2A46M 125 mm smoothbore gun
with 43 rounds
Engine
1400 HP
950 HP
Speed
72 km/h (45 mph)
60 km/h (37 mph)
Weight
58.5 tonnes
46 tonnes
Crew
4
3
Length
10.64 m
9.63 m
Width
3.86 m
3.78 m
Height
2.32 m
2.22 m
 AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES:
HOVERCRAFT:
1. The “hovercraft” was invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell.
2. The SRN1 made its first hover on 11 June 1959.
3. The highest recorded speed by a hovercraft is 137.4 km/h (85.38 mph), by
Bob Windt (USA) at the 1995 World Hovercraft Championships on the Rio
Douro River, Peso de Regua, Portugal.
4. Hovercraft are used as ice breakers using resonance.
5. it is also used by military for rescue purpose.
SR.N1
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