Hello peeps, something I've wondered for a while and was just reminded about in another post is the following question; other than them just being interesting, what's the point of a half-track? They're slower than a wheeled vehicle and less manoeverable than a full-track and don't have the climbing ability either. I can only think of a few advantages;
- make use of an available platform, e.g. take a defender and whack some tracks on the back half, but would this save a significant amount over just designing a full-track in the first place? Especially considering the large amount of changes that would be required to the back half (entire new chassis most likely).
- high-speed stability, it can't have been easy to get a tracked vehicle to turn at high-ish speeds using braked tracks, or at least it could have been rather dangerous trying to steer at high speeds using brake levers. Relatively easy to solve in other ways though surely..
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Any more? What's the point of them?
Cheers all, off to Sodbury now!