Darpa Has Literally Reinvented The Cycle

From Task & Purpose, June 23:

Glorious word for all privates who’ve e'er had to haul a Humvee out of a mud-filled ditch: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 construct novel bike designed past times the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’ (DARPA) could construct the hurting of crude oil terrain a affair of the past. As business office of the Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program to kicking the survivability together with mobility of Army fighting vehicles, DARPA researchers whipped upward high-tech Reconfigurable Wheel-Track (RWT) upgrades that “transition from a circular bike to a triangular rail together with dorsum in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than land the vehicle is on the move” — inwards short, allowing Humvees to transform into tracked vehicles on the fly.

“For mobility, we’ve taken a radically dissimilar approach past times avoiding armor together with developing options to deed apace together with hold upward agile over all terrain.” DARPA GXV-T head Maj. Amber Walker said inwards a June 22 release on the program’s close recent demonstrations. “We hold back frontwards to working amongst the services to transition these technologies into terra firma vehicle technologies of the future.”...

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