Every car owner tries to take care of his car in order to extend its life. To do this, you need to listen to the advice given by manufacturers of car covers, engine oils, fuel, anti-corrosion compounds. But it is one thing to take care of a civilian vehicle, and quite another to keep military vehicles in good shape. In this material, it is necessary to touch upon those secrets that are used in military vehicle fleets of various countries of the world, so that military equipment will serve longer.
A large number of such secrets are known to driver mechanics in the Russian army. However, let us review foreign secrets in the field of military vehicles operation.
The first secret: how the British servicemen achieve the greatest cross-country ability on their Ocelot armored vehicles. In order for the armored car of this brand to be easier to control during operations in a desert area, the wheels of the car are poured with icy water thirty to forty minutes before the start of movement. After that, the cracks on the tread of the tires decrease in size, which means that if sand gets into them, it will ideally preserve them and will not allow changing the dynamics of the car's movement unnecessarily. In other words, ice water and sand seem to clog up those microcracks that have appeared on the tire for better adhesion to the surface.
Second secret: how during the Second World War German motorcyclists achieved greater cross-country ability and maneuverability from their "iron horses". In particular, the BMW R75 sidecar motorcycles were "retrofitted" in a very specific way. A large flat stone was often placed in a motorcycle sidecar, which served as a kind of ballast. If the motorcycle driver was driving over rough terrain without a passenger in the "cradle", then the massive stone helped to avoid overturning when the center of gravity was suddenly shifted to the left edge of the motorcycle.
There is another secret connected with motorcycles during the Second World War. Often they were used as improvised sleeping places in those minutes when a halt was announced. To convert a motorcycle with a sidecar into a "double" bed, it was enough to fold out the compartment with the spare wheel. Indeed, a mobile home in the full sense of the word.
