Description
FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor Selection of FV180 Combat Engineer Vehicle for sale some as low as 18 hours. Bought as part of a new British Army war reserve release. Wonderful vehicle to drive, child’s play servo assisted, everything very fast fully amphibious, massive bucket very useful machines and great fun to use.
General background details from Wikipedia
The FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor or C.E.T. is an amphibious specialist armoured vehicle of the British Army and has been in general service since 1976. A tracked, lightly armoured vehicle, with amphibious capability, the CET is used by Royal Engineers in ground preparation for bridge construction and towing activities in the front line of battle, such as digging vehicle fighting pits, constructing earthen barriers, repairing roads, recovery of disabled vehicles from water and other obstacles, preparing riverbanks for vehicle crossings and clearing obstacles.
The FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor two-man crew sit in tandem positions on the left hand side of the vehicle, each with a set of driving controls facing opposite directions. The FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor is fitted with a large earthmoving bucket at the rear of the vehicle and a rocket-propelled anchor on a 100m hawser attached to an 8 tonne winch can be fitted to the front. When operated from the rear seat the bucket is used for earth moving; clearing obstacles, paths or digging tank or gun pits and anti-tank ditches. When operated from the front-facing seat it can be driven on the road, and the anchor can be used to pull the CET up steep obstacles such as riverbanks. The winch rope can be deployed to the front or the rear of the vehicle with a maximum pull of 8 tonnes in both configurations.
The FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor is NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) proofed and has an air filtration unit, supplying clean air to the crew when operating with the crew hatches closed down in a contaminated environment. The NBC air system is also used to inflate the buoyancy aids required to trim the vehicle when swimming.
An Auxiliary Lifting Attachment (ALA) – a davit with a winch rope roller – fitted to the inside of the earthmoving bucket was used for lifting loads of up to 4tonnes. Loads such as Medium Girder Bridge pallets could be lifted vertically to a height of 1.8m. This then allowed a cargo vehicle to back under the suspended load, the CET could not travel or turn with a suspended load on the ALA due to lateral weakness of the ALA and the proximity of the load to the earthmoving bucket. Use of the ALA was discontinued in the 1990s due to difficulties in annual testing of the safe working load, and a reduced requirement for its use.
In service with the British Army, Indian Army, Singapore Army.
FV180 Combat Engineer Vehicle Specifications
Weight 17.5 tonnes (19.3 short tons; 17.2 long tons)
Length 7.54 m (24 ft 9 in)
Width 2.94 m (9 ft 8 in)
Height 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in)
Crew 2
Armour Honeycombed twin skin aluminium alloy
Main armament None (Crew armed with personal weapons only)
Engine Rolls-Royce C6TFR 320 hp (240 kW)
Power/weight 19 hp/tonne
Suspension Torsion bar
Operational range 480 km (300 mi)
Speed 56 km/h (35 mph) (road) / 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (water)
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV180_Combat_Engineer_Tractor
