Some are still serving as heavy transports of other military equipment, such as cargo handling equipment.In recent years, Snowflake has gained steam in the Cloud-based Data Warehouse space. However, they demonstrated poor durability when loads exceeded 60 tons. ĭuring Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm the M911 vehicles were employed primarily to haul M1 Abrams tanks. The lift axle, 8×6, Oshkosh M911 superseded the M746 after 1977.The M746 was an 8×8, 22 1⁄ 2-ton tractor built by Ward LaFrance from 1975 to 1977.Army employed the Commercial Heavy Equipment Transporter (C-HET), which consisted of either the M746 or the M911 truck tractor and the M747 semitrailer. Previous Heavy Equipment Transports M25 Tank Transporter The UK version ( M1070F) is compliant with European legislation on emissions (EURO III). The M1070 replaced the Scammell Commander as the British Army heavy tank transporter in 2001.The M1070 and M1000 are both air-transportable by C-5 Galaxy or C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.By July 2009 more than 2600 M1000 trailers had been ordered. A production order for 1,066 M1000 units was placed by the U.S. The M1000 was originally developed as a private venture by Southwest Mobile Systems (later Systems & Electronics Inc (SEI), now DRS Technologies) as a response to a possible US Army requirement for transporting M1 and M1A1 MBTs. The M1000 trailer is used with the M1070A0 and M1070A1 tractors. Production of the M1070A1 concluded in August 2014, with 1,591 new vehicles built. Oshkosh announced in October 2010 its first delivery order for the M1070A1 HET.

Army to begin engineering and initial production of the next-generation of HET.

In March 2008, Oshkosh Defense announced a contract award from the U.S. Army as a possible Technology Insertion Program (TIP) for the M1070.

The M1070E1 model was developed in the mid-1990s in conjunction with the U.S. Following extensive use, some M1070s have been Reset to original build standard by Oshkosh.

A total of 2,488 A0 versions were delivered to the U.S. These were delivered between March 2001 and March 2003. Army contract for the original A0 version called for 195 vehicles. A contract for 1044 M1070s was placed, with production commencing in July 1992. To meet a US Army requirement for the transport of the M1 Abrams series main battle tank (MBT) Oshkosh Truck Corporation (now Oshkosh Defense) proposed the M1070.

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