Stress of the Steering Mechanism of Combat Tracked Vehicles

The track lines are one of the great benefit of tracked vehicles - enable to achieve much better movement capability on the heavy terrain than the wheeled vehicles. On the other side the track lines are source of the vibrations and additive dynamic stress of the propulsion mechanism This mechanism is also source of additive internal resistance and external resistances, which means the higher values of the power loses. Principle of tracked vehicles turning is very different from principle of the wheeled vehicles and it is the source of additional resistance, too. This paper focuses on directional devices of the tracked vehicles.