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New trucks get rave reviews from troops
Heavy vehicles offer increased protection, heavier payloads
by WO Brad Phillips
CFB PETAWAWA, Ontario — The armoured heavy support vehicle systems (AHSVS) have hit the ground rolling in Afghanistan and Canada. The trucks are receiving rave reviews from the troops for both the increased protection they offer the crews and the heavier payloads they manage.
“The pucker factor is gone, pretty much,” says Master Corporal Terry von Stackelberg, a veteran of Afghanistan. He is one in a cadre of instructors bringing mechanics in Canada up to speed on the new vehicles.
“We can now lift, transport or pull anything we have in the Canadian Forces inventory,” says Réjean Picotin, a senior technologist with Director Support Vehicles Program Management.” [The troops] love them; they just love them.”
AHSVS are employed in combat service support and combat tasks in Afghanistan. They provide high levels of crew protection, combining mine blast resistance with protection against both improvised explosive devices and ballistic threats.
“The key factor is to save lives,” says Royal Canadian Dragoons member MCpl Shaun Alton, one of the technicians on the AHSVS course held in Petawawa. “The cab design alone is phenomenal.”
Cab details such as a water chiller to keep water at a drinkable temperature and a safe, secure storage system for their kit were designed with troops in mind. Air-ride seats and a surprisingly good field of vision allow the operators to handle these mammoth trucks with ease.
The fleet’s four main variants are:
material handling crane vehicles;
recovery vehicles;
heavy tank transporter tractor vehicles; and
palletized loading systems with container handling unit vehicles.
MCpl Michael Reynolds (left) and MCpl David Sheppard hook up a disabled heavy logistic vehicle wheeled to the new AHSVS wrecker. With its well protected, state-of-the-art cab and beefed-up recovery package, the wrecker is already proving itself in Afghanistan.
by WO BRAD PHILLIPS
Three variants of the AHSVS wait to be put through their paces by electrical and mechanical engineering technicians at CFB Petawawa. The technicians will then pass on their newly acquired expertise to their own units.
MCpl Terry von Stackelberg, 2 Service Battalion, operates the stinger controls of the new AHSVS wrecker while Cpl Randy Desarmeau, 2 Field Ambulance, looks on.
New trucks get rave reviews from troops
Heavy vehicles offer increased protection, heavier payloads
by WO Brad Phillips
CFB PETAWAWA, Ontario — The armoured heavy support vehicle systems (AHSVS) have hit the ground rolling in Afghanistan and Canada. The trucks are receiving rave reviews from the troops for both the increased protection they offer the crews and the heavier payloads they manage.
“The pucker factor is gone, pretty much,” says Master Corporal Terry von Stackelberg, a veteran of Afghanistan. He is one in a cadre of instructors bringing mechanics in Canada up to speed on the new vehicles.
“We can now lift, transport or pull anything we have in the Canadian Forces inventory,” says Réjean Picotin, a senior technologist with Director Support Vehicles Program Management.” [The troops] love them; they just love them.”
AHSVS are employed in combat service support and combat tasks in Afghanistan. They provide high levels of crew protection, combining mine blast resistance with protection against both improvised explosive devices and ballistic threats.
“The key factor is to save lives,” says Royal Canadian Dragoons member MCpl Shaun Alton, one of the technicians on the AHSVS course held in Petawawa. “The cab design alone is phenomenal.”
Cab details such as a water chiller to keep water at a drinkable temperature and a safe, secure storage system for their kit were designed with troops in mind. Air-ride seats and a surprisingly good field of vision allow the operators to handle these mammoth trucks with ease.
The fleet’s four main variants are:
material handling crane vehicles;
recovery vehicles;
heavy tank transporter tractor vehicles; and
palletized loading systems with container handling unit vehicles.
MCpl Michael Reynolds (left) and MCpl David Sheppard hook up a disabled heavy logistic vehicle wheeled to the new AHSVS wrecker. With its well protected, state-of-the-art cab and beefed-up recovery package, the wrecker is already proving itself in Afghanistan.
by WO BRAD PHILLIPS
Three variants of the AHSVS wait to be put through their paces by electrical and mechanical engineering technicians at CFB Petawawa. The technicians will then pass on their newly acquired expertise to their own units.
MCpl Terry von Stackelberg, 2 Service Battalion, operates the stinger controls of the new AHSVS wrecker while Cpl Randy Desarmeau, 2 Field Ambulance, looks on.
