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If you were around some time agone, you may recall seeing that the planned US tech tree included some tanks labelled 'Yoh' around the college tiers. They've since dropped off, but that'due south not important correct at present.

The well-read will recognize that 'Yoh' referred to the H.L. Yoh company, which submitted a number of proposed tank designs to the Army. The problem existence that the only known pictures and data which existed publicly were some brief mentions and very minor artists impressions to be found in Hunnicutt'due south "Abrams" such as the post-obit:

Well, I similar a challenge, so I went hunting. The first thing I did was to call the H.L. Yoh Visitor of Pennsylvania themselves, to encounter if they happened to have anything in the visitor archives. The beginning difficulty was in verifying that I had, indeed, reached the correct visitor.

Y'all encounter, if you lot become to their website today, you find that they are a human resources provider. They provide staffing for your company'south needs. Non very much in there well-nigh construction or product, let alone tanks. There is at present a history section of the website (there wasn't at the time), which does reference some engineering work way back in the 1940s through 60s, but without fifty-fifty that link, all I could exercise was pick upwards the 'phone, dial the number, and start asking around.

Nobody seemed to know anything virtually the H.L. Yoh Visitor'southward armed services past, though certainly nobody working in that location could tell me that they hadn't had ane either: Nobody had been around that long. They certainly didn't have whatsoever knowledge of any old tank designs sitting around the back shelves anywhere.

As a result, when I was in the Archives some time ago, I kept an eye out for annihilation which seemed to be Yoh-related. Two items were plant in the classified sections from the 1950s. 1 was a fairly benign (and hefty) certificate assessing the ergonomics of a certain SPG, the other I establish to exist far more than interesting. An FOIA request saw the binder de-classified 3 days after I left the Archives. Suffice to say that on my next return, it was the first thing I scanned.

The Yoh visitor tin can be said to have been thinking 'outside the box' in sure aspects. In other aspects, information technology was yet in the pre-war box. The following items are of design features they proposed for future vehicles. The foreword states equally follows:

In presenting the following special features, we take full-bodied on the vital elements of a medium tank's function. Each of the ten features is capable of beingness further adult into a applied and efficient component. Most of the proposals may be readily adapted or modified to allow their incorporation into the present twenty-four hour period tank.

At present, here'southward the odd matter. A number of the below proposals are described and even shown (modest) in the Hunnicutt book. But in order to encounter the binder in the Athenaeum, I had to have my security clearence verified then be granted admission to the classified reading room in the Archives where, of course, no reproduction equipment is authorised. Why they were still classified can probably merely exist put down to bureaucracy never declassifying them, but classified they however were. How did Hunnicutt get them printed? Of course, the man has been dead some years at present, and I'm unlikely to e'er find the answer.

Nosotros can offset off with ane of the more sensible proposals.

Information technology says:

The new gun shield incorporates many desirable factors. The primary feature consists of the weight being concentrated aft of the trunnion, helping to balance the gun. The shield is composed of a lite weight cored casting, to which the gun cradle is attached, permitting the gun to recoil. The sloped front provides splendid obliquity. The turret opening is completely sealed by the unique contour which maintains a minimum gap betwixt the shield and turret.

OK, reasonable enough.

The second suggestion was an ammunition hoist, to help the loader grab those heavy rounds

Described thusly:

An armament grab has been adult in an effort to provide the simplest possible kind of assistance in lifting heavy shells. The grab is held in the loader's left manus, leaving his right mitt free to guide and control the motion of the circular. All controls for the hoist and grab are incorporated in the grab itself. Squeezing the latch, grips and locks the grab on the shell. Pressure is released by squeezing the trigger. The grab may also be used to replenish the ready racks. When non in use, the grab may exist compactly stowed near the turret roof.

Although I'm OK with the concept for, say, larger artillery shells, I'm unsure that this is in any way faster than traditional transmission loading of what seems in the image to be a 90mm round. The other business concern I accept is that the clamp exist tight plenty to prevent the round from slipping, but not then tight as to deform the shell casing and prevent it from beingness chambered.

Proffer #iii is an armoured ready rack.

This method of stowing the "Gear up" armament offers maximum condom to the crew. Information technology eliminates the burn down risk thru which 90% of the tanks were lost in World State of war Ii. The device will prevent fragments from striking the ammunition. If a projectile does enter the rack, the resulting ammunition burn would be vented out of the tank, saving coiffure and equipment. In addition to the protection feature, the commander tin select the proper round by remote control. The loader receives the round in a position that allows ease of handling.

The idea is sensible enough, and indeed, as a concept information technology bears a fairly reasonable similarity to the revolving ready rack/semi-autoloader currently in production on the Merkava IV tank. On the downside, it seems to take a lot of room inside the turret, I think the diagram understates things a bit. Also unsure if the hatch truly will be strong enough to divert an armament explosion up through the bottleneck chimney. Yet, interesting example of thought.

A couple of autoloaders are suggestions 4 and 5.

The hurry autoloader is virtually sensible, and indeed bears a good resemblance to the cassette autoloaders found in modernistic tanks. The only difference seems to be a gravity feed to the conveyor belt.

This proposal indicates a method of loading the gun automatically. 18 rounds of 105-mm armament are stowed in the machinery located in the "Hurry" of the turret. The commander presses a push indicating the desired type of ammunition. A tray then receives the round from the storage compartment and conveys it to the heart of the gun. A pushing arm rams the round into the breech and waits in a higher place the breech for the gun to be fired. Subsequently recoil and beat out ejection, the pusher reverses and discards the empty casing out of the tank, coming to rest in a position to receive the next circular.

As to the other option:

A revolving magazine houses the necessary rounds of 105-mm ammunition. By remote option, the mag indexes until the desired circular is in line with the gun. A plunger, housing the firing mechanism, then moves the shell into the gun tube and locks to provide obturation. As the projectile moves forrad when fired, it passes a port permitting gas pressure level to unlock the breech plunger. Some of the remaining gas pressure forces the empty casing back into the magazine with the breech plunger behind it. The gun is then set up to receive the next round.

This as well strikes me as being something probable to take a meaning amount of room. The round revolver in the Styker MGS isn't small.

Perchance the well-nigh pressing problem is that it looks like the entire revolver is permanently affixed to the gun, thus adding to the gun'southward overall weight (and difficulty in moving information technology), and of course, the amount of room it needs to movement upward and down. That may be something which can be fixed by calculation a sliding block organization, just we're notwithstanding looking at a lot of room. Unsure how gun recoil is supposed to exist handled, it looks like a nada-recoil system.

Option #half dozen starts to get a little silly.

From a written report made of the functions of each fellow member of the crew, it was adamant that the loader is all-time suited to man an auxiliary auto gun. This arrangement indicates that the gun volition not interfere with the normal duties of the loader, due to the fact that it may be out of the style. When in apply, the gun tin traverse 120° and elevate 35 °, covering the left side of the tank. Protection from frontal attack is offered by the turret itself. This proposal permits freedom of gun movement, plus ample protection from bullet splash.

Daze absorbers positioning for #vii, I'one thousand not even sure required an cess equally various angles have been long tried.

Unsure if they specifically meant 'Christie suspension', or if it was just an early example of misusing the term to indicate individually sprung roadwheel arms. If the old, it'due south pretty much redundant as Christie had been long discarded, and if the latter, events take shown that the horizontal shocks weren't required.

The Yoh engineers seemed to take some effort towards the concept of propulsion later a mine strike or other such impairment to the runway, so suggestion #8 was…

The "Track inside a Rails" is a method of applying power to the bogie wheels in an emergency. Information technology is mounted between the rear iii wheels and the master track, and is driven by the master drive sprocket. It is bachelor at all times in the issue the main track is thrown, damaged past a land mine or subjected to enemy fire. When the main track is lost it will be unnecessary for the crew to expose themselves while making repairs. Its boosted weight is negligible. If it is the ways of saving the coiffure and tank the price would be insignificant.

I am somewhat amused by the assumption that when the track is broken that the diverse pieces of pause etc volition be flung clear and that the 'inner' track will simply allow motility without restriction. I tin can think of a lot of means that the 'full' track could foul the organization and crave the dismounting of the crew earlier using the inner track. And if you're going that far, may as well just short-track, though absolutely that's more than than a five minute job.

Nevertheless, the track-within-the-track idea was far more sensible than the alternate proposal.

This is all the entry had to say on the matter:

The walking device is an unconventional method for providing traction in an emergency. Each foot is powered from the same shaft equally the main sprockets and may be driven independently in either direction. The device is engaged from within the tank when track damage occurs.

I similar the way they describe it equally 'unconventional'. 'Looney' is more likely. Even so, I have left my personal favourite for last.

The supposed benefits:

ane. Engine in turret balances gun

2. Eliminates need for counterweight in bustle

3. Gun pointing forward in normal traveling position

4. Adequate turret infinite for crew

5. Allows shorter and lighter hull

half dozen. Provides infinite for sixty rounds of ammunition

7. Greater fuel storage capacity

So let's see… you're calculation another ton or three of weight for the turret motors to worry about, and center of gravity is going to exist ungodly high.

Only what really grabs my attention is the concept of the better part of a 1000 horsepower being transmitted by manner of an independently-rotating double-sided gear ring nether the turret traverse gear ring. In addition to the sheer bizarreness of the idea, the other thing that I am curious virtually is the trouble of the torque trying to button the turret in the other direction. In that location's going to exist some significant power loss compensating for that, methinks.

I'yard all for creative thinking, but in that location'south probably a reason that the Army never requested the H. L. Yoh company to build annihilation.

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