Heavy Assault Bridge

A heavy assault bridge capable of providing responsive horizontally launched bridging in support of heavy combat/tactical maneuver forces. It consists of a turretless abrams tank chassis, a bridge, and launcher. It can span 24 meter gaps and support a mlc 70 loading crossing at 16 kph. It is launched from under armor in 5 minutes and retrieved in 10 minutes. It is operable by a crew of two, and has near equal mobility and survivability with the abrams tank force.