Roadside bomb attacks against the United States to develop gas-free tires

U.S. troops in Iraq have been frequent roadside bomb attacks, even though they took the Hummer off-road vehicles have armor protection, pneumatic tires, but is often hit by shrapnel leakage. In order to reduce casualties, the Pentagon has financed a large amount of money an American company not to develop inflated tires. Even if such a Hummer faced bomb attacks, the same can be quickly out of the woods.

A Lima, chief engineer of the company with even said that he invented the gas-free tires and tire inflation is the greatest difference between the use of plastic instead of compressed air. Airless tire idea is not new, but in the past without the existence of gas tire poor heat and noise, and other major defects. Mane said that even he has found a way to overcome these deficiencies.

The Pentagon also on trial, he had a great interest in this specialized 11,000,000 U.S. dollars grant-funded research project. U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research and Development Engineering Center spokesman Paul Meinai Yi said that the U.S. Army on the air without tires also interested in the reasons for logistics support. He said no air tires do not have to have frequent replacement of the advantages of light than conventional tires.

The Pentagon spokesman said the army, the U.S. Army a year consumed 200,000 Hummer terrain vehicle tires.