Airless Tires!
Great, more tax money going to develop these airless tires.
To keep troops from being stranded and easily ambushed on the battlefield, the Army is working with researchers to develop tires for their Humvees that can better withstand roadside attacks. One such design comes from Resilient Technologies, LLC, based in Wausau, Wisc., and the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Polymer Engineering Center. With a four-year, $18-million grant from the Pentagon, Resilient is working to create a “non-pneumatic tire” (NPT) technology, called that because it doesn’t require air.
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