m88 hercules The M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System (HERCULES) improved Recovery Vehicle is the recovery system of choice for today's 70-ton combat vehicles..
m88 personnel carrier The US and Lithuanian militaries have discovered an American-owned M88 Hercules armored repair vehicle. She was flooded in a pond at the landfill. At the time of the disappearance, there were four US military personnel in the car, whose fate remains...
m88 hercules peat bog The M88A1 began to struggle with the introduction of the M1 Abrams and especially the M1A1, which weighed ~28,000lb (~12,700kg) more than the M60 that the M88 had been initially intended to recover: two M88A1s were required to safely tow an Abrams tank. Thus, the M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System (HERCULES) was introduced in July 1997. The M88A2 used the ...