With the Oshkosh Heavy Tactical Armored Bridge Layer (AVLB / Mobile Bridge Platform), you can deploy, retrieve and move a bridge quickly while supporting mobility. It brings together a heavy-duty tactical chassis, hydraulic launching equipment and a Military Load Class (MLC) bridge span.
Features
- Oshkosh High-Mobility Heavy Chassis: You get a heavy-duty, all-wheel-drive tactical chassis, such as the HEMTT 8×8 or LVSR series. It is made to handle the massive deadweight and shifting torque of a folding scissors or telescopic bridge.
- Rapid-Deployment Hydraulic Launching System: Use the heavy-duty front/rear hydraulic launching boom and winch mechanism to mechanically extend, unfold and lay the armored bridge span. Crew members do not need to leave the armored cab.
- Scissor/Telescopic MLC Bridge Span: The vehicle carries a Military Load Class (MLC) heavy alloy bridge. It can span wide trenches, anti-tank ditches, small rivers and collapsed road sections for heavy armor and logistics vehicles.
- Front Anchoring & Counterweight Outriggers: Front-mounted hydraulic spade anchors and stabilizer legs push into the soil. They counterbalance the bridge’s cantilever weight while you deploy or retrieve it.
- Gap Crossing & Mobility Support: This is built for quickly bridging natural and man-made obstacles, including rivers, ravines, destroyed bridges and anti-tank trenches, so armored and motorized columns can keep their momentum.
- Under-Fire Engineering Operations: Forward combat engineers can lay a crossable bridge in minutes under armor protection. That lets assault forces bypass choke points.
- Retrieval & Reusability: Once the military column crosses, attach the vehicle to the far or near end of the bridge. Then fold it back onto the chassis and move forward with the advance.
- Complex Hydraulic Kinematics: Watch the multi-stage launching animations handle boom elevation, bridge unfolding and extension, plus anchoring spade deployment.
- Dynamic Ground Physics & Bridging Functionality: Put it to work in the simulation to turn impassable terrain gaps into navigable roads for all the other vehicles in your mod collection.
