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...and why do I feel like I want them?
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Third From Texas
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Is this an airdrop thing? Or something added to the later versions of the 5-ton?
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JATOs attach there.
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See, that would be a valid reason to "want them".
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I thought perhaps some sort of stabilizer to keep the truck inverted during it's drop...
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What’s JATO?
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Side note: I think all the remaining rockets have been expended. It was a NAM era system and the Blue Angles finally ran out of the ordnance.
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So you don’t no what they are! 
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Admiral James Greer:
What are these doors?
Jack Ryan:
Those doors, sir, are the problem. I-I don't know what they are, neither do the British. Perhaps our friends in Murmansk have come up with something new.
What are these doors?
Jack Ryan:
Those doors, sir, are the problem. I-I don't know what they are, neither do the British. Perhaps our friends in Murmansk have come up with something new.
You can have all of them jato do-giggys I want that extendable pintel tube is the bomb i need that with a 3 0r 4 foot tube for my truck
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They look pretty solid, and it Looks like they would be just below the tailgate when it is opened... Maybe a bracket to attach a loading ramp for the dune buggy/heavily armed UTV?
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You'll need to extend your safety chains if you whip that thing out.
Ask me how I know...
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They are one all the '09 airdrops (even the 'lil guys).
As I said, I wonder if it's an airdrop thing or just the very final A1R's. I haven't looked at the P variants yet.
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Maybe it is used in conjunction with the drouge that extracts the truck from the aircraft?
Yea i put a 3ft extension in my 989a1 but those chains still reached had to extend air lines though . And im scared to ask how you know when to whip it out !
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The M1082 safety chains won't reach if the hitch is extended.
The result is a sort of chain-jackknife long before full turn radius is achieved.
I'm sort of glad that I noticed it as I realized how dangerously short the safety chains are on the M1082. In rough terrain that "chain-jackknife" restriction can occur a lot sooner at steeper angles.
The result is a sort of chain-jackknife long before full turn radius is achieved.
I'm sort of glad that I noticed it as I realized how dangerously short the safety chains are on the M1082. In rough terrain that "chain-jackknife" restriction can occur a lot sooner at steeper angles.
If i can buy build scrounge one of those tubes and the frame mount it slides in i think i would put the weld on loops to hang the safety hooks on the end of the tube on both sides of the pintle
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It's part of the airdrop design on later A1 trucks. My 2009 BAE M1093A1 has it but my 2008 S&S M1078A1R doesn't and both have the upgraded alternator, coil over relief springs, etc. So far all late LVAD and LAPES/AD trucks I've seen have it (M1081A1 and M1093A1) but I've yet to see a M1094A1 with it though time will tell. If you scope out the pics below they elevate the truck off the pad to stuff equipment under it. It's possibly used as another weight bearing point and tie down point.
