Prepositioning military vehicles and equipment: Tribology plays a huge role in ensuring that tactical machinery can go from land- or sea-based storage to combat readiness almost immediately

摘要

The January issue of TLT featured an excellent article titled "Mothballing Equipment" that describes the processes and systems for shutting down plants and equipment and then restarting them month, years and, in some cases, even decades later. These and possibly more stringent preparations are needed when prepositioning large numbers of the military's vast fleet of vehicles and equipment The Department of Defense (DOD) maintains stocks of vehicles (both wheeled and tracked), equipment (wheeled' and stationary) and supplies called war reserves that support military units during a war or periods of mobilization These war reserves are stored within the continental United States and are distributed as needed by air and sea.