On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:25:28 -0600, Ignoramus9904
wrote:

On 2013-03-07, wrote:
On Mar 6, 8:43?pm, Ignoramus9904
wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/...ducing-flat-pr...

``Engineers shot test tires with 50-caliber rounds from an AK-47 and
then subjected them to 5,000 hours of off-roading.''

-Probaably meant to say ``Engineers shot test tires with 50 rounds
from an AK-47 and
then subjected them to 5,000 hours of off-roading.''

A 50 caliber round would happily go through the wheen, the hub and
maybe even the axle.

It didn't sound like they were shooting through the axle. g Look up
the stories published when Polaris was first pushing the military use
of their new tire, last fall. Here's one:

http://www.airless-tire.com/?p=428

Here's another:

http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/...-non-pneumatic

It sounded like they were going for an impressive demonstration of how
immune the tread and the actual tire, or what would be the "tire," can
be to military threats.

--
Ed Huntress