Military engineering vehicle
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#Military_engineering_vehicles
The AEV 3 Kodiak offered by Rheinmetall is a current generation military engineering vehicle; it is built on the base of the Leopard 2 MBT. The EBG combat engineering vehicle,
based on the AMX 30 tank, is used by the engineers of the French Army for a variety of missions.
BAT-M engineering vehicle of Russia and the former Soviet Union A military engineering vehicle is a vehicle built for the construction work or for the transportation of combat engineers on the battlefield.
These vehicles may be modified civilian equipment （such as the armoured bulldozers that many nations field） or purpose-built military vehicles （such as the AVRE）.
The first appearance of such vehicles coincided with the appearance of the first tanks, these vehicles were modified Mark V tanks for bridging and mine clearance.
Modern military engineering vehicles are expected to fulfill numerous roles, as such they undertake numerous forms, examples of roles include; bulldozers, cranes,
graders, excavators, dump trucks, breaching vehicles, bridging vehicles, military ferries, amphibious crossing vehicles, and Combat engineer section carriers.
A Heavy RE tank was developed shortly after World War I by Major Giffard LeQuesne Martel RE. This vehicle was a modified Mark V tank.
Two support functions for these Engineer Tanks were developed: bridging and mine clearance.
The bridging component involved an assault bridge, designed by Major Charles Inglis RE, called the Canal Lock Bridge, which had sufficient length to span a canal lock.
Major Martel mated the bridge with the tank and used hydraulic power generated by the tank's engine to maneuver the bridge into place.
For mine clearance the tanks were equipped with 2 ton rollers.
Between the wars various experimental bridging tanks were used to test a series of methods for bridging obstacles and developed by the Experimental Br...