The Saurer 10DM is the last heavy truck model, which was manufactured by the Adolph

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AG. The name 10DM stands for 10 t payload. The three-axle vehicle has a power output of 320 hp. The driving Formula 6x6 is driven 6 of 6 existing wheels. Its lighter "brother", the Saurer 6DM, has accordingly 2 axes (4-Wheel) and a 6 tonne payload and 280 hp. The vehicles are equipped with Saurer six-cylinder engines and

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are connected via a

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. Some of the 6DM and 10DM are equipped with a winch, the 6DM and 10DM with a

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have a 60l less fuel capacity. The models 6DM and 10DM were the first military vehicles of the

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, which went into operation with

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structure. The most widespread are the 6DM and 10DM truck as flatbed with tarp for troops and supplies, but they also exist as fire engines for military airfields. The firefighting version practice the firefighting with the special F/A-18C Maquette device,Klaus Fischer: ''Feuerwehrfahrzeuge in der Schweiz''. Feuerwehr-Archiv. Verlag Technik Berlin 2000, as a crane truck, and as container transporter for the operating components for

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(tactical aircraft radar) also TAFLIR radar antennae are mounted on 10DM trucks. As these trucks have reached the end of their useful life and spare parts are getting scarce, they are being phased out and are replaced by trucks from

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since 2013. File:Saurer Gottwald - Schweizer Armee - Steel Parade 2006.jpg, Saurer 10DM Cran File:Saurer0541.jpg, Saurer 10DM Gottwald Cran File:Swiss army accident simulation.jpg, accident simulation File:Swiss army Saurer - Flickr - sludgegulper.jpg, Saurer 10DM File:Werkstatt und Rep-Fz mit Anh - Schweizer Armee - Steel Parade 2006.jpg, Saurer 10DM big roof File:TAFLIR auf LKW nah.JPG, Saurer 10DM TAFLIR

References

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