Summernats 22 has come and gone and our fair city of Canberra has returned to normal. One of the star attractions, I’m told, was Armygeddon, and here it is in action on the burnout pad.
Armygeddon is a heavily modified six-wheel drive Land Rover powered by a 7-litre supercharged Chevy V8. The Army chaps claim it is good for 700bhp. That’s a lot of ponies, so they’re using 3 modified Nissan Patrol axles, with 10.5 inch diffs to get the power to the ground. Armygeddon was built by a combination of army and civilian trades and the clever chaps have wired up those three diffs so the car can do burnouts using any combination of the six wheels. That’s kind of cool. Well, if you’re into that sort of stuff.
When on show the six-wheeler has 144 inches of chrome wheels (that’s 6 x 24″) running 1890mm tyres (6 x 315mm), although when burning rubber the 24s are replaced by more modest 15 inch steelies.
Speaking to Army—The Soldiers’ Newspaper CA Lt-Gen Peter Leahy said Armygeddon was an amazing piece of machinery, “Anyone can do a normal burnout, but this vehicle can do what others can only dream about. Driving any wheel, or wheels, while holding the others still.
“I am very proud to say it is one of the Army’s newest and coolest recruiting tools,” he said.
Click below for another clip with more detail on Armygeddon.
Source: RiotACT and The Army newspaper