The Mule shall be a family of front engined,four and six wheeled,all wheel drive,unprotected vehicles available in a variety of configurations to fulfil a wide variety of tasks.
The four wheeled base vehicle shall have a gross weight of four long tons,a gross payload (including the weight of the driver) of over four thousand pounds and an internal volume identical to that of the Pony,Matilda and Charger vehicles.
The six wheeled base vehicle shall have a gross weight of six long tons,a gross payload of over fifty-two hundred pounds and an internal volume identical to that of the Pony,Matilda and Charger vehicles.
Most Mules shall be neither armed nor armoured but a Three Eighths Inch Machine Gun and ballistic protection up to STANAG 4569 Levels 2,2a and 2b may be added in lieu of payload when required.
The Mule shall generally be used as a more economical substitute for the Pony in benign environments such as driving schools,exercise areas,firing ranges,air fields,depots and bases.
The Mule shall not be routinely issued to any field unit,but shall be used in combat only when size or weight constraints preclude the use of the larger and heavier Pony.
A ten man Light Infantry section equipped with a Mule shall weigh four long tons,half as much as a section equipped with a Pony.
A Super Merlin or Hermes helicopter shall be able to lift one section equipped with a Pony,two sections equipped with Mules or a full platoon equipped with a pair of Oxen.
A Super Merlin or Hermes helicopter shall be able to carry a Pony as an external load but shall be able to carry a Mule as an internal load.
A Centaurus aircraft carrying eight Light Infantry sections rigged for airdrop shall be able to carry about thirty-two long tons of additional fuel if they are equipped with Mules rather than Ponys,allowing a significant increase in airdrop radius.
A Centaurus aircraft shall be able to airdrop sixteen Mules using the Dual Row Airdrop System or air land twenty-four.
The Mule may be regarded as the spiritual successor to the Land Rover Defender based Truck Utility Medium.
The Mule shall have an external space frame chassis,similar to that of the Ox,inside which a variety of inverted trapezoidal bodies may be bolted and on to which accessories may be fitted,it shall be powered by two and three cylinder variants of the engine used by the Ox.
Picture: Unknown photographer,OVIK-CROSSWAY photograph
British companies such as Ricardo,Ineos,OVIK-CROSSWAY,HORIBA-MIRA,Wildcat and Supacat have the ability to design and manufacture the Mule.
(The Field Car renamed Mule,the Light Protected Truck renamed Pony,dead links replaced,new picture attributions and links added and text and pictures edited on the Twenty-second of January,Twenty Twenty-two)
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