Gama Goat is a six-wheel off-road semi-amphibious vehicle. It was originally designed for the US military involved in the Vietnam War. The Goat uses an articulated chassis and therefore it seems from a certain distance that this four-wheel-drive car pulls a two-wheeled trailer behind it. However, it is a six-wheel one-piece steering wheel with four wheels, in which the front and rear wheels rotate in opposite directions. The car is famous for its off-road passability, it can move through extremely difficult marshland.
The car's nickname consists of two words. Gama, on behalf of the inventor of the articulation joint, Roger Gamount and Goat (goat) because of its excellent off-road terrain as a mountain goat. Tactical 1,25-ton truck 6 × 6 received the military designation M561. There was also a sanitary version of the machine under the designation M792. Goat is highly valued among collectors of war machines, as it is very unusual and is currently in short supply. This car was subsequently replaced by the CUCV (commercial auxiliary truck) and the HMMWV (highly mobile multipurpose wheeled vehicle).
Based on materials from the site www.thebrigade.thechive.com
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