1. A multi-axle armored vehicle comprising: a unitized hull constructed from armor plate and exhibiting ballistically-resistant, oblique surfaces over substantially the entirety thereof, said hull comprising a box-like personnel-carrying body portion and an integral, forwardly, inwardly tapering wedge-shape nose portion;

front axle means in the area of the nose portion and first and second parallel rear axle means in the area of the body portion;

suspension means mounting said front axle means to said hull;

each of said first and second parallel rear axle means having a power transfer differential, a drive shaft, and a pair of drive axles, housing means for said differentials, said drive shafts and said drive axles including first and second pairs of axle sleeves, said first and second pairs of axle sleeves each having a pair of outboard ends, suspension means including a pair of trailing swing arms on each side of the hull, each of said trailing swing arms connected at one end to one of the outboard ends of one of said axle sleeves, means for pivotally connecting the opposite end of each of said trailing swing arms to said hull for swinging movement in a vertical plane, spring means for suspending the hull on each of said trailing swing arms, vehicle wheels connected to each of said trailing swing arms for concurrent vertical planar movement whereby wheel suspension movements are maintained in a limited transverse space outboard of the vehicle hull;

said spring means including a first pair of telescoping shock absorbers and a coil spring surrounding each of said shock absorbers having its opposite ends supported by opposite ends of said shock absorbers, said opposite ends of said shock absorbers being connected at axially offset and vertically spaced points on said hull and said trailing arm whereby said shock absorbers and coil springs extend obliquely from said wheel assemblies toward said front end to reduce the vertical height of the wheel well occupied by said spring means;

an engine selectively drivingly connected to said drive shafts for powering said vehicle, said engine being disposed substantially within the nose of said hull and laterally from a longitudinal center line of said hull; and,

a driver's station spaced laterally from said engine and within the nose of said hull,

said hull is provided with a plurality of wheel wells therein above said vehicle wheels having a transverse width slightly wider than the treat width of each vehicle wheel, and

(1) each of said trailing swing arms being transversely spaced and having the opposite ends thereof pivotally connected to said hull at a location forward of the hull position of the axle sleeve connected thereto,

(2) a second pair of telescoping shock absorbers each having one end thereof pivotally connected to the front axle means, the opposite end thereof being pivotally connected to said hull at a location substantially vertically aligned above said one end thereof such that the longitudinal axis of each of said second pair of shock absorbers extends substantially vertically,

(3) each of said first pair of telescoping shock absorbers each having one end thereof pivotally connected to the axle sleeves associated with said rear set of vehicle wheel means, the opposite end of each of said last named shock absorbers being pivotally connected to said hull at a location above the associated axle sleeves and forward of the hull position of the axle sleeve connected thereto.

(4) and a stabilizer member associated with each of said first pair of shock absorbers having opposite end thereof pivotally connected to said hull at a location below said last mentioned pivotally connected hull location whereby said stabilizer member has its longitudinal axis generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of said shock absorber to efficiently utilize wheel well space occupied by the spring means at the rear set of vehicle wheel means.

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