M728 combat engineer vehicle

M728 CEV.

The M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle (CEV) is a combat engineering vehicle used by the United States Army for construction and demolition work.

The vehicle is based on an M60A1 tank chassis with a hydraulically operated dozer blade mounted on the front, an A-frame crane hinged on each side of the turret and a winch. The vehicle can also be equipped with a mine clearing rake. The armament consists of an M135 165mm short-barrel demolition gun, 7.62mm coaxial machine gun and a .50 cal machine gun on the commander's cupola.

The M728 was first deployed in 1965, with 291 units produced. It was used in the Gulf War (1991). The vehicle was found to be too slow to keep pace with newer armored vehicles such as the M1 Abrams tank and from 2000 is not used by active duty units. The M728 was also deployed in the siege of Waco, Texas where it perhaps became most closely associated with as it was caught in dramatic fashion on video tape.[1]

External links

• Globalsecurity.org
• AFV database