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An improved ribbon bridge can support 70 tons or more—enough to carry an M1 Abrams tank—and is solid enough that you’ve got to drive across in a semitruck to feel it move in the water.
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The fielded Ribbon Bridge has a few deficiencies and an updated Qualitative Materiel Requirement (QMR), dated March 1985, was Issued by the US Army Engineer School (USAES) for an Improved Ribbon Bridge (1RB).
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