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 EnTyme wrote:
Isn't one of the purposes of tracks on a tank to help distribute the weight so it doesn't sink into the mud/loose dirt in the first place? The tank in the above image looks to be driving on mud, yet it isn't sinking below the tracks.

Yes. It lowers the psi of the vehicle by increasing the surface area of the ground.

Peregrine is absolutely correct, but mud is a bad example. The russ will have more problems with uneven terrain than it will with mud. It would either grind those idiotic side skirts right off or get stuck as soon as it left an absolutely flat road.