Nearly four years after the Army settled on Oshkosh to produce a next-generation replacement for the troubled Humvee, a few lucky soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry ...
We put a Corvette engine in our Humvee and now we need to upgrade the exhaust, cooling and seats to go with it.
Despite this praise, the changes made to the Humvee through successive upgrades have been found to pose risks to soldiers. The Humvee is the American military's basic off-road vehicle. Although ...
Today, the Humvee might be as associated with the dead ... capable vehicle by using off-the-shelf parts. The angular body panels gave the truck a look almost like a modern, stealth vehicle.
After the Vietnam war, the Pentagon needed to replace its aging fleet of Jeeps and commissioned a $1 billion contract with American Motors General (via MotorTrend). The military wanted a vehicle ...
As result, the JLTV “will require more maintenance that the [Humvee] based on the maintenance ratio demonstrated in the MOT&E,” per the Pentagon evaluation — a troubling revelation given ...
GM Defense has independently developed its Next Generation Tactical Vehicle as an option to replace the Humvee — High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) — fielded in the 1980’s.