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This Vehicle is Making Humvees Obsolete
The much-vaunted Humvee, a mainstay of American military forces, has a new competitor on the block, forcing it into eventual ...
Spc. Richard Schmuck of Grafton, N.D., who was one of three North Dakota National Guard soldiers who received a Purple Heart at a ceremony in Bismarck on Friday, said the newer up-armored Humvee ...
The boxy Humvee is powered by a 6.5-liter turbodiesel V8 engine instead of the naturally aspirated diesel usually planted into Humvees. The V8 is rated at 190 horsepower and 380 pound-feet of torque.
Of the 19,389 humvees in Iraq, 5,910 are fully armored, while an additional 9,134 are outfitted with less effective, bolted-on armor. But that leaves 4,345 humvees without any armor.
The exchange sparked a national outcry, and in response the Army ramped up production of heavily armored Humvees. Now a special report from the Dayton Daily News has focused attention on another ...
HUMVEE ARMOR: Humvee manufacturer AM General of South Bend, Ind., has awarded Armor Holdings Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., a $16.2 million contract to provide armor components for two types of the ...
MUSA QALA, Afghanistan -- Spc. Rene Reyes recalls flying through the air, hoping he wouldn't break anything when he landed. Staff Sgt. Dennis Kirk remembers nothing -- the anti-tank mine that ...
Army in Humvee Talks Production of armored vehicles has gone up dramatically in the past year, from about 15 vehicles a month to 450. But amid questions about how well troops are protected in Iraq ...
"The armored glass of an American-made Humvee saved a Ukrainian soldier from shrapnel," the caption reads. It's not clear where or when the video was taken. It was originally shared on the TikTok ...