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Developed by Oshkosh Defense, the JLTV offers a new generation of tactical mobility armored vehicles paired with improved ...
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 newspaper’s six-month investigation also found that serious accidents involving the M1114 factory-armored Humvee — the current workhorse of the Humvee fleet in Iraq which, at 9,800 pounds, weighs ...
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.
A 90th Missile Security Force Squadron Humvee patrols in the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., ... the 20th Air Force commander directed a modification to the way Up-Armored (UA) Humvees ...
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 ...
Members of the Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 Immediate Response Team (MWSS-371, IRT) based in Yuma, Ariz., and deployed to Iraq, wrote in to Drive to tell everyone about their ...
USFK commander Gen. B.B. Bell told a congressional committee on March 11 that he was concerned about his command’s lack of up-armored vehicles and had asked the U.S. Army to expedite their ...
We never really thought of the HMMWV (aka the Humvee) as a military vehicle with a “flat bottom, low weight, low ground clearance and aluminum body,” but to American soldiers using the heavily ...
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 ...
I was on leave from Baghdad on Nov. 30, 2006, when an Explosively Formed Projectile destroyed my up-armored Humvee and killed my gunner. Staff Sgt. John L. Hartman Jr. volunteered for his third ...