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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 ...
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 ...
Missile defenses, up-armored Humvees, body armor – sometimes defense can get costly and complicated. Then there’s the recollection of Indiana Army National Guard Major Bradley Compton, who ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...