What say you HUMVEE Vets?
They should go back to the old JEEPs.
$400,000 per unit
Is this the same company that makes “Oshkosh Bagosh” children’s clothing?
Army Ping.
ISIS will just LOVE these!!!
“Jolt V”
Just don’t hand them over to the Iraqi Army.
I have a hunch:
Hose it down with AK-47 rounds and see if it still runs and gets the boys out of the area.
If it does, great.
If it doesn’t, it sucks.
I was in during the transition.
The HMMWV did perform well, but they cost seven times as much as a Jeep when they were initially deployed. I thought that their size was a problem in mountainous terrain (Four strong guys could pick up a jeep and turn it around) but that they cornered a lot better than the Jeeps.
I would like to see these new vehicles take over. They look like their design is more in line with armorial the flooring against mines.
The ISIS seem to like them They are driving the earlier models all over the desert. Version 2.0 will be a welcomed upgrade I am sure.
It seems as though isis has most of them.
Looks like an expensive RPG magnet to me.
Humvees were GREAT in the woods. small trees were no problem. However, most of the time, I had to drive them on the road (National Guard weekend duty), and they were loud and uncomfortable.
Looks like it might be narrow enough to be carried aboard a CH-47 *Chinook* helicopter. Which the Hummvee wasn't.
Those big tires oughta burn real good. Enemy tank and guided missile gunners are going to love these things.
So, a total of 68,000 maximum possible troops will have these. For $6.7 billion I think the taxpayers could do much better.
Ping
The Army doesn’t need these. They have indestructable female Rangerettes now capable of carrying LT pajama boy’s rucksack.
The HMMWV was an improvement over the Jeep, but sucked as a garrison vehicle. I used a CUCV pickup truck around post (Bragg), and went to DS/DS with it, and got a HMMWV on returning. I still miss that ol’ “cut-vee” !
This monster will be definitely too much for garrison duty.
I guess I’m a little surprised. We already have the MRAP to move troops around - so I don’t see a HMMWV, or this new vehicle, being used in an assault. The vehicle is supposed to shuttle people around in rear areas. So I see this new vehicle as an admission that our fighting forces cannot secure their own rear areas. Part of our doctrine is to attack the enemy ‘in depth’ to leave the enemy no safe haven, not even rear areas...but it looks like the enemy has been able to turn the tables on us on the cheap, with IEDs. And our response is $400k people movers.