Oshkosh has been building extreme heavy duty trucks since the beginning of automotive history (huge snowblower trucks are what I’m most familiar with).
So I’m inclined to believe this could be a good truck.
But, if someone offered me a free M151 or this new truck, I’d take the M151 in a heartbeat.
>>See sight<<
Hear sound.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
I am off to view the SITE.
;)
Bet the fuel mileage sucks.
Pretty cool looking machine, made in Wisconsin! Awesome!!
I don’t see any design feature that would divert an IED blast away from the occupants. Even a mean-looking vehicle is worthless with dead occupants.
Kind of ugly, and comes from the factory with bullet holes in the doors.
Cost nearly twice as much as the Humvee (uparmored)
If they want a freaking armored car, why don’t they just build an armored car? The Cadillac V-150 Commando might be a good place to start development.
The quarter ton jeep wasn’t a bad vehicle. It was simple and easy to work on. It was narrow and could get between trees.
The hummer had good power and had an actual heater in it. You could also sleep in it.
Kinda reminiscent of the WW II German S-37.
Nice contract!
I worked on this program for BAE Systems from 2010 to 2012.
This truck is a very good thing for soldiers and Marines. It has a V-hull to deflect IED blast, an adjustable suspension that raises or lowers ground clearance, and it can be done from the crew compartment. The armor is the best out there. It’s lighter than an MRAP but has the same protection. This is long overdue.
In no way am I against more effective military transport. I would have never argued about replacing horses with vehicles or Jeeps with HMMWVs. So here we are faced with an expensive change, partly born out of the age of current vehicles and also out of safety of our soldiers and Marines. I contend that the root of the safety problem does not lie in vehicles. It has to do with the political will to utterly destroy our enemies. I am all for armor and protecting our soldiers lives when they are killing the enemy. I just think that some jeeps should be made for military leadership so they may travel through captured territory. That would quickly expose whether the job of killing the enemy was complete.
The article didn’t say how many cup holders it had, or what type of sound system is included. Optional extras, I guess.
I’ll take two, please.
They could call it, I dunno, maybe Jeep?
It all boils down to what the Army needs in its particular situation. In WWII it wanted a *lot* of cheap and cheerful, that could cross bad terrain and was easy to fix and maintain with minimal education. A high casualty assumption, the Jeep had to be expendable.
By the time the Humvee came around, what they wanted was a universal light vehicle that could be configured in a dozen or more different ways based on need. The Jeep had a problem of having a dangerously high center of gravity, so it needed to be difficult to flip. And they wanted tires far more difficult to disable, so they filled them with goop instead of air.
However, this meant they were a LOT more expensive, far more difficult to maintain and repair, and had a lot more eccentricities.
You might want to see what’s up!