Posted on 09/12/2022 6:09:41 PM PDT by dynachrome
Which is the best military trucks in the world? Which is the greatest military truck and why? There are hundreds and thousands of various truck models, that are being used for military service. Some of them are commercial designs, just repainted in military colors. The others are purpose-built tactical vehicles, that where specially designed for military use. Main roles of military trucks are to carry soldiers and supplies.
Key factor for this Top 10 analysis is how long a basic design without significant changes is being produced, as well as combination of payload capacity, cross-country mobility, reliability production numbers, and some other factors.
This Top 10 list includes only operational trucks. It do not includes vehicles that are being developed or received no production orders.
Currently Top 10 military trucks in the world are these:
(Excerpt) Read more at military-today.com ...
Get that woman out of the way of that awesome looking truck.
“ Get that woman out of the way of that awesome looking truck!”
What truck?
I hope the deuce and a half isn’t on the list.
I can say one thing, they always haul the new trucks to the dump in deuce and a halves.
And the Gamma Goat was the dumbest thing they ever came up with. ROTFL.
The HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck made the list. I’m happy. I drove it all over IRAQ in 1991. It was a great ride.
“Unimog was designed in 1946”
Snickering. Maybe the plans were dug out of the rubble in 1946. According to Wikipedia, the prototype was developed in 1945. A significant year in German history. And resistance to the occupation continued until at least 1947.
I agree. I entered the military in 1975 and the deuce and a half was king. Nothing was power or automated (no power brakes no power steering, etc... ), but it just did it's job.
In the old engines, there was a switch for different fuels. I met an old motor maintenance chief that said in Viet Nam, they sometimes had to run the deuce and half on contaminated heating oil and it still started up and got the job done.
We still used the deuce and half in Iraq as late as 2005.
While in Iraq in 2005, we had a deuce and a half get in the middle of an ambush. It was completely shot up to include RPG damage. It made it back to base on its own power. It was leaking every fluid (gear oil, battery acid, lube oil, diesel, etc...) and half the tires were flat. While it was sad to see it die, the maintenance section stripped it of every useable part before sending it to the scrap heap.
M35A2....why? because I got one and there isnt a stick of firewood I cant drag out of the woods up here in N Idaho..........good thing I moved from San Andreas Ca area before making that statement with Big Trees (Arnold Ca) a few miles away.
M35A2....why? because I got one and there isnt a stick of firewood I cant drag out of the woods up here in N Idaho..........good thing I moved from San Andreas Ca area before making that statement with Big Trees (Arnold Ca) a few miles away.
sorry for the double post....Im getting senile, forgetful, and something else I forgot about.
Nice rack.
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