Has anybody seen any reports about how this armor will affect the transmission, the suspension and the motor?
My guess is the Humvee has had a drastic reduction in its life as the armor will tear up the Humvee real fast.
What about the new armored Humvees? Are they just throwing the armor on or does this version get upgrades to the motor, transmission, etc. to accommodate the armor?
The shame is that we waste so many billions on African AIDS dollars and domestic waste that we do not have an appropriate urban warfare armored vehicle in the Humvee Class for our troops.
ALL foreign aid and ALL domestic welfare should be stopped until we have sufficiently supplied our troops with appropriate war fighting tools.
I read somewhere that the new ones have upgraded running gear also. The humvees that are being modified in the field are so slow some soldiers are complaining that they are a danger in themselves because of the reduced speed. In WWII we had tank destroyers that were built on the M4 chassis with a 76 MM gun that had almost no armor and not even a turret, their protection was speed. However, in this case the main danger are car bombs and other such devices and the armor is a good thing to have but overblown by the news trying to GET Bush and the boys. I am sure the break down rate of the old humvees with the kit installed is a lot higher.