Kicking The Tires On The Next Humvees

New York Times ^ | January 22, 2005 | By Danny Hakim

[esoxmagnum]

Curious though, why we see so many Humvee's in 2nd line positions and garrison duty.

I thought the Humvee was the replacement for the jeep.

Also, I would have thought going into this war that the Bradley Fighting Vehicle would have been the choice for urban warfare.

Not making a stink, just curious why this is not so. I know there are alot of military minds on FR that could probably enlighten me some.

I'm guessing its due to how the dems slashed military budgets the 8 years prior.

Any input from you military guys?

[Wiz]

What are you going to use BFG 9000s for? Could this ugly weapon be reality? If you could get plasma shot into the field and bend it by gravity force into the direction of enemy, maybe.

[Military family member]

To destroy eerything in my path! :-)

[mark502inf]

After the Iraqi military was defeated in the initial attack, the idea was that our occupation troops would patrol in a much less dangerous environment. Accordingly, follow-on units came with 1/3 of their armor and used thin-skined wheeled vehicles(mostly HMMWVs) for the rest of their units. The situation has changed and we've worked to up-armor the wheels already over there and now, the next two rotational units--3d Inf Div and 3d Armored Cav Regt--are coming with 100% of their armored vehicles; mostly tanks & Bradleys, but some M113s as well.

[Last Dakotan]

Rhode Island now feels inferior and demands tax dollars for self esteem workshops.

Hehehe