[91B]

The Hummer is not. It is meant to take folks from point A to point B and not to go into active combat.

Baloney, the scout platoon in the Mech Infantry battalion I was in several years ago used the Hummers for recon and screening. We've known since at least Somalia that the Hummer is insufficient for the tasks it is given in the real world. We shouldn't buy any vehicles without at least some armor plating.

[Echo Talon]

Baloney, the scout platoon in the Mech Infantry battalion I was in several years ago used the Hummers for recon and screening. We've known since at least Somalia that the Hummer is insufficient for the tasks it is given in the real world. We shouldn't buy any vehicles without at least some armor plating.

Exactly, could you imagine doing recon in an Abrams? LOL

[keithtoo]

Would you have taken a Jeep on any of those missions and felt better?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Bean counters and loggy toads hate diversity in vehicle fleets, but we don't have a vehicle that does it all and I doubt such a vehicle exists.

[neverdem]

Baloney, the scout platoon in the Mech Infantry battalion I was in several years ago used the Hummers for recon and screening.

Good point. The antitank platoons of the Army's light infantry battalions also use Hummers for mounting TOW missiles.