ARMY retires Humvee

[rds13601]

After lobbying to try to update the Humvee to make it withstand IEDS the army decided instead to go with a new vehicle. The article is from Military.com and here is the link: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2012/01/24/r...laces-bets-on-jltv/?comp=1198882887570&rank=5 Sorry meant cancel!!

 

[K-Tiger]

Yes! Been tired of seeing the Humvee.


There's only so much you can do to a light utility vehicle to make it mine/IED resistant.

 

[Fled74]

Great, another vehicle on which to spend my hard-earned.

 

[robbo2101]

Shame I really like the humvee

 

[Monkeywrench]

That's a bummer. I like the Humvee, however if they can't make it resistant to IED's then its the right call.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Shame I really like the humvee

yeah, so do i...very utilitarian looking

 

[Midget]

Based on the article, I'm getting vibes of the Bradley Fighting vehicle fiasco. It sounds like they're making budget cuts while adding requirements to the new vehicle. Doesn't bode well….

 

[ThunderDan19]

Hey, look on the bright side. Maybe there'll be a lot of surplus Humvees available to buy for some good offroading fun, now with all that cheap oil flowing in from Canada... oh wait...

 

[K-Tiger]

Based on the article, I'm getting vibes of the Bradley Fighting vehicle fiasco. It sounds like they're making budget cuts while adding requirements to the new vehicle. Doesn't bode well….

They can all hang out with the Cheyenne and Comanche on Vaporware Island.

 

[Midget]

They can all hang out with the Cheyenne and Comanche on Vaporware Island.

Yup yup.

 

[ThunderDan19]

Nah, Cheyenne was beaten out by the Apache. Comanche was shafted by the Kiowa upgrade program and Donnie Rumsfeld's budgeting failures.

 

[The Ewokhunter]

Based on the article, I'm getting vibes of the Bradley Fighting vehicle fiasco. It sounds like they're making budget cuts while adding requirements to the new vehicle. Doesn't bode well….

I was gonna post the same thing. Sounds politically motivated.

 

[The Ewokhunter]

but I wonder if it has anything to do with this

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/02/news/companies/gm_hummer/

Maybe China wants the military division as well and the Pentagon feels they could offload it for some money and then make a new truck.

 

[YT1]

Wow I feel really old! My first drill in ARNG was driving in the old Jeeps to swap them out for "new" HMMVs.

 

[NSA]

$200k to retrofit the HMMWV's! Each! Yikes.

 

[The Ewokhunter]

$200k to retrofit the HMMWV's! Each! Yikes.

That's in Pentagon dollars though. Auto Zone has those kits for $99.95 plus a free tire gauge.

 

[Wild weasel]

As much as I like the hummwv, that new truck looks frickin awesome! This will be interesting...

$200k to retrofit the HMMWV's! Each! Yikes.

180K of that most likely went into stealth blackhawks

 

[YT1]

That's in Pentagon dollars though. Auto Zone has those kits for $99.95 plus a free tire gauge.

LMFAO!

180K of that most likely went into stealth blackhawks

Bingo!

 

[K-Tiger]

Nah, Cheyenne was beaten out by the Apache. Comanche was shafted by the Kiowa upgrade program and Donnie Rumsfeld's budgeting failures.

Horseshit, the Comanche was shafted by typical Army adding to the operational requirments. If they'd left well enough alone they'd have the fucking RAH-66 right now.