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Vehicle registration plates of the United States Army in Germany; Tank classification; List of "M" series military vehicles; List of currently active United States military land vehicles; List of crew served weapons of the US Armed Forces; List of vehicles of the United States Marine Corps; List of weapons of the U.S. Marine Corps; G-numbers
US Military Wheeled Vehicles (3 ed.). Victory WWII. ISBN 0-970056-71-0. Doyle, David (2003). Standard catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles. Krause. ISBN 0-87349-508-X. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018; Standard Military Vehicle Data Sheets. Ordnance Tank Automotive Cmd. 1959. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014
The Army never formalized a competitive bid process, but in the interim, opted to purchase a limited number of GMVs through SOCOM's Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1. In its 2018 budget request, the Army split the GMV into two phases. The second phase, called the Infantry Squad Vehicle program, was initiated to acquire 1700 additional vehicles. [12]
The Pentagon bought 25,000 MRAP vehicles since 2007 in 25 variants through rapid acquisition with no long-term plans for the platforms. The Army plans to divest 7,456 vehicles and retain 8,585. Of the total number of vehicles the Army is to keep, 5,036 are to be stored, 1,073 are used for training, and the remainder are spread across the active ...
Its design is mostly based on lessons learned during Operation Desert Storm in Iraq, [1] after an initial program, post 1985, for specialized HMMWVs for desert strike operations: the Desert Mobility Vehicle (DMV), or "Dumvee". [3] GMV crews like to call them "gun trucks". The GMV program is superseded by the GMV 1.1, based on the General ...
In June 2018, the Army established the Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) program to replace the M2 Bradley. In October 2018, the program was re-designated as the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV). The NGCV program was expanded as a portfolio of next-generation vehicles including tanks and the Bradley-based Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle.
The Illustrated Guide to Military Vehicles. Hermes House. ISBN 978-1-78214-192-1. Handbook of Ordnance Data (PDF). US War Dept. 1919. pp. 362– 379; Military Vehicles Forecast: United States Tactical Vehicles. Forecast International. 2003; Standard Military Vehicle Data Sheets. Ordnance Tank Automotive Cmd. 1959.