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The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV; colloquial: Humvee) is a family of light, four-wheel drive military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General. [16]
The M1151 Enhanced Armament Carrier [3] is an improved version of the standard Humvee (HMMWV) designed to replace the M1025A2 used by the United States Armed Forces as a response to United States Central Command requirements.
The Humvee replacement process was an effort by the U.S. military to replace the current AM General Humvee multi-purpose motor vehicle. The Humvee had evolved several times since its introduction in 1985, [5] [6] and is now used in tactical roles for which it was not originally intended. [7]
The civilian version of the Humvee, marketed as the Hummer, went on sale in 1992. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] The interior was largely influenced by semi-trucks . Under a 1999 deal, General Motors bought marketing rights to the Hummer name, began marketing Hummer-branded vehicles designed by GM, and rebadged the original version built by AM General as the ...
The Humvee has been the U.S. military's main light vehicle platform since the 1980s. Military light utility vehicle, or simply light utility vehicle (LUV), is a term used for the lightest weight class military vehicle category. [1]
A sign sits at the entrance to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. A Marine died after being crushed by a Humvee during routine training operations.
Hummer (stylized in all caps) is an American brand of pickups and marketed in 1992 when AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 Humvee. [1] Although discontinued in 2010, Hummer returned as a model under GMC in 2020.
The Humvee's replacement, a completely new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) design, has been in production by Oshkosh Corporation since 2016. [27] AM General was unsuccessful in its bid for this $30-billion 25-year contract, and it is now focused on military Humvee support (they still outnumber JLTVs by three to one) and development of a new ...