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AM General designed the BRV-O JLTV to provide better protection, performance, payload, transportability, reliability and affordability than the current Humvee. [ 4 ] In August 2012, the Army and Marine Corps selected the BRV-O as one of three designs for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the program. [ 5 ]
Street-legal, road-legal, or road-going, refers to a vehicle such as a car, motorcycle, or light truck that is equipped and licensed for use on public roads, being therefore roadworthy. This will require specific configurations of lighting, signal lights, and safety equipment.
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 ...
In a rare show of force, a column of Humvees was used to guard the procession at the funeral of the senior Taliban minister Khalil Haqqani, who was killed in a suicide bombing attack last week.
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program was a U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and Special Operations Command competition to select a vehicle to partially replace the Humvee fleet [1] with a family of more survivable vehicles having a greater payload. Early studies for the JLTV program were approved in 2006.
It is built on an Expanded Capacity Vehicle chassis, which allows for more passengers or additional supplies (up to 2,300 lbs). Its two- or four-seat variant is the M1152 Enhanced Troop/Cargo/Shelter Carrier, designed to replace the M1097A2 Heavy HMMWV and M1113 Expanded Capacity Vehicle.
At least a dozen of these were built for testing under the High Mobility Combat Vehicle, or HMCV program, initially much more as an enhanced capability successor to the M151 jeep, than as a general-purpose vehicle. [citation needed] Humvee interior. The HMMWV program had its origins in the Combat Support Vehicle (CSV) program. [18]
When forward deployed, United States military police units customarily employ HMMWVs (colloquial: Humvees) or internal security vehicles called the M1117 armored security vehicle. When conducting on-post law enforcement, military police typically employ patrol cars similar to those used by civilian police departments. [1]