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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 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 ...
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 ...
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]
An Afghan national army Humvee drives past a US army Black Hawk helicopter in Kandahar (AFP via Getty) “Soon they will just sell these Nato vehicles like scrap and of course, the market will be ...
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 Dongfeng EQ2050 is a Chinese-made armored vehicle based on the Humvee, manufactured for government use by the Dongfeng Motor Group. It is known to be sold by the company for 700,000 Yuan ($93,000). [5] The vehicle was created after People's Liberation Army (PLA) officials saw the Humvee deployed in the Gulf War. While it is used in the PLA ...