Military Vehicles [United States]: AM General M998 HMMWV "Humvee" (US Army)

Language of Video Presentation: English.

The M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) is an early Humvee vehicle model created by AM General. Developments started in the 1970s when the United States Army concluded that the militarized civilian trucks in use no longer satisfied their requirements. Among the contenders were Lamborghini which in 1977 developed the Cheetah model in an attempt to meet the Army contract specifications. In 1979, the Army drafted final specifications for a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or HMMWV and by July of that year, AM General (a subsidiary of American Motors Corporation) began preliminary design work. In less than a year later, the first prototype, the M998, was in testing.

In June 1981, the Army awarded AM General a contract for development of several more prototype vehicles to be delivered to the U.S. government for another series of tests, and the company was later awarded the initial production contract for 55,000 HMMWVs to be delivered in 1985. HMMWVs first saw combat in Operation Just Cause, the US invasion of Panama in 1989. Since then, the HMMWV has become the vehicular backbone of U.S. forces around the world. For example, over 10,000 were deployed by coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The basic HMMWV has no armour or protection against nuclear, biological, and chemical threats; it was never designed to offer protection against intense small arms fire, much less machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. However, with the rise of asymmetric warfare and low intensity conflicts as exemplified in Somalia's battle of Mogadishu, the HMMWV has been pressed into service in urban combat roles for which it was not originally intended, thereby forcing the military to recognise a need for a more protected HMMWV. In response, AM General developed the M1113, an armored HMMWV to withstand small arms fire that boasts a fully armoured passenger area protected by hardened steel and bullet-resistant glass with improved engine capabilities, chassis strength, and creature comforts. With the increase in direct attacks and guerrilla warfare in the second invasion of Iraq, AM General has diverted the majority of its manufacturing power to producing these M1114 vehicles.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M998

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[tstaggs25]

Back in the good ol days of the NA 6.2 Diesel and Th400. No electronics bullshit, and I agree. The HMMWV was never designed for a heavy combat role and the only reason they have been so highly modified over the years is because of that stupid overpriced "war" in the middle east. We need to mind our own P's and Q's. We're trying to force country that has lived and breathed warfare for hundreds of years how to live our way, when our country is going to hell. Go back to basics. Go back to the 998A1

[DanieruShidebuteru]

@tstaggs25

Good point. Cheers, bud!

[peepeevagi]

Good ol Humvee. It's easily the best vehicle of it's kind. It was never meant for direct combat like our idiotic military think's it's supposed to do. Nope, It's just the ultimate Jeep :D

[DanieruShidebuteru]

@peepeevagi

It sure did. High Mobility they really were.

[ilove215]

I love Hmmwv's because you don't need a key, just a switch haha

[DanieruShidebuteru]

Na man, my backup didn't go that far back in time. Anyway, I checked my upload details and my copy wasn't the actual video file either, it's in .flv format.

[dereileak]

have the time now to find them?

[Sadetree]

We need to sue DOT For the right to drive them.

[DanieruShidebuteru]

One of the basic reason I put these up is to free some space in my diskdrive so, unfortunately I've deleted many of these videos you see on my profile. Sorry!!! It may still be in my backup but it would take close to infinity to sort through them, I just don't have that amount of time.

[dereileak]

thanks dude, I didnt post most of the vids, just put other people in a playlist, I hope to buy one some day, do you have the files you could send to me of those HMMWV videos? I would love the acutal video file, just upload to sendspace of something if you could, I would love that!!