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Hace 4 días · The M8 Armored Gun System (AGS), sometimes known as the Buford, is an American light tank that was intended to replace the M551 Sheridan and TOW missile-armed Humvees in the 82nd Airborne Division and 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (2nd ACR) of the U.S. Army respectively.
Hace 5 días · The M249 SAW, M240, MK 19, and M2 machine guns can be mounted on vehicles. BGM-71 TOW mounted on Humvee and JLTV variants, as well as M2 and M3 Bradley. The M134 Minigun, fires 7.62mm ammunition at 3,000 to 4,000 rpm. The M3P Machine Gun, an M2 variant with a higher rate of fire mounted on the Avenger Humvee.
Hace 5 días · The Humvee‘s vulnerability issues, exposed by frequent ambushes and IED attacks during the Iraq War, prompted the Pentagon to seek a better-armored replacement in the mid-2000s. In August 2015, Oshkosh Defense‘s L-ATV prototype (now called the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle or JLTV) was selected to succeed the Humvee as the U.S ...
Hace 2 días · It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States —supported by UNOSOM II —against the forces of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) and armed irregulars of south Mogadishu. The battle was part of the two-year-old Somali Civil War.
Hace 3 días · Sgt. Tracy Toliver, 33, is gazing through the infrared sights of his Stryker armored vehicle at something creeping along the desert nearly a mile away in the dead of ... 2005, they set out early in a patrol of armored Humvees to make their rounds. First stop is a market in downtown Qayyarah, where meat vendors slaughter cows on the ...
Hace 6 días · Memorial Day – Always remember the sacrifices. Army First Lieutenant Larissa (Seward) Emory sits in a gunner’s turret in an up armored Humvee in 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. As we celebrate Memorial Day, we remember the soldiers – past, present, and future – who placed themselves in harm’s way, so we can live in peace.
Hace 4 días · Larissa’s unit traveled in highly fortified up-armored Humvees built to sustain IED explosions. “IED’s were bad enough and then they got smart and came up with the more advanced Explosively ...
