The
BBC has an
article by
Matthew Phenix about what replaces the
Hummer:
It was a long and bumpy road for the Oshkosh Corporation and its L-ATV vehicle (photo), but this week, the Wisconsin-based defense contractor won a grueling three-year competition. The prize? A seven-billion-dollar contract to build the military's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the successor to the long-serving High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, better known as the Humvee.
This initial contract calls for delivery of some seventeen thousand vehicles between 2018 and 2022, but it could ultimately be worth some thirty billion dollars to the company, as the JLTV gradually replaces the military's aging fleet of nearly three hundred thousand Humvees.
It's no small sum, but the Oshkosh JLTV is a thoroughly modern war machine, one that outperforms the Humvee in every way. Design requirements called for a new vehicle that was tougher, more capable, more versatile, easier to transport, easier to fix and above all, more protective of the soldiers and Marines who will operate it.
All it needs now is a catchy name. On that front, Hummer will be hard to beat.
Rico says that it's, in the parlance of the young, a 'badass-looking motherfucker'... (And that's a good nickname, but it won't catch on.)
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