Scolopax Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 Oshkosh Corps wins U.S. Army award for Humvee Replacement Personally not a fan of it's appearance (or any of the other JLTVs), but oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 Yeah it's surely the ugliest of the JLTV competitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 anyone got a link to a pic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 NSFW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 What's wrong with this picture.... " The two military services plan to buy a total of 55,000 of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, to start replacing the current combined fleet of about 140,000 Humvees." How does 55K replace 140K? plan to buy a total of 55K, to -begin- replacing... Bad writing or boneheaded logistics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 The part where they can think about them in the first place without spontaneously projectile vomiting from it's sheer ugliness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 It looks like they just threw parts into a pile and put wheels on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 It looks like they just threw parts into a pile and put wheels on it. If you replaced "Wheels" with "Tracks", you just described the design process behind the WT E-100! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 I realize that there's a reason behind the general design, but I just find most MRAPs to be brutish and unsightly things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 "Future MRAP discovered to be immune to even the advanced, most powerful proposed future 152mm Russian tank munitions after crewman are discovered to be able to projectile vomit with enough sheer erosive and corrosive force to disintegrate a round mid flight, requires only looking in the mirrors of the vehicle to remind them exactly what they're riding in." It's a bold strategy when you think of it, make a vehicle so goddamned hideous enemy fire doesn't even want to hit it, let alone can hit it. Mohamed A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 OshKosh B'Gosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 That is magnificently ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 I guess the goal is to elicit pity from any attackers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Wait a second. Will they actually be able to build these now that they've won the contract? Or are we gonna see Joes tooling around in Chevy pickups like when the Humvee was introduced? Which would be kind of awesome since I always wanted one of those surplus Army trucks as a kid for inexplicable reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Wait a second. Will they actually be able to build these now that they've won the contract? Or are we gonna see Joes tooling around in Chevy pickups like when the Humvee was introduced? Which would be kind of awesome since I always wanted one of those surplus Army trucks as a kid for inexplicable reasons. You're thinking of a CUCV. And for the most part they were decent. They did have issues with the electrical system, and being an aspirated Diesel had all the sparkling onroad performance of a lithium addled geriatric. But for a no-bullshit truck, they are hard to beat and made more sense as a utility vehicle than the HMMWV. Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 CUCVs were still tooling around when I got out in 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 KamAZ looks better than that car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 KamAZ looks better than that car. That's not exactly a hard feat to achieve. I mean for gods sake, LOOK AT IT! It could be a modern art masterpiece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 GAZ Tigr is up there for me too as a good-looking vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 CUCVs were still tooling around when I got out in 2000. There were a few series of CUCV after the common 6.2L versions. Three IIRC, all some flavor of GM, four if you count the Dodge M880 series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 There were a few series of CUCV after the common 6.2L versions. Three IIRC, all some flavor of GM, four if you count the Dodge M880 series. But to ask the important questions, were they less ugly then the Oshkosh JLTV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 The Oshkosh is so bloody ugly, even its mother couldn't love it ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Think of any early 1980s Chevy truck. Now rattle can it green, brown and black. Put on orange emergency lights or have it carry something vaguely Army surplus. Or just find a Prepper with like six of em parked at their compound in various stages of disrepair. ... Yep. Still better than the Oshkosh offering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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