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If that was on an FMTV, you should take the tires off and find out what is wrong, instead of acting like such a snowflake that someone disagreed with you. I don't have any problem with you personally, but your story can not physically happen with these beadlocked rims installed and functioning...

I don't think that's a secret, especially since those you've seen fail did so because they were poorly maintained and malfunctioning. Beadlocks are a design intended specifically keep the tire from coming off the rim, in situations that would do it to non-beadlocked tires. When functioning...

If you say yourself that you don't know what's in the tire, how can you be so sure that you've personally seen a tire come off the beadlock? Trick question... you can't. If that pushes your buttons, that's on you.

To elaborate on why Wheelspinner is correct, with a beadlock rim the beads of the tire are literally clamped to the rim on both sides. Unless you rip the bead off the tire, it physically can not come off, even at 0PSI. In this picture, which is actually a HMMWV tire I think, but similar to FMTV...

Doesn't matter, you're still getting a huge difference, like 35%. Even if your torque wrench can get the torque on the head within 4%, getting the torque on the head that close only results in a +/-35% tension ("preload") on the bolt! Using a torque wrench is better than nothing... it's "some"...

FMTV tires have beadlocks (or runflats, which also act as beadlocks).

The inaccuracy of even high-quality torque wrenches is severe, and worse when combined with the inaccuracy of the nut torque's relationship with properly preloading the bolt. We're talking +/- 35% on unlubricated bolts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolted_joint ). Torque wrench, "mark torque...