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RE: Up Armored FMTV I know the tractor in the last picture is restricted from going more than five miles and hour without a trailer attached because they have flipped up on the nose with a even a moderate braking. We build several baskets of plate steel with a king pin in the center that they...

Up Armored FMTV Wow this is becomig a great education thread. Bob what would explain the damage to the frame on the FMTV I saw in Afgahistan if it is so robust? I am just curious because when the armor cab was added they also added huge coil springs to augment the leafs. Here are some...

RE: Some more pictures of the FMTV Wow I like your truck! it should have been fielded out to Soldiers and let them make a significant call in what we got. I do like the fact that the engine is there where you put it as if you look at the FMTV the engine and drive componets are not easily...

RE: Some more pictures of the FMTV Thanks Bob: I wondered if that is a sleeper cab behind the crew space and what it shares with our FMTV fleet. Also how do you get one beside the obvious big wallet?

Some more pictures of the FMTV Here are a few pictures showing some issues with the FMTV and it being able to protect the Soldiers. I still am proud of all the efforts our team put together to get them armored up to protect Soldiers and we will live with this truck for at least the rest of my...

Bob: First off thank-you for your service and for supporting Soldiers. I did not mean to down talk the truck and we are firmly committed to them as our primary medium truck now. Go back to 1982 I was a transportation 2nd lieutenant in a truck company who loudly complained that our medium...

RE: Re: RE: Brand new FMTV spotted What a waste we had to tear off hundreds of the pretty Euro cabs to install armored ones on these and then they were close to being over the limit of the front axle. The MTV wrecker is a shadow of a HEMTT wrecker ask any Soldier who has used both. The 900...