Offroad Videos: Military

The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) is a military 4WD motor vehicle created by AM General, a heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend-Indiana, USA . The vehicle has largely supplanted the roles formerly served by smaller Jeeps such as the M151, M561, and other light trucks. Primarily used by the United States military, it is also used by a number of other countries and organizations and in civilian adaptations (Hummer).
The HMMWV was designed primarily for personnel and light cargo transport behind front lines. Like the previous Jeep, the basic HMMWV (M998) has no armor or protection against nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. Nevertheless, losses were relatively low in conventional operations. With the rise of asymmetric warfare and low intensity conflicts, the military recognized a need for a more protected HMMWV and AM General developed the M1113, an armoured HMMWV to withstand small arms fire that had been in limited production since 1996. Its design is superior to the M998 with a larger, more powerful turbocharged engine, air conditioning, increased payload, and a strengthened suspension system. More importantly, it boasts a fully armoured passenger area protected by hardened steel and bullet-resistant glass.
There are at least 17 variants of the HMMWV in service with the United States armed forces. HMMWVs serve as cargo/troop carriers, automatic weapons platforms, ambulances (four litter patients or eight ambulatory patients), M220 TOW missile carriers, M119 howitzer prime movers, M1097 Avenger Pedestal Mounted Stinger platforms, MRQ-12 direct air support vehicles, S250 shelter carriers, and other roles. In all configuration, it shares a common engine, chassis and transmission, with 44 interchangeable parts that are used in more than one position. That means fewer training hours are necessary for the mechanics who will maintain it, simplified supply, maintenance and logistics system, and lower life-cycle costs in the long run.
There are many features of the HMMWV; it is capable of fording 2.5 ft (76 cm) normally, or 5 ft (1.5 m) with the deep-water fording kits installed, it includes a winch with maximum load capacity of 6000 lb/2700 kg, 16-inch ground clearance, full-time four-wheel drive, independent suspension, steep approach and departure angles, 60 percent slope-climbing, 40 percent side slope capability, a payload of 2,500 lbs, and is able to be retrofitted with add-on armour. HMMWVs are also air transportable and droppable, and can be sling-loaded by helicopters. Three HMMWVs can be carried in a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and 15 in a C-5A Galaxy. In combat conditions, the HMMWV can be delivered by the Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System without the aircraft having to land.

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Humvee Climbing Vertical Wall 2

HMMWV in deep mud

Some military off road vehicles from around the world!

Crusher (CMU's military Unmanned Ground Vehicle)

Crusher is a 6.5-ton autonomous off-road Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle developed by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center for DARPA.
The robot can travel over extreme terrain, such as a 4-foot vertical wall, and is able to carry more than 8,000 pounds of payload at a top speed of 26 miles per hour. It was on display in Pittsburgh on April 29, 2006. Its first two years of military service will be restricted to support role duties.

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Military offroaders from Russia

VITYAZ TRANSPORTERS
By 1985, an intensive research and development program to create a family of what is known to be the Vityaz two-unit CTVs had been completed. This family includes:
- two-unit transport vehicles DT-10, DT-20 and DT-30, with a load-carrying capacity of 10, 20 and 30 tons, respectively;
- two-unit amphibious transporters DT-10P, DT-20P and DT-30P with similar specifications as the regular transporters.
Currently, Vityaz CTVs are in use throughout the whole territory of Russia, as well as in the harsh regions of the Arctic and Antarctica. They are an invaluable part of the transport services for prominent companies such as Gazprom JSC, Rosneftegazstroi, Rosneftegaz JSC, etc. They serve as primary transport vehicles for the personnel who service the extensive oil and gas pipelines throughout Russia, for geologists and scientists who research the dangerous, faraway destinations of Antartica and the Arctic regions. The construction and service industries are also benefiting from the advantages of these vehicles. The DT-30K crane, the DT-30E excavator, refuelling vehicles, mobile workshops, mobile oil refineries, passenger transporters, firefighting vehicles, etc. are mounted on Vityaz chassis. These vehicles are in demand not only in Russia, but throughout the countries of the Middle East and Asia, as well as in North and South America.
Years of operation of these vehicles have proved their reliability and robust design. The vehicle-s design primarily features an unconventional pattern of four active track envelopes providing for large surface contact with the ground for greater stability. In addition to this feature, these ATVs ensures the so called -kinematic method- for turning the articulated tracked vehicle through the -forced folding- of its units. The kinematic method of turn provides a positive tracking force for all tracks during linear movement and while making turns. A combination of the kinematic method of turn and a powerful multifuel engine, along with a hydromechanical transmission, unique track and suspension system with wide band tracks, road wheels with rubber pads, and vertical hydraulic cylinders which allow the two vehicle units to move vertically in relation to each other, make the articulated vehicles with a maximum weight of up to 60 tons more capable in terms of their swamp-, moving sand- loose soil- and snow-going capacity, than any type of single-unit swamp- and snow-going vehicle.
As the two units can be turned relative to each other in the vertical and horizontal planes via hydraulic cylinders or, conversely, can be fixed, the two-unit vehicle can negotiate short (equal to the length of one unit) sections of difficult terrain and such obstacles as ditches and walls and come out of water onto an unprepared bank, ice, or peat.
Owing to their unique design, the Vityaz family of ATVs are capable of operating in conditions impossible for other all-terrain vehicles, for example:
- amphibious return to a mother ship;
- off-road movement with one unit disabled or without one, or even without both tracks of one of the units;
- negotiating ditches and clefts up to 4.0 m wide.
- unloading of a ship offshore if it cannot come close to waterfront (i.e. in the Arctics and Antarctica regions, or in flooded regions, etc.); negotiating waterways in severe ice conditions;
- operation in mountains up to an altitude of 4,000 m.
The DT-10P and DT-30P ATVs are widely used by Russian troops deployed in challenging environmental regions, on islands (for transporting army elements, ammunition, equipment, FOLs and installation of weapon systems). These vehicles are also used by various industries in regions with poor access roads and climatic conditions. They are used to transport various cargoes; deploy digging, forest-working, power, and firefighting equipment; deploy mobile polyclinics and bakeries; transport cranes, excavators, water tanks, etc.; make amphibious unloading of cargoes; tow ships; heave off ships and barges; as well as perform prospecting work on shallow areas of shelf zones.

UAZ - the legendary military car, simple and reliable as AK-47!

Alvis Stalwart 6x6 Off-Road

Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility vehicles off-road at a sand quarry in Staffordshire UK. Filmed mid 1990s.

Military Vehicles [United States]: Joint Light Tactical Vehicle/JLTV Prototypes (Lockheed Martin)

Lockeed Martin's proposal for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program is a vehicle designed with "MRAP-like" survivability and protection based on modular survivability. The hull is designed with V shape and has A-kit armor and B-kit attachments for enhanced protection.
According to the manufacturer, the vehicle's high on- and off-road mobility is provided by patented variable height suspension and stability control, contributed by the AxelTech automotive technology. The team selected a Cummins 340 hp turbo diesel engine and Allison 2500SP transmission to power its JLTV prototype.
The Lockheed Martin JLTV team has built three prototype vehicles, demonstrating each of the planned JLTV categories; the Combat Tactical Vehicle (CTV), Utility Vehicle (UV) and Long-Range strike-reconnaissance variant (LRV)
A fourth prototype has also been unveiled; an operational second variant of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Infantry Carrier Category B model, at the Association of the United States Army Winter Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Since October 2007, the Lockheed Martin-led JLTV Team has introduced four prototypes: its original Infantry Carrier JLTV Category B model, which is designed for troop transportation and was unveiled in October 2007; the Utility Vehicle Light Category C model, which is designed with a focus on payload and was introduced in February 2008; the General Purpose Mobility Category A model, which is designed for logistical support and was unveiled in October 2008; and the latest, a second variant of the Infantry Carrier Category B model.
Currently all of the Lockheed Martin JLTV prototypes are in system test. To date, they have accumulated over 30,000 combined test miles, more than half of which have been conducted off-road to simulate mission conditions. Lockheed Martin is also preparing the vehicles for low rate production.

Military Vehicles [China]: CNHTC HOWO MTV

CNHTC HOWO is a military cargo truck, available in 6-wheel drive and 8-wheel drive configuration, that fulfills the role of MTV (Medium Tactical Vehicle) in the People's Liberation Army - Ground Force/PLAGF.
The trucks are built by the Chinese National Heavy-duty Truck Company/CNHTC, a state-owned truck manufacturing enterprise headquartered in Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China (PRC). It is currently the third largest truck manufacturer in that country.

[Russia]: GAZ-3937 Aquarius AAV

GAZ-3937 "Vodnik" is a Russian AAV (Amphibious Assault Vehicle) manufactured by GAZ. It is a modification of the civilian GAZ-2330 (military version is the GAZ-2975) with a water-displacing hermetic hull fitted instead, which provides improved fording performance.
Its name comes from the Russian Vodník, in Slavic mythology a male water spirit, and a possible translation into English could be Aquarius or Merman. (In modern Russian use, though, Vodnik simply means a person employed in water transport (i.e. a boatman), or in land amelioration (drainage, irrigation, leaching of saline soils, landslide and flood control)).
The vehicle is powered by a 175 hp (130 kW) diesel engine giving a top speed of 112 km/h or 4 to 5 km/h when swimming. The vehicle is unique in having standard undercarriage with a cab that can be fitted with a number of different modules with various number of passenger seats and cargo compartments.
The vehicles currently are deployed in many configurations with The Russian Federation Ground Forces or "Suhopútnuiye Voyská Rosseeyskoy Federácii.

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