Serving the defense forces since 1985, a tough, near-perfect contender was needed to replace the legendary Humvee.

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WASHINGTON – The Army is swapping an icon – the 40-year-old Humvee – for a lighter, faster, cheaper truck designed for future battlefields. The Infantry Squad Vehicle, more dune buggy than armored ...

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Armor Holdings Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded two contracts worth $50.6 million to provide the U.S. Army with protective body armor plates and spare armor components for up-armored ...

Humvees, officially known as HMMWVs (High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles), are rugged military machines built to handle a wide range of combat roles. Although these are being slowly phased ...

Armored Holdings, the only maker of armor for Humvees, said it recently expanded its manufacturing capacity 20% in anticipation of Pentagon orders. But those orders have yet to materialize as the ...

ROCK ISLAND -- To protect American soldiers, the Rock Island Arsenal is moving into high gear to produce 500 armored door kits to replace canvas now used on Army Humvees in Iraq. ``We're just starting ...

CAMP MORGAN, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Back in Minnesota, Sgt. Joe Winters of Little Falls is a gunner on one of the 2nd Battalion, 194th Armor's 67-ton M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks. Here at this U.S ...

TIKRIT, Iraq -- Soldiers exposed to Iraq's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their ...

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