The Truth About Military Vehicles
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Date: 2019-05-28
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Henry Ostman
Military vehicles are a cross between the lowest possible bidder and large payoffs to congressmen. Worse yet, really poor thinking, most military vehicles spend Most of their time on paved roads trying to do highway speeds and they have those terrible military ribbed tires that can skid on a dry road, Ill bet as well, that on an offroad course, a lot of 4wd pickups and SUVs would outperform most military vehicles, mayB not taking the worse of the lumps but being far more reliable and when they do break, field repairable. In Afghanistan, the US Army has a fleet of mid sized Toyota pickups a lot like the toyota tacoma crew cabs sold here. they are faster than the military equivalent (a lot) that allows them to blend in with civilian traffic plus the toyota is the most common civilian vehicle there, hey, and they have A/C, nothing beats that on a summer day in the ghan.
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Military vehicles are a cross between the lowest possible bidder and large payoffs to congressmen. Worse yet, really poor thinking, most military vehicles spend Most of their time on paved roads trying to do highway speeds and they have those terrible military ribbed tires that can skid on a dry road, Ill bet as well, that on an offroad course, a lot of 4wd pickups and SUVs would outperform most military vehicles, mayB not taking the worse of the lumps but being far more reliable and when they do break, field repairable. In Afghanistan, the US Army has a fleet of mid sized Toyota pickups a lot like the toyota tacoma crew cabs sold here. they are faster than the military equivalent (a lot) that allows them to blend in with civilian traffic plus the toyota is the most common civilian vehicle there, hey, and they have A/C, nothing beats that on a summer day in the ghan.
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George Dang
Hummers are junk. You cant just blame the drivers and mechanics. They tested Hummer, Toyota Hilux (known as Tacoma in US, and Chinese militarys BJ truck on a 1600 acre offroad track. Median range between failure is 280 miles for Hummer, 3190 miles for Toyota Hilux, and 4682 miles for the Chinese military grade BJ truck. The Hummer is laughably bad, especially when compared against the Toyota Tacoma, a civilian onroad truck that wasnt supposed to last nearly that long in the harsh test track before one of the front shock assembly finally gave out. The American military industry complex is a stagnant, corrupt swamp gauging on tax payer dollars. US military should just import their military trucks from China and call it a day.
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Hummers are junk. You cant just blame the drivers and mechanics. They tested Hummer, Toyota Hilux (known as Tacoma in US, and Chinese militarys BJ truck on a 1600 acre offroad track. Median range between failure is 280 miles for Hummer, 3190 miles for Toyota Hilux, and 4682 miles for the Chinese military grade BJ truck. The Hummer is laughably bad, especially when compared against the Toyota Tacoma, a civilian onroad truck that wasnt supposed to last nearly that long in the harsh test track before one of the front shock assembly finally gave out. The American military industry complex is a stagnant, corrupt swamp gauging on tax payer dollars. US military should just import their military trucks from China and call it a day.
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Tad P
Ive got a civilian H1 and yes, its a maintenance intensive vehicle. I expressed my surprise that the military would put soldiers in such unreliable vehicles to an aftermarket expert in these trucks. He said that they were never meant to be reliable - they were meant to be easy to work on in a motor pool - and they are. Everything is easy to get to. Ball joints take about 10 minutes per hub to replace both uppers and lowers. The entire engine is accessible and easy to get to (once the doghouse is removed. Every HMMWV is basically rebuilt from scratch after X amount of time - so they never were designed to be reliable - which is why the civilian version of the H1 is just as bad.
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Ive got a civilian H1 and yes, its a maintenance intensive vehicle. I expressed my surprise that the military would put soldiers in such unreliable vehicles to an aftermarket expert in these trucks. He said that they were never meant to be reliable - they were meant to be easy to work on in a motor pool - and they are. Everything is easy to get to. Ball joints take about 10 minutes per hub to replace both uppers and lowers. The entire engine is accessible and easy to get to (once the doghouse is removed. Every HMMWV is basically rebuilt from scratch after X amount of time - so they never were designed to be reliable - which is why the civilian version of the H1 is just as bad.
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The Mosin Crate
I own a military Humvee and it has been extremely reliable. Like anything else its all about keeping the maintenance done. People think because its military they can abuse it and never change the oil, then they call it a hunk of junk when it breaks down. Secondly the military really does abuse them and poorly maintain them. When they overheat out in the field they will put muddy creek water in the radiator rather than antifreeze(Which they dont have one hand) being a perfect example. Love my M998 Oh and the civi versions do suck because they are nothing like the military version(other than the H1)
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I own a military Humvee and it has been extremely reliable. Like anything else its all about keeping the maintenance done. People think because its military they can abuse it and never change the oil, then they call it a hunk of junk when it breaks down. Secondly the military really does abuse them and poorly maintain them. When they overheat out in the field they will put muddy creek water in the radiator rather than antifreeze(Which they dont have one hand) being a perfect example. Love my M998 Oh and the civi versions do suck because they are nothing like the military version(other than the H1)
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Detective Hoots
The Ferdinand, a WW2 German tank destroyer, would essentially explode and catch on fire, if it went up any kind of hill. This was because of the overly complicated and under powered engine and transmission. Im pretty sure it was the same design that lost Porsche the Tiger tank contract to Henschel. So Porsche then takes his failed Tiger prototype, puts the same failure engine and transmission inside it and straps on a whole lot more armor to boot. With the SAME under powered engine and transmission (Yup, I said that twice. But hey, it had a really big and awesome gun. Typical stubborn German.
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The Ferdinand, a WW2 German tank destroyer, would essentially explode and catch on fire, if it went up any kind of hill. This was because of the overly complicated and under powered engine and transmission. Im pretty sure it was the same design that lost Porsche the Tiger tank contract to Henschel. So Porsche then takes his failed Tiger prototype, puts the same failure engine and transmission inside it and straps on a whole lot more armor to boot. With the SAME under powered engine and transmission (Yup, I said that twice. But hey, it had a really big and awesome gun. Typical stubborn German.
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Robert D.
About 15yrs ago I installed, unknowingly, Chinese made rotors on my Mercury Topaz work-mobile. The rotors didnt survive 12 miles before they warmed so badly the car wasnt safe. I replaced them and they survived about 22 miles. I took those crap rotors back too and asked for my money back. They gave it back no questions asked. I went to another supplier that was OEM USA-made, they lasted until the car died. Ive never installed Chinese rotors on any of my cars since.
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About 15yrs ago I installed, unknowingly, Chinese made rotors on my Mercury Topaz work-mobile. The rotors didnt survive 12 miles before they warmed so badly the car wasnt safe. I replaced them and they survived about 22 miles. I took those crap rotors back too and asked for my money back. They gave it back no questions asked. I went to another supplier that was OEM USA-made, they lasted until the car died. Ive never installed Chinese rotors on any of my cars since.
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Cole Peterson
Well with the government having no incentive to cut costs or increase efficiency of their operations things like this are expected. Why put effort into designing more reliable vehicles that do the same things when your customer is always going to give you the money to fix them. Why improve the customer service system for the irs? Why improve the prison system? Why work to cut costs anywhere or make anybody happy at all?
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Well with the government having no incentive to cut costs or increase efficiency of their operations things like this are expected. Why put effort into designing more reliable vehicles that do the same things when your customer is always going to give you the money to fix them. Why improve the customer service system for the irs? Why improve the prison system? Why work to cut costs anywhere or make anybody happy at all?
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Divertedflight
The track servicing problem with a lot of the German tanks was due to the large interlaced wheels which drove and supported the heavy tanks very well. The problem was that if one of the inner wheels was damaged, two to three of the perfectly fine outer wheels had to be removed to get to the wheel needing to be replaced. And then of course put them all back on again, instead of just taking off and replacing one wheel.
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The track servicing problem with a lot of the German tanks was due to the large interlaced wheels which drove and supported the heavy tanks very well. The problem was that if one of the inner wheels was damaged, two to three of the perfectly fine outer wheels had to be removed to get to the wheel needing to be replaced. And then of course put them all back on again, instead of just taking off and replacing one wheel.
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J. Lee That's Me
Hi ScottyI have a 2018 EcoBoost Mustang. Whydoes Ford limit it to 121 mph? Also, Im glad to see a military vehicle video. When I was in the US Army, the up-armored HMMWV assigned to me had a fire in a headlight at 19 miles and got 11 mpg on JP8. I see the government is selling some to the public now. Daily driver? LOL Of course, the LMTV assigned to a fellow NCO got 2 mpg (highway) on JP8 when fully loaded. HAHA
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Hi ScottyI have a 2018 EcoBoost Mustang. Whydoes Ford limit it to 121 mph? Also, Im glad to see a military vehicle video. When I was in the US Army, the up-armored HMMWV assigned to me had a fire in a headlight at 19 miles and got 11 mpg on JP8. I see the government is selling some to the public now. Daily driver? LOL Of course, the LMTV assigned to a fellow NCO got 2 mpg (highway) on JP8 when fully loaded. HAHA
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