High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) Gun Trucks
USMC HMMWV with Explosive Resistant Coating (ERC) armor doors, an armor plate rear box, and safari rack roof, Camp Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq, 24 July 2004.
Counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have encountered many of the same threats as similar operations in Vietnam, particularly regarding attacks on convoys. This reality led to a similar response as in Vietnam: locally fabricated armor was used to field-modify HMMWVs and heavier trucks to protect convoy drivers and escort troops as well as to provide overwhelming firepower to repel attacks. From this, the HMMWV gun truck emerged.
HMMWV with armor plate roof, armor plate rear box, and rear pedestal mount machine gun.
There is no official HMMWV gun truck that has been standardized. In fact, the Up-Armored HMMWV with its gunner's shield and armored turret is the preferred standard solution. But unofficially modified HMMWV Gun Trucks were produced in the field by adding armor plate, Kevlar blankets, custom gun mounts, storage enlargement, and other modifications determined to be successful by units fighting in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). The examples on this page show some of those vehicles, crude but effective implements to repel the unconventional forces encountered.
HMMWV with roof ring mount augmented with fabricated gunner shields, doors, and boxed rear area.
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