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New Air Force 5 ton or whatever...

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Who specs out the trucks for the military. I wonder if they ever called on a fleet thant ran IHC 7400's in any number and asked them about their downtime/life cycle costs. The IHC 7400's in the industry that I work have not worked very well to be nice. From the electrical gremlins with IHC's multiplexing to the DT466/DT570's shelling out injectors and turbo's like crazy. The days of the mechanical and durable DT's are longggg gone. What happened to real miliatary trucks?

Andy
 

Melvinitis

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RE: Re: RE: trucks

One of the neatest things I see is those buck five farm girls driving the Oskhosh's. I had an 18 year old female soldier, that if she was lucky, wieghed 105. It was the neatest thing.
 

N1265

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RE: Electronic dieselVS Multifuel!!??

Looks like they even come with a sleeper so you can take a nap while waiting for someone to tow you back to base..... Now how thoughtful is that.
 

ARMYMAN30YearsPlus

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RE: Electronic dieselVS Multifuel!!??

The Air Force buys lots of equipment that we never get to see unless it is while they are flying us out of an airbase for a tactical jump or a spin down landing at a threatened landing strip. Most likely they are going to a ground support role on airbases around the world at the behest of a TALC or other ground element.

I have seen lots of little women driving trucks in my days in the Army they do have challenges changing tires that even a big guy struggles with.
 

Crash_AF

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RE: Re: RE: trucks

If you look closely, there is a gun ring on the roof... the extended cab is probably to make enough room for the mount and gunner to stand.

Later,
Joe
 

D'cheat

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RE: Re: RE: trucks

Our Bush Fire crews here in Nevada are using the exact same truck. Decent suspension flex, powerful engine, gobs of clearance under the axles. I like em :)
 
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