Why it SUCKS inside a HUMVEE
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2022
- The Humvee is a lightweight highly mobile four-wheel-drive tactical vehicle and soldiers have absolutely hated being inside of them ever since they were first used by the US military in 1983.
While its design makes this ultra rugged vehicle capable of crossing virtually any terrain even under adverse conditions, unlike commercial vehicles, the Humvee was definitely not designed for comfort. Quite the opposite in fact.
The seats are uncomfortable, all the equipment inside means there's not much room to move around, and the air conditioning often breaks down. Not great when you’re in Iraq and temperatures can be over 113 degrees fahrenheit.
Humvees are prone to rolling over and they’re particularly vulnerable to improvised explosive devices, so they’re often equipped with armor plating that’s capable of withstanding RPG attacks, grenades, and AK-47 fire. All this protection can lead to soldiers feeling like they’re riding around in a claustrophobic metal box, but leadership wants soldiers to remember that they're in a tactical vehicle not a luxury car, and all the things that make it suck to be inside might just save their life in the event of an attack.
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so the humvee is basically the embodiment of "fuck you but thank you"
Idk where u got the thank you part Mr.Ukulele
@@blaiseedmond2781 it's made to save lives, it sucks, but it will also save your ass when shit hits the fan.
It's more like *Fuck you but you are welcome*
Yez
Lmào. Also, it's not just the AC that breaks down. EVERYTHING often broke down hahahah
Tank operators: "it must be nice..."
🥶SSSHHHHEEEEE I guess so...
Lol I remember When i Going Tank Museum And When i Go Inside its so Hot
@@CatFIB can't deny that. It's more hotter in tropical country. I just hope they put air conditioner in armored vehicle
@@kammmmal211 too expensive, that's a no.
on a tank at least you get passive air conditioning.
@@jaggns5774 Crew efficiency can be increase though. Well a fan is enough i guess...
Keep in mind, despite having some of these in their wheelhouse, the Taliban still uses Toyota Pickup trucks.
Guess that the Taliban want a comfy ride.
Albeit there will be the guy who will vomit due to car sickness.
@@delta5-126 my money would be to blend in
Special forces uses Toyota pick up trucks to
And thousands of humvees isn't "some"
The Taliban uses whatever it can, including donkeys.
“Able to traverse adverse conditions”
*flashbacks to the multiple times Ive been stuck in mud with a humvee*
Also said along with "likeliness to flip over"
Oh god the flash backs!!
@@kamikaze4172 Not really. Need a 45 degree slope!! And if you don’t notice a 45 degree Angle then you deserve to Roll Over!!!
Able to does not mean that it will
had great offroad capabilities until they strapped on more steel than it could carry
I like how you mentioned AK fire after RPGs, implying that something that can withstand an anti tank round can struggle against 5.45 or 7.62
Thank you wise Genesect!
@@PorscheRoseSylveon I aim to please!
Its because of the method It uses to withstand a rpg round.
It’s because of reactive armor AFAIK
@@LordDoucheBags I wasn’t asking how it could survive it, merely commenting on how the video worded it
The air conditioning often breaks? It’s hard to break something that doesn’t exist. Ha air conditioning…
What the Humvee had Air conditioning! 😯 boy wish someone told me that lol.
Some do have ac now. It sucks. But it's there. Usually leaks refrigerant and when working it doesn't work that well.
Lol I'll take the more reliable MRAP lol and the AC worked the majority of the time.
I died from how true this comment is 🤣
I didnt even know it had AC... I thought that was the function if you wanted to breathe literal dust
My knees started hurting while watching this. He also forgot to mention when you get past 55mph you experience what it's like to re-enter the atmosphere in the space shuttles.
This made me laugh more than it should have... So true.!! Loud, hot, chaotic.... God help us.
The shuttle was actually really smooth during reentry. It's what made the video shot by the astronauts inside the Columbia before it broke up so eerie...
I couldnt feel my legs the entire video
The whine is so bad that you think the engine will break up and you will go boom.
Lmao
I get that the Humvee isn't meant to be a luxury vehicle, but it seems like A/C would be so essential to troop morale that it would be worth shelling an extra $2,000 per vehicle for a reliable system.
No, stop the military doesn't function on those terms
One massive prollem, fella:
These are made by General Motors. GM doesn't make "reliable systems".
Or comfy seats.
I get that the car has to be armored to keep the people in there safe. But would it reduce the safety that much if they added some comfy seats? Are they afraid that the soldiers are staying in the car in case of a fire because the seats are too comfy?
@@labinot1363 comfort cost money it's cheaper to mass produce discomfort
That's good ol' 'murica for ya!
We didn’t have any damn AC
I'll go as far as day it had fake vents installed. But I swear those where to vent extra heat away from the engine
My up armored had ac.
I never seen a humv withvac deployed 2003 2004 2006
Well, that must've been @@THCv3
We had a small fan that did almost nothing (of course only for the front seats) you didn’t have that?
As leg infantry I can't even come close to expressing how much I enjoyed that metal box in Iraq. It was like standing up with a blow dryer in your face all day, but I wasn't walking.
Haha that's exactly how I describe the weather when you first get off that plane, the memories of trying to stay awake whilst up through the sunroof and trying to stay alert stuck with me too
Ahhh. Someone was a gunner I see. Lol we used to fight over who sat in which back seat. I forgot which but one had more foot room.
Man my knees use to kill me sitting in that damn humvee too long.
American mobile coffins
@@oscarosullivan4513 Except they kept alive many soldiers that were in the Battle of Mogadishu. Those HUMVEEs were riddled with bullet dents.
@@oscarosullivan4513 you only hear about the ones who didn't make it, not the ones who were saved.
I suffered a heat exhaustion event in a Humvee while in Iraq. But I still loved my Humvee and was glad to be able to drive her around. She was a shitbox, but she was MY shitbox!
*Too bad you weren't able to bring her home* 😔
@@DjHazardous The gas bills would bankrupt him haha
It's like the chant about the rifle being our own. When signed to a H1 it's ours and our home away from home.
do you know why they are so wide?
@@emile7452 traction , hidden explosives if they were to go off not all inside would be hurt unless shrapnel goes up into the cab. The early Military H1's had very little under body armor protection but with a thick sheet of armor plates we could retrofit armor sheeting to protect the cab , fuel tanks and axels.
I have permanent hearing loss after an air compressor inside exploded while four of us were inside. I had the worst migraine of my life for an entire week.
Was it a horizontal tank? Apparently, the seam is always at the bottom where the moisture collects, and it rusts out and blows.
@@BlackEpyon it was.
The saying goes. It’s fits equipment comfortably not people
@Tearjerker they are people-
@@everybadday when they go to war they are basically tools.the government don't give two shits about the soldiers...well they do care when they die cuz it's pain to do funerals.
@@Comfy_Bed no it's a pain cause they can't use them anymore.
Can you guys stfu thinking soldier were a tool not a human, do you think you live in the imperial time ? Even tho the Monarch use them rentlessly to make their kingdom bigger but its still a fact the people get the goods effect to for farm, factory, mine, iron, coal.
Do you think why the brithis were rich? Because they have a lot of colony, land, farm, the mineral. How they get them? Because the soldier! Even tho they die, at least their family can life a better life than before!
Not only that, do you think the goverment youink or chose the people to become a soldier? No, its the people who chose to be an soldier! (Except in hard time like ww1/2) And yes those people know they will die, but at least they become a strong and honorable people!
The good ol days of sand bags on the floor are behind us.
That may even still be used for added protection against IEDs
That hurts my soul
The best is when you hit a pot hole or hump going 50mph
@@PEEPEEPOOP1 *laughs in cracked hood*
@@tonypepperoni3157 cracked hood?!?! You mean cracked back…
"It's tactical, not comfortable."
Yep, that's the military alright.
Fr tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣these youtubers
“Air conditioning often breaks” never once was I inside one that ever had working AC down range
I am 6'5"... deployed in 05. I kicked through the door once while shifting a cheek. Testament to how cramped and poorly armored those things were when I was in the military.
Great thing is I got in just last year and we still using the same ones lmao thank you for what you did brother
🤣
Oh man how did you fit I’m 5’9 and it was cramped for me
Isn’t there a new transport vehicle the US military mostly uses nowadays? I think it’s called an MRAP?
@@Stiggy_Sped they have the new MRAP but the military mostly still uses older vehicles
“Withstanding RPG attacks” no.
RPG attacks and AK47 fire...
Those are not equivalents.
With plating, they probably can withstand 7.62mms, but I dont know how he extrapolated that ROGs can be blocked as well.
It all depends on Armor LVL and Angle of Attack!! If you Vault Doors LVL 3!! Have a Good Chance of surviving Hit on Sides!! The REAL KILLER OF HV IS IED or Anti Tank mine!! As your only sitting on 1/2 inch of Plate between you/Gas Tank and the Explosion!!! I spent 5 months doing Vehicle Recovery in Afghanistan 06-08. Also upgraded Many HV from LVL 1 to LVL 3!! Truth is HV sucks!! And MRAP is Far Superior!! And you have A way Higher Chance of Survival in an MRAP!!
All I know is, as a HMMWV driver, those up-armored doors were heavy as fuck. God help you when you inevitably get your fingers stuck between. It's a bitch
@@kirbotastic9397 With the FRAG 5 armor upgrade the side windows have stopped RPGs. I saw it with my own eyes in Northern Iraq.
@@iamzuesthisisthetruth8864 MRAPS have crappy suspension compared to the M1151. I'd take the Humvee anyday over anything else.
I’ve only seen one with working AC and it was a beautiful thing, and I’ve seen well over 100 of these things, in a lot of configurations
I'll be honest. I loved the Humvees that we drove in. My favorite part was converting the back seat into a bed so I could sleep.
They are honestly not that bad...unless you have to sleep in it lol
@@cameronspence4977 I didn't say it wasn't that bad unless you have to sleep in in. Please don't change my words around to make it into something it's not. I said I loved the Humvees that we drove in. That was one statement. I then said my favorite part was converting the back into a bed. I was a radio operator in the Marine Corps. Our Humvees had plastic tarps so it wasn't that hot inside during the summer. The heater worked well in the winter while on deployment to Norway. They were very reliable as well. As far as my comment about converting the back into a bed. I said that because 90 percent of the time we trained I was sent to a location with my gear and the vehicle for days without a tent. We used shelter halfs instead and if you didn't have somebody to partner with it was pointless setting it up. So when you are trying to stay warm and dry you use what you have to adapt to the situation you are dealt. If I'm misunderstanding your statement I apologize
@@emeterioarredondo8755 Yeah you SEVERELY misunderstood his statement
@@alejandro80021no he didn’t he understood clearly and that guy was doing exactly as he said 🤷♂️
The heat also goes out but that only happens when it’s cold
Fan works in Germany, heater works in Iraq
@@zrspangle RIP
Truth!!
@@zrspangle aint that the truth
LMAO
Friendly reminder that “military grade” actually means “just barely suitable for combat use”
Edit: seriously, It’s said in the video, on the internet, by marines, SAS, navy/RFA, Hell, my sea cadets first lieutenant said it, if you think I’m lying just look it up or ask someone in the military.
Military grade just means cheapest possible. I worked on decommissioned Humvees that our police force has now. My God, those things were huge hunks of shit.
And built by the lowest bidder.
@@skimbeeble6143 Military, to my very untrained eye, means built with insanely expensive custom-made and possibly discontinued components to fulfill bogus requirements made up by clueless politicians, but the system overall sucks a**, is 10-20 years behind on technology, and isn't what the soldiers actually need.
@@user2C47 it's not expensive at all. It's literally built cheap as possible. There's only 1 reason they still use the GM 6.5 Turbo Diesel pile of trash. It's the cheapest "big" diesel engine on the market.
@@user2C47 Let me guess, you use Reddit? Lmfao
Soldiers: nooo i dont like being in a claustrophobic metal box so unconfortable.
Tank crew: first time?
Meanwhile, Canada rolls up in a G Wagen
They make you ride in Humvee’s so your good n mad when the fighting starts!...
Lol.. thx for the joke
That could be the military’s ulterior motive
Each time I ride in one I think "How is sitting on a stiff board going to help save my life" lol they could have at least putt some padding on the seats, or designed them to contort to your back, so you don't get problems, but instead we got a seat that looks like this _| and if you haven't rode in one before (I know the original commentor has) your hurting by the time you get out of one if you have back issues like I do. There is a reason we're switching to what the British have been using for like 10 years lol.
@@youtubestuff683 Yeah I got back problems too and riding in them killed my back, if it wasn’t hurting when I got in it definitely will be when I get out...
Tired and distracted, is probably more likely.
Air conditioning?
It was just a fan.
Oh did your engine overheat during an invasion in a country with temperatures at 120°f? Turn on the heat.
Oh are you in full MOPP because you thought they had chemical weapons?
Tough shit turn on the heat anyway.
Convoy has to keep moving.
I know, right!! 😅😅. A/C 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Classics 🤣🤣🤣
Literally what we experience inside our civic buses in Kazakhstan every summer. So f@king hot and still have to turn on the heating.
Back to the video. I assume this issues are relatable to military vehicles in all countries. To Russian for sure.
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Lol Right? I'd take the inside of an LMTV any day.
You got a fan? 😂
"It's designed for safety, not comfort"
"Okay, but can't you get some actually decent seats? ...And make sure we don't die of heatstroke?"
HYF you manage to get heat stroke when you’re sitting on your ass riding around 🤦♂️🤷♂️🫵🤡
The fact that it even has an air conditioner makes it one of the good ones.
I’ve seen my humvee catch on fire more just sitting in the motorpool than when it’s actually being used.
That's because it hates it's own existence
That's never happened and I've never heard of they happening either. I used a humvee my first half in the Army and it was a fanatic vehicle.
@@NinjaSushi2 humvees are literally hot garbage I don’t what generation army you are but if your from the last like two generations humvees are terrible which is why they’re getting replaced by the JLTV which depending on who you ask is either worse or better. Personally I think the JLTV is better made however for a tactical vic I think it needs some work. (Note: I don’t hate the humvees they hold a special place in my heart because of the boys I had with me in my crew but they are terrible)
@@averagetexan1472 imma miss humvees the jltv looks weird
@@averagetexan1472they’re not terrible you just don’t know WTF you’re talking about 🤦♂️🤷♂️🫵🤡
“Air conditioning often breaks” *laughs in medic*
Sweating balls. Crying in line medic.
@@medicusofthedamned I just got moved to the line😂
"Able to drive through virtually any terrain " *flashbacks to being in a humvee that became stuck on a boulder*
Can you explain that one
@@wonderofyou3174 explaination: boulder made humvee stuck.
@@noreoz1024 I’m just imagining a humvee on top of a boulder 💀
@@wonderofyou3174 the Boulder Incident, 27. March, 2008 💀
@@noreoz1024if you ended up stuck on a fvkng rock while driving a humvee you deserved to be court martialed For misuse of government property 🫵🤡
You lost me at "the humvee is lightweight". 😂 😂 😂
They also were never designed for armored combat. They were meant to be a replacement utility vehicle for the Jeep. It was the failure of the M110 Bradley as an APC that forced the humvee to be pressed into service as an armored patrol vehicle.
The m151 was wayyyy bettee
Turning circle is awful and you can't see around you when your driving there's giant blind spots.... it looks bad ass tho
Maybe slowing the speed down and bringing it to a near halt then first turning your steer all the way then add th fuel, maybe this should work? I may be wrong :/
@@vinayakonimani7628 I was used to the modified Land rover snatch Brit vehicle and was excited to drive the hummer, the land rover was fantastic but top heavy and hummers look amazing, for a 100 000 dollar vehicle I was disappointed 😞 you don't see them on Brit roads because they can't turn I learned its a lot like driving a bus so for 100000 you can get more for your buck
@@leightonsullivan3552 i see :O
@@vinayakonimani7628 Even if you do that, all cars have a limit to their turning circle. Im guessing a Humvee's is way too large
@@Pao234_ yes, i got your point, like a minimum circumference that it can cut, ryt?
Hell yeah i hated riding in the Humvee when i was in the military but its not worse as riding in a tank. What's crazy i own a Humvee but i made mine luxury lol
Fun fact, sometimes the TC position (front passenger seat) will get super hot because the damned batteries will ground out underneath the butt cushion and catch on fire.
Good times.
“Leadership wants them to know they’re in a tactical vehicle” dude… if that logic isn’t the most army crap I’ve ever heard
We want to purposefully give you pain to remind you that you're in war,
And also give you back pain and extreme discomfort that lowers crew performance.
What are they gonna do next? Unironically play "Collective Consciousness" from MGR and expect their soldiers to be chill with anything?
This is 1 reason enlistment are dropping. Treat soldiers like they are human and not expendable machines
That soft top open tactical.
What more would you like ?
A subway , dominos maybe ? Lol
A spa after a strike ?
"Highly mobile" lmao
“Light”
They are light considering they were only about 10-15k pounds depending on the model. They were also mobile as fuck. We never did get a humvee stuck and even had all the tires blown out and still drove it back to base just fine. Those Cummings engines were fucking beast. It takes a lot of power to move 15k lbs 65 miles an hour.
Edited for grammar.
What? You expecting soldiers to pull up with a Koenigsegg? 😂
@@ovalhead1412 bruh what?
@@yaboi1288 fucking off-road Koenigsegg lol
You forgot to mention how it constantly breaks down and sometimes doesn't start when you really need it to
You just made a bullshit statement 🫵🤡
My first time in a humvee with experienced soldiers who hate it: isn't this so cool? I've always loved these
You got me at "The Humvee is a lightweight"
Yes for its size
Lightweight compared with Armored Personnel Carrier and Main Battle Tank
@@ferv888until you put up armor on, which typically a lot of them are that are in graveyard
@@ferv888 even for its size its still considered medium weight. Literally in the name “HMMWV”
@@TopMep Where the medium in the name? HMMWV stands for "High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle"
Actually during the gulf War my uncle was blown out the turret of one by an IED and he actually owns one now (I believe it's a 2002 or so, either way it was used in Afghanistan and decommed after it was shot all to hell by small arms) and its a good chore vehicle for his small farm, he essentially uses it as a weird combination of a 1 ton truck and a SXS
Cool I want one now
DUDE! That's crazy! The literal exact same thing happened to my little brother when he was deployed in Syria a few years back. He was found unconscious after being blasted nearly 60 ft away from the detonation point. Looking at him now though, you would never realize he went through that. At this point I'm one hundred percent convinced he's just made entirely of flex tape.
@@runawaydragon7455 they sell for anywhere from 3-10k on GovPlanet depending on the condition there in
@@TholandThink same with my uncle, from what I understand the front left tire caught the IED which sent him flying and although he was conscious his leg was broken and he couldn't move so he played dead till the taliban left the was found a day later
Your uncle is a pog, they fucking suck and you feel like you're driving in a flimsy hunk of junk. Not to mention the battery is under the passenger seat. And if it's not secured properly your battle in the passenger seat is going to get shocked. It's a death trap if you ask me. The only thing I liked about it was it's torque. Still I'd rather drive around in an LMTV (Obviously not in the back of it).
"Remember, Safety first my soldiers"
-sun tzu, art of war
Still better than what we had before also even the commercial humvee is uncomfortable
The end is what gets me... no, an IED can punch through that shit so hard it flips the vehicle and shreds anything inside to hamburger. Thank God for the newer MRAPS.
Arent IED threats why they began uparmoring the humvee?
@@gurt.yuri3378 yes, but the humvee was never meant to have that much weight. When you start putting on more armor, the vehicle becomes heavier, and the humvee was never meant to fill the armored troop transport role. With all the extra weight, the humvee lost its ability to be fast and nimble, on top of the fact that the armor was never really going to save you from an IED anyways. Its great for moving equipment and its cheap, but we needed MRAPS a long time ago.
@@DynamicDurge Agreed we should have had MRAPs when it went fubar but my question was, arent ied and suicide bomb threats why they put mrap armor on humvees? In some cases the uparmoring isnt ied or blast shielding, but then they made the frag 1-5 kits to add to the uparmor. Isnt that when they began making mraps?
@@gurt.yuri3378 You can add as much armor to a Humvee all you want (Barring the weight limit of the Axels and chassis) it wont change the fact that when designing an IED that targets these vehicles the force of the explosion is directed upward in a localized spot, melts/punches through any armor you put on the bottom. not only that but the way the Humvee was designed makes it incredibly hard to armor the bottom to protect against this. The new MRAPS have a V shaped hull that forces the blast out from under the vehicle, hence why they are so much taller. As for the rest of the armor on a Humvee its best quality is stopping small arms fire and drawing RPG fire. Humvees were never meant to be as heavily armored as they have been in recent conflicts, they were a quick replacement for Jeeps.
@@thecomposer3279 That explains alot. Thanks man.
"All the things that make it suck might save them if attacked" I can from first hand experiance say. No. They do not help.
It’s like the battlefield mrap, the mine resistance part is a complete lie
@@FiftyCharacters Sure thing bud.
@@Totemparadox I assume it’s for game balancing, ive never actually served, though with tensions currently I might.
@@FiftyCharacters I totally missed the"battlefield" part in your commnet. Thought you were talking about real MRAP's. My bad XD.
Lol
Do 55 in one and it feels like going through the stratosphere
"AC often breaks down"
Land rover laughing in the corner
and it didn't even had ACs in the first place
I remember my dad took me to school in a humvee. It was so cool. And I also remember that one time I helped my dad fix one. So to me, the humvee is my favorite vehicle. Not because of the tactical stuff but the history I’ve had with it.
Humvee or HMMWV?
Jeep?
@@cpK054L same shit I'm pretty sure
Don't buy one unless you have the money to keep it maintained.
@@XM8A1 humvee is civilian trash
HMMWV is the military acronym for High Mobility Multi Wheeled Vehicle, which is still military trash.
So no. It's not the same
"The seats are uncomfortable" bro, take a ride on UAZ-469, its a f"cking hell
I googled it, man that thing has to be the ugliest automobile I've ever seen
@@LumboDumbo It's a commie vehicle, what do you expect? Our Humvees might be uncomfortable, but at least they look badass
@@Utonian21 What are you saying the thing looks more comfortable than humvee
@@bababoyyye no it doesn’t at all. Looks like it can be penetrated by 9mm from a Hipoint too.
@@Certified_Dude For war no to drive casually yes,
You know I love that vehicle in a way because he gave a capabilities that the little puny 4-cylinder somewhere another pukey puny horsepower providing four-wheel-drive pack mule had I was happy to be riding and put 27,000 miles on a brand new Humvee and less than 11 months and never ever broke down on me never ever needed one single replacement part and got six or 10 troops to their mission safely. I am one comment engineer proud to say that I drove a Humvee during my short-term. I have a loyalty to this vehicle. It was a large Step Above what we had at that time. It also proved to be an excellent tank Hunter with something as selling simple as a 90 mm Mike Mike. You should be doing it video on how the Humvee filled a operational gap that was wider than a tank ditch.
Honestly some of my best nights of sleep were in the driver seat of that thing .
Infographics: "113 degrees omg"
All Arizonans: "Those are rookie numbers... you need to pump those up"
We hit 133 on my last deployment... It was fun
113 Fahrenheit = 45 celsius
@@milk1472 Jesus don't remind me. Summer is just around the bend. I already miss October-January now
@@milk1472 The max I've experienced in AZ is around 123. 133 is being burned alive haha
@@SaganIII Cool
"Hummers are prone to roll over"
- Uhh what really?
Yes. Constant training on what to do if one does, as well. Most units even have a humvee rollover trainer as well
I was confused too, the center of gravity is designed to be much lower than normal vehicles-
@@johndoe8442 I mean I'm no expert, but yeah, I would imagine they were quite literally designed to avoid rollovers. Theyre wide and low, and weigh a lott, and that combination doesnt spell easy rollover to me..
The more they put on top, like gun turrets, the higher the center of gravity.
Hence - Rollovers.
Yeah that part was total BS. Anyone that’s been in one on mountainous terrain can confirm that it can tilt left or right to an insane degree before even coming close to rolling.
When he mentioned ac I was like wait what
Don’t forget the canvas topped ones that soak you with morning dew lol
ISIS: HOLD MY TOYOTA
You missed how unreliable they are. They always break down and never work properly. They also didnt have ac to my knowledge. They also get stuck very easily when weighted down like that
I loved being in a HMMWV.
They are not that prone to tipping over compared to other military vehicles. I was the a-driver as we drove up a mountain to set up a retrans station for Mojave Viper. Thing chugged along the entire mountain and didn’t feel like she was going to tip once.
They weren’t used outside the wire in Afghanistan or Iraq after 2010-ish.
They aren’t claustrophobic inside at all. If you’ve ever been one, you’ll realize it is somehow the widest vehicle that’s ever existed.
And they’re awfully good fun when a .50 cal or MK19 is on top.
I've literally never been in one that has working air conditioning or heating.
Had a teacher who used too work on these things. The engine is prone to overheating, which sends it into a derate. This sucks when in the middle of a fire fight
Proceeds to show the heavy ass up armors that get stuck everywhere
We had 1114s and 1151s and we never got them stuck so I don't know what you're talking about. Were you even infantry?
Light in war, heaviest on the streets.
I got familiar with their undercarriage. To clear customs there had to be no flora of fauna, so and bit of mud bigger than a thumbnail had to be removed.
That sucked, but every day we take up a collection and send someone to the commissary then we'd grill. The MREs we didn't have to eat because of the grilling we traded to some local firefighters in exchange for use of their pumper truck and fire hoses. That made washing heavy equipment down much easier lol
"Sergeee.... This humwee is uncomfeeeee!!!"
Bro.. Only the TC got foot room..
Lmao did u even ever serve?
LMAO
“Lightweight”
Ten to fifteen thousand pounds is lightweight. I don't think you realize what is considered light wheeled and heavy wheeled. I
"They're in a tactical vehicle, not a luxury car"
Hummer: Did I hear something?
Yeah some soldiers i’ve met have said they have terrible steering too. Plus the air conditioning fact is an understatement, i’ve heard most dont even have one and that’s especially bad when it’s a metal vehicle in the broad daylight we’re talking about
It was more than comfortable for me when a flash flood hit my town and I had to be evacuated by one
Fun fact some of them can still work if an EMP bomb was released
Yeah. But not the AC
That’s because they wouldn’t have Microchips in them
With no microchips they are essentially operating mechanically
“The humvee is lightweight”
The doors: Am I a joke to you?
Using the gun turret on top looks like a death sentence
“Lightweight” umm idk about that
Compared to an lmtv? Yeah, pretty lightweight.
It’d be an unstoppable machine if they gave us parts to use them 🙃
“Prone to rolling over”.. anything can roll with the right motivation. These? More motivation needed..
You ask a marine if they like Humvees they tell you no, but ask if they'd buy one for $5k and they'd say oh hell yeah
“Humvees are prone to rolling over” wait, whaaa???
If you're trying to climb a wall, sure, but that's an awfully wide wheel base to be "prone to rolling over."
Wait, how is “no space, uncomfortable chairs, broken air conditioner” gonna save their life? The only thing that seems like it will actually be useful for that end is the armor plating.
The Up Armor, is a better Alternative to the Unarmored ones which were either just a thin piece of vinyl or a moving thin soda can.
But that's not gonna save your azz from a IED though.
A driving armored coffin. Nice :)
Wait until the civilians hear about PMCSing it on Motorpool Mondays
Soo how are they prone to rolling over when their like 10 ft wide and heavy af
I'm guessing top heavy
Momentum...
It's because a part of the design was for high ground clearance so it's center of gravity is super high, the power train is all tucked up.
The Humvee is basically a bouncy castle with wheels especially the up armored ones.
It's top-heavy, if the: wheels, chassis, suspension, axel, drive shaft were heavier and perhaps alot more armor distribution it could balance out. Bear in mind some of them are lead-lined to withstand EMP attacks like a Faraday Cage for electrical components and still keep driving, meaning more weight and redundant systems.
Improvised Explosive Devices (I.E.D) aren't that difficult to make and are often used in terrorist cells to cut off choke points and cripple supply lines and these vehicles are prime targets. More IEDs means more damage to the underlining of exposure to vulnerable part of the truck's wheels and under belly. And such explosive force can (depending on where it detonates) can flip a truck.
Sustained damage from firefights, skirmishes, deployments and prolonged usage without regular maintenance and overbearing weight on the suspension from armor wears out the axels and warps the wheels thus causing the thing to topple over.
Just a bunch of way to think on.
Air conditioning sounds nice when you ride a tank, head sticking out getting all the wind, dust, dirt, and rain on your face
Every Humvee I was ever in was the sweat box and a death trap we had to add our own armor on especially right under the seats we used to weld pieces of doors and whatever scrap we could find underneath so that we can head at least a little more protection
Word of advice to new soldiers: if you’re gonna ride in a humvee, you’re gonna wana bring a seat cushion. Your ass will thank you.
Meanwhile the Chinese with their Knock off Humvees:
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Don’t forget the fact how often they break down. How (atleast with ours) the transmission isn’t rated for a vehicle as heavy as a humvee making their transmission easily broken . I just want a working ac and heater hahaha
Broke a couple axels too. All my friends rolled in low riders 😎
Imagine them actually using an actual luxury car like ambushing enemies territory with a mclaren, lambo, and bugatti
I was an Infantryman in 1988. I absolutely LOVED the HMMV. Was waaaaaay better than walking. Ours had no A/C. Never had so much fun in 4 wheeled vehicle, these things were amazing.
It's not an APC. Knocking it for not having armor is like knocking a missile for not have landing gear. Not designed for it.
Off road this thing is a BEAST.
It's sucks being in a military vehicle period. None are made for comfort.
It’s a good thing a bunch of these were donated.
“Donated” to Afghanistan
@@bigmonke7661 not even them
Thank the afghan military that crumbled as soon as we left. If the afghan people put up even 10% of the fight the Ukrainians are giving right now….
@@WimsicleStranger Why fight you own blood for the sake for foreign enemy invaders who destroyed your land for the past 20 years?
Do you think you where the heros and Taliban where the evil enemies? Those people where fighting for the freedom which is why the fought much more fiercely than Ukrainians until the war criminals left
General: "The Humvee is one of the most durable and impenetrable military vehicles"
Soldier: "Yeah, ISIS managed to stop our entire fleet"
General: "WHAT? HOW?"
Soldier: "They threw boards with nails sticking out of them under the tires"
ISIS fell off though.
@@krypticunlimited6925 Taliban didn't though.
@@hakimdiwan5101 chadiban
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that tin can can protect from RPGs.
wow 40 years old now. remember them in fort lewis when we came down from bc for battle school
The armor on humvees still doesn't protect it from IEDs.
Actually a good general amount of humvees had under plates etc etc
@@fritzdaddy-135mmgetstagger4 unfortunately a good amount of them also didn't have them
There's a dutch company who 'rebuilds' humvees for the dutch special forces. They are going to the special forces en they ask them what,how en where do you want your stuff etc
May I know the name?
I have this on GTA and it’s my favorite. Can withstand RPG blasts and everything
If you hit the slightest of bumps you'll be sent into the roof like you're in the back of the bus on a school field trip
Another ignorant comment by someone idiot that CLEARLY has never ridden in a humvee 🤦♂️🫵🤡
"lightweight"
I presume he meant "... compared to an Abrams." 😃
Ten to fifteen thousand pounds is lightweight. I don't think you realize what is considered light wheeled and heavy wheeled.
@@NinjaSushi2 bro chill
Don't get too technical.
Take it as a joke
@@benchmarkbananas5607 jai shree ram
First time I hear the humvee called light weight....
In comparison to a battle tank, everything is lightweight 😂
I was in the Army from 88-92, and I never saw a Humvee with AC! We were lucky if the heater worked in freezing winter conditions! Each person pretty much got their little small corner of the vehicle and not much more.
Hummers: roast you without aircon but not let the enemy touch you!