Gun truck - Wikipedia
A gun truck is an armored vehicle with one or more crew-served weapons, typically based on a military truck. Gun trucks often have improvised vehicle armor, such as scrap metal, concrete, gravel, or sandbags, which is added to a heavy truck.
The Gun Trucks of Vietnam: How US soldiers transformed cargo vehicles ...
Oct 30, 2020 · Truck drivers in Vietnam realized if they were going to return home alive, they needed to upgrade their firepower. The soldiers of the 8th Transport Group who drove in vehicle convoys took readily available deuce-and-a-half cargo trucks and added twin M60 machine guns to create makeshift gun trucks.
M54 Gun Truck: The Savior of the Support Convoy - HistoryNet
Aug 16, 2022 · The Army responded by changing its convoy tactics and creating gun trucks, which innovative GIs transformed with ad hoc changes into even better combat vehicles. The M54 5-ton gun truck was the most common transport vehicle converted.
Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck - Wikipedia
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) is an eight-wheel drive, diesel-powered, 10-short-ton (9,100 kg) tactical truck. [2] The M977 HEMTT first entered service in 1982 with the United States Army as a replacement for the M520 Goer, and since that date has remained in production for the U.S. Army and other nations.
When the Army went Mad Max: Vietnam gun trucks (16 PHOTOS)
Jul 31, 2015 · A largely forgotten part of the war in South East Asia was the one fought by the U.S. Army's gun trucks as part of convoy operations through the heart of enemy territory.
The Unknown History of 'Gun Trucks of Vietnam' - Military.com
Nov 9, 2018 · The program tells the history of the U.S. Army gun truckers, innovative young men who were assigned trucks that were woefully under-equipped for protecting vital convoys. They scrounged...
Hard Ride in a Hard War - HistoryNet
Jul 10, 2017 · While traveling through ambush-prone areas, a gun jeep or gun truck often scouted up to 500 yards ahead of the convoy looking for mines, obstacles and enemy personnel. Once detected, mines were destroyed by .50-caliber machine gun fire while the truck was on the move.
Platoons to get counter-drone gear in two US Army divisions
Oct 11, 2023 · The JCO first tested Northrop Grumman’s Agnostic Gun Truck, or AGT, in a shoot-off in January in response to an urgent request from the Pentagon to field a weapon good against...
List of currently active United States military land vehicles
The following is a list of active United States military land vehicles grouped by type of land vehicle.
How U.S. Soldiers Built Their Own Deadly Gun Trucks
NARRATOR: Innovative gun truck soldiers transform standard issue vehicles into heavily armored weapons of war. Now the trucks need a badass look to match. They paint their trucks jet black, saying goodbye to the Army's standard issue green.