The 21-year-old gunner was standing atop the turret of a Humvee called Frankenstein's Monster when a bomb exploded on the ground beside him, sending a wave of sizzling shrapnel and ball bearings ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. --Chances are, if a warfighter has deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, they are familiar with the Objective Gunner Protection Kit, or OGPK. With more than 45,000 of these ...

Martin Dempsey, the Army general who's now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was a division commander when he got to Baghdad in 2003 and climbed into a Humvee for his first trip off base.

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – In less than 80 days, the improved protective turret prototype on this Humvee was taken from sketched concept to hard-core assembly. The igloo-shaped ...

Mero told a court of inquiry he was “100% certain” that small-arms fire struck the gunner’s turret shield on the convoy’s second Humvee, which was targeted by the car bomber.

Military Photo: Humvee Prototype Archives. In less than 80 days, the turret prototype on this Humvee was taken from sketched concept to hard-core assembly. The igloo-shaped structure is designed to ...

Greenwood realizes the Humvee turret-gunner market is finite, but with thousands of vehicles in Iraq waiting to be outfitted, a lot of money can be made, he said.

Equipment like the reinforced steel and bullet-proof glass encasing the gunner's turret atop of humvee's, which saved the life of a U.S. solider during a November 2007 mission to deliver supplies ...

With the Humvee’s .50 caliber down, it is possible that the other Ukrainians’ first reaction was to hand the gunner working weapons, said Bunn, who also noted he has not seen the type of ...