Re: [MV] hummer, H2 number two only in design age

From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 09:29:54 PDT


Hi Ryan,

>While I understand the reason for using the Unimog, why doesn't the
>US military use it more than as a specialized tractor? It would have
>filled some of the requirements for FMTV admirably and had parts
>availability the world over.

Perhaps national pride plays some role here. But I suspect the larger
reason is that the Mog is being phased out in favor of various different
vehicles. I am not up on what all this is, only knowing that France,
Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands? and Austria? have been purging their
forces of Mogs for years due to age, changing requirements, etc.

Rich... 406! Dang it, I knew that :-) My knowledge of Mogs is limited
to some research I did when I chose to by a Pinzgauer. I couldn't
remember if the "shorty" was the 404 or 406. Thanks for the correction.

Steve



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