M1025 Humvee tactical vehicle with ZPU-4 14.5mm anti-aircraft gun used by Chad National Army during Chad-Libyan war, late 1980s period.

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Yummy_Crayons91@reddit

No way this is the 1980s. Humvees were still cutting edge and just being fielded by the US in the 1980s. For a portion of the Chad/Libyan war Humvees weren't even in service.

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Baud_Olofsson@reddit

Image copyright 1990.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rebel-soldiers-with-the-forces-armees-nationales-chadiennes-news-photo/535981392

Aftermath Following Idriss Deby's Rebellion
Rebel soldiers with the Forces Armees Nationales Chadiennes (FANT), or National Army of Chad, capture a United States Army military jeep near the Sudanese frontier. Lead by Chadian Chief of Staff Idriss Deby, the FANT rebellion seized power from head of state Hissen Habre in a French- and Libyan-backed military coup. Deby later won the first multi-party Chadian presidential vote in 1996. (Photo by © Patrick Robert/Sygma/CORBIS/Sygma via Getty Images)

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DerringerOfficial@reddit

Sure that this wasn’t in one of the other decades when Libya has been at war?

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Confident_Row1447@reddit

How the fudge did they get Humvees before Arnold?