Modified US Army HMMWV with .50 cal gun turret from the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom hillbilly armor and improvised gun truck modifications 2003-2005

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Early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom hillbilly armor and gun truck mods. Modified HMMWV with .50 cal gun turret'We made a few of this...' The War Murals Project via Jose R. Rodriguez

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garbotheanonymous@reddit

Does the US have something between this and those v hull hulks?

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Cheap_Interaction133@reddit

We currently have the JLTV that sits between the humvee and an MRAP. Back then though they didn't even have MRAPs.

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Pretty cool but very tall. Still mad to me that they used the updated version of a jeep to fill the role of properly armoured cars or light tanks. I get Bradleys are expensive and expensive to run, but surely pretty much any armoured car from ww2 would've been better in the role.

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Illustrious-Sky-4631@reddit

They realized their fuck up right after which is what led to the increased push for Mrap products and newer more modified Humvees

Who would have thoughts RPG /snipers/IEDs would eat humvees and jeeps up

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Joseph9877@reddit

Right? Like they'd have known from ww2 that non armoured vehicles suck in front line roles, nevermind Korea and nam backing that up.

Thing is, mraps are so large now they're basically a bus, and even the small ones that are built for 4 or 5 guys are so huge compared to dedicated armoured cars, they're big targets to miss and don't fill the scouting role well.

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wilderad@reddit

Up armor level 5 and rollover training is all you need. S/

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Illustrious-Sky-4631@reddit

Mrap with all their disadvantage proved to be a quick quite effective solution

The US for some reason didn't except much resistance from ground after overthrowing the local governments and destroying whatever security/control systems the locals used to have

I kid you not they were convinced that things will just....fix itself shortly after the invasion

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mrizzerdly@reddit

Well why would there be resistance after releasing the (ex) military into the wild. /s

That was the moment I knew that it was going to be a forever war.

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Cleanbriefs@reddit

Who knew leaving large stockpiles of bombs would allow radicals to build IED’s? also because ww2 didn’t have cellphones cheaply available for use as remote detonators…

My favorite quote about ninjas still applies. Ninjas were good with the weapons they had available at the time. Bring a ninja into the presente and they will use whatever weapons are best in this timeline, they would not be using swords to fight a gun battle!

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