The Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV

Re:The Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV by valarauca1 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @10:31AM (#10129627)

Yes, annd the USArmy invested in 2010 on multi-million dollar fuel efficiency testing center. Starting around 2008 there was a big internal push to make military vehicles more fuel efficient.

I highly doubt the new engine. Most USArmy engines are very old (typically 60's era Diesel) due to the object simplicity (and fuel diversity) [1]. Anyone Joe-Blow can be trained to fix these, and fixes are faster under fire.

Most the fuel savings from from transmissions/cooling systems. Which are modular so they can be upgraded, and simply replaced on failure.

Source: Contracted to TARDEC research 2010-2013

[1] I'm wrong here. L-ATV uses a Duramax V8 circa 99-01 GM engine. Which is ~30 years newer then other engines used.

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Re:The Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV by JoeAltmaier on Thursday August 27, 2015 @10:38AM (#10129676)

Talk about too little, too late. The largest consumption of fuel in the middle east wars was ... for air-conditioning tents(!) Vehicles come in far behind.

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Re:The Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV by masklinn on Thursday August 27, 2015 @10:41AM (#10129691)

Vehicle is still a good thing, large on-base generators are easier to resupply than vehicles out in the field.

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Re:The Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV by valarauca1 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @10:41AM (#10129692)

>Talk about too little, too late.

Learning a lession and implementing a fix within ~5 years of that issue being raised is fairly quick for the USGov all things considered.

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