AM General receives new HMMWV orders
AM General has received new High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) orders worth $550 million for vehicles and parts, the company announced on 28 September.
The vehicles will be delivered to Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Jordan, Slovenia, Bahrain, Columbia, Bosnia and Kenya.
The HMMWVs provided under these new orders will include protected weapons carriers, cargo transporters and ambulances.
These new delivery orders are part of the recently announced $2.2 billion, five-year contract to manufacture up to 11,560 new HMMWVs for foreign military sale agreements.
The HMMWV is a lightweight, highly mobile, four-wheel-drive tactical vehicle that carries a wide variety of hardware ranging from machine guns to tube-launched, optically tracked, wire command-guided anti-tank missile launchers.
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