 A Gun Truck of the type used in Iraq, based on an M939 five-ton truck A gun truck is an improvised military armoured vehicle, based on a conventional cargo truck that is able to carry a large weight of weapons and armour. They have poor off-road performance so have mainly been used by regular armies to escort military convoys in regions subject to ambush by guerrilla forces. Image File history File links Gun_Truck. ...
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The M939 series 5-ton 6x6 truck is a family of United States Army logistical transportation Trucks which was designed in the late 1980s and has been in service through the current day. ...
The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer truck prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. ...
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Vietnam War During the Vietnam war, United States Army supply convoys from coastal ports to inland locations came under increasingly effective attack by Vietcong forces. As a response, the Army's 8th Transportation Group, headquartered at Qui Nhon fitted two and a half-ton trucks with sand bags and pairs of M60 machine guns to act as convoy escorts. The crew consisted of a driver, two gunners and a non-commissioned officer. Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...
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A Viet Cong soldier, heavily guarded, awaits interrogation following capture in the attacks on Saigon during the festive Tet holiday period of 1968. ...
Qui Nhon is a coastal city in the centre of Vietnam. ...
The M60 (formally the United States Machine Gun, Caliber 7. ...
A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), also known as an NCO or noncom, is a non-commissioned member of an armed force who has been given authority by a commissioned officer. ...
The two and a half-ton trucks soon proved inadequate and were replaced with five-ton trucks. Steel plate replaced sand bags and the trucks were equipped with heavier weapons such as .50 caliber machine guns, miniguns and grenade launchers in addition to M60 machine guns. As these heavy weapons were not issued to transportation units, they were often salvaged from shot-down helicopters. This article is about the . ...
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A grenade launcher is weapon that fires or launches a grenade to longer distances than a soldier could throw by hand. ...
The improvised nature of the trucks meant they varied considerably in appearance. They were given colourful nicknames such as "The Untouchable," "Satisfaction," "Iron Butterfly" or "Pandemonium" that were often painted on the sides in large letters. An estimated 300 to 400 gun trucks were deployed during the war.
With the end of the Vietnam war, the need for such vehicles disappeared and most were either scrapped or returned to cargo carrying. One truck, "Eve of Destruction," has been restored and is on display at the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Fort Eustis is a military base facility of the United States military located in Newport News, Virginia. ...
Iraq War The conditions of the Iraq War have led to the re-invention of the gun truck. M939 Trucks were initially equipped with improvised 'Hillbilly armor'. These have since been replaced with trucks equipped with purpose-designed armour kits. Occupation zones in Iraq as of September 2003 The post-invasion period in Iraq followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States, which overthrew the Baath Party government of Saddam Hussein. ...
The M939 series 5-ton 6x6 truck is a family of United States Army logistical transportation Trucks which was designed in the late 1980s and has been in service through the current day. ...
Hillbilly armor is improvised armour for humvees made by attaching scrap metal. ...
They have seen less use than in Vietnam. A possible reason is that roadside bombs are the major threat to road convoys of Iraq Coalition forces, not small-arms ambushes by the local guerillas as was the case in Vietnam. IED is also a common abbreviation for the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary by Julius Pokorny. ...
The Multinational force in Iraq, also known as the Coalition, are the nations whose governments have military personnel in Iraq. ...
Iraqi militants celebrating orders being given to the surrounding Coalition forces to stand down, Fallujah, May 1 2004. ...
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