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Army

AM General Sees Humvee Right-Hand Drive Market, As Left-Hand Drive Suffers Budget Blow

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

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Far from the U.S. defense budget battles in Washington, D.C., Humvee-maker AM General unveiled a right-hand drive variant of the vehicle at the Singapore Air Show. In the United States, the Army is calling for the end of a Humvee Recap Modernized Expanded Capacity Vehicle program to save funds as part of the Defense Department effort to lower the deficit. However, in the overseas contingency operations budget, $271 million would go to modernize 2,128 vehicles returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.…

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