
Oshkosh Defense is expanding the mission capabilities of the Army's Humvee replacement, boosting the armored truck's lethality with two new heavily armed variants.The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is designed to take over many of the mission roles of the legacy Humvee. The Army initially planned to purchase about 50,000 of the bomb-resistant trucks to perform troop transport and command-and-control.A primary requirement for JLTV was that Oshkosh Defense build in power and payload margin so the vehicle could accept new…