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Oshkosh Expands Mission Roles, Lethality Of JLTV

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Oshkosh Expands Mission Roles, Lethality Of JLTV
JLTV Utility vehicle on display (middle photo) is equipped with the Boeing Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) Launcher including a M3P .50 cal machine gun, M299 launcher with four Longbow Hellfire missiles, sensor suite, and a communications suite including a Thales VRC-111.

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…

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