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A Humvee

The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV; colloquial: Humvee) is a American military SUV produced by AM General. The Hummer is a civilian version of the Humvee.

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    Humvee interior

  • Marine humvee with bolt-on armor x2

    A U.S. Marine Corps M1123 HMMWV in 2004, equipped with a bolt-on MAK armor kit.

  • Humvee equipped with four snow treads

    At the Bridgeport, California Mountain Warfare Training Center in March 1997, a test HMMWV drives through the snow, equipped with Mattracks treads.

  • SAM-HMMWV

    A HMMWV equipped with SLAMRAAM surface-to-air missiles, on display at the Paris Air Show in June 2007.

  • Crows-M153CommonRemotelyOperatedWeaponStationOnHumvee

    Soldiers of 3rd BCT/ 25th ID, use an M153 CROWS atop an M1115A1 HMMWV at the Battle Area Complex, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, 2017.

  • USAFHMMWV

    A U.S. Air Force airman in Southwest Asia stands in the ring mount of a FRAG 6-reinforced HMMWV, 2010

  • US Navy 111114-N-KA046-134 A Humvee launches from a landing craft utility (LCU) assigned to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LS

    Humvee fording

  • Hmmwv-036

    A U.S. Army HMMWV firing a BGM-71 TOW missile.

  • AM General M998 FMO 12.06.22 JM (1)

    M998 registered as a historical vehicle in Warendorf

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    HMMWV with a Phoenix satellite communications dish

  • USMCAmbulance

    A U.S. military M997 ambulance, emblazoned with the Red Cross.

  • US Navy 100717-N-0683T-389 U.S. Navy SEALs lay down covering fire as part of an extraction exercise during a capabilities demonstration at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Va

    Advanced up-armored HMMWV including armored gun turret

  • M1114 cruising by mrkoww

    An M1114 with a Kevlar Wrapped Turret returns from a Combat Logistics Patrol (CLP) mission to CAMP Adder

  • M1165a1 (22057048871)

    M1165A1, Aviation Nation 2014 US Air Show - Nellis AFB, Las Vegas

  • Hybrid Humvee

    An M1113 Humvee chassis-mounted XM1124 Hybrid-Electric diesel-series hybrid-powered HMMWV, September 2009

  • Eastwind EQ2050 - 4

    A Dongfeng Mengshi (lit. "Eastwind Warrior") EQ2050 (licensed-built of the HMMWV) at China's People's Revolution Military Museum in August 2007, during the 'Our Troops towards the Sky' exhibition.

  • Greek-hummer

    Greek Army M1114GR HMMWV with the ability to mount a 9M133 Kornet on top, April 2007.

  • Pozegnanie V zmiany PKW Irak 06

    Polish Army M1043A2 HMMWV, July 2005.

  • USMC-09503

    Marine Corps inspected SCTV Humvee, 2010

  • US Navy 091004-M-9443M-134 Members of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines deliver family food packs

    U.S. Marine Corps HMMWVs in the Philippines deliver food packs after Typhoon Ketsana, 2009.

  • AGM-114HellfireHMMWV

    A HMMWV firing an AGM-114 Hellfire missile.

  • M1114CLB5HMMWVPUSHOIF

    U.S. Marines pushing an M1114 HMMWV during a 'Humvee Push' competition, in 2016.

  • Humvee maintenance

    Humvee maintenance with engine exposed by Czech Army in Afghanistan

  • Hummer TOW español

    A Spanish Navy Marines M-966 equipped with BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile.

  • Mars Institute Humvee

    The Mars Institute's Moon-1 HMMWV Rover waits for C-130 airlift at Cambridge Bay, Canada in 2009.

  • Bahrain army in a village

    Bahraini Army in the 2010s

  • Taliban Humvee in Kabul, August 2021 (cropped)

    A Humvee captured by the Taliban in 2021

See also

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