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MILITARY TRUCKS * USA: Oshkosh's - ISIS' Toyotas
* Wiscosin - Military trucks challenge for huge army contract
Oshkosh, WIS,USA -Bloomberg/The Telegraph (UK), by Leon Siciliano -16 Sep 2014: -- Three suppliers of military trucks are battling it out for a £16.6 bn contract with the US army... A $27 bn (approximately £16.6 bn) contract will be awarded to a military vehicle contractor next summer to replace the Humvee... Among the contestants is Oshkosh, the largest supplier of military trucks in the United States of A., in 2013... Bloomberg travelled to their headquarters in Oshkosh, Wisconsin to see the three trials every truck has to pass before the military will buy them...
* Syria - ISIS drives Texas-made Toyota Trucks apparently modified for U.S. Special Forces
-- “We’ve got Iraqi army battalions driving around in Toyota trucks,” General McCaffrey, USA Army, 2007... Military Toyota: "So, the obvious question is, why ship brand new Tacomas all the way from the United States, when Middle East, Europe and Asia is full of Hilux trucks, which include a heavier duty frame, suspension and diesel engines. The answer is that was simply easier for the Special Forces to buy them from local U.S. dealers, outfit them as they needed and ship them over” ... The now iconic white Toyota trucks we see ISIS driving around look scarily familiar to ones purchased here in the states and outfitted by special forces which puts to rest the notion that ISIS simply ran up to a dealership in Iraq and made off with 30 or so vehicles...
They aren’t even SOLD in Iraq and certainly not with these modifications. At least not as an entire fleet... Personally, I seriously doubt these ragtag misfits could take one special forces ranger’s personal truck from a Piggly Wiggly parking lot, much less a whole fleet of them in a combat zone. Very odd indeed, ain’t it?...
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