From: Richard Lathrop (lathrrs@snip.net)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 07:20:31 PDT
>From an ICRC newsletter
ICRC Provides Army with Repowered HMMWVs
ICRC has partnered with the National Automotive Center (NAC) to develop improvements for the current High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) powertrain. Four prototype systems were recently installed in baseline HMMWVs.
The baseline HMMWV is powered by a 150-horsepower 8-cylinder engine. The prototypes were upgraded to a 230-horsepower, 6-cylinder engine. The new engine improves acceleration and top speed. One of the intentions of the engine upgrade is to allow more heavily armored HMMWVs to perform as well as, or better than their conventional counterparts.
The goal of the program is to transition solutions into future production and modernization of the HMMWV fleet. The current demonstration shows the ability to improve performance by packaging an off-the-shelf engine in the current system without major modifications.
The vehicles were recently demonstrated at the winter AUSA symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Ride-and-drives allowed customers to observe the performance improvements of each prototype vehicle. The users were excited with the performance improvements of the vehicles.
ICRC is working with the NAC to transition the new powertrain efforts to the TACOM Program Executive Officer (PEO) for production implementation in 2005.
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