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Cat M105 DEUCE a combat dozer that moves 6x as fast as a D5
What do you get when you throw some armor on a D5 and make it capable of speeds up to 30 miles per hour? You get a DEUCE. The M105 Deployable Universal Combat Earthmover (DEUCE) was first produced by Caterpillar in 1999 under contract with the U.S. Army, according to a page at Military-Today.com. A […]
September 28, 2017
Construction Equipment
PHOTOS: Inside and out JCB’s half truck, half backhoe HMEE Army machine, hot off the assembly line
No. 1 Story in 2015 « No. 2 No. 15 »  [imagebrowser id=228] The typical jobsite has little need for a backhoe with a top-speed of 60 miles per hour. But the battlefields soldiers in the U.S. Army work day-in and day-out aren’t the typical jobsite. In addition to the run-of-the-mill digging jobs, soliders need […]
April 9, 2015
Construction Equipment
Need a military-spec’d wheel loader or dozer? New GovPlanet site offers military rolling stock starting in November
Rolling stock coming out of U.S. military inventories will start selling in November on GovPlanet, a subsidiary of online heavy equipment and truck marketplace IronPlanet. Awarded a U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract in July, IronPlanet will use its new online auction site to dispose of between $50 to 70 million government surplus rolling stock assets. […]
September 30, 2014
Construction Equipment
U.S. Army orders $50 million worth of HMEE high-speed backhoes from JCB
The group responsible for the largest order in JCB’s history just asked the British heavy equipment maker to re-up its supply of high-speed backhoes. The U.S. Army has ordered $50 million worth of High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEE) from JCB. These 17.5-ton backhoes are capable of reaching speeds up to 60 miles per hour thanks to […]
June 24, 2014
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