[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Humvee vs Land Mine (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/16/2004 8:33:56 AM EDT
My roommate was in this humvee yesterday when it hit a land mine in central Iraq. He received minor injuries to his head and leg. The gunner was blown completely out of the turret and the passenger in the front seat lost one leg and may loose the other. The dash board is completely destroyed along with half the engine block.   How was your day? Edited with more pictures. |
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Tango is that one of the reinforced ones or just a regular Humvee? I just some from Afghanistan and those were built up pretty well with reinforcement everywhere. Looks like there wasnt much penetration into the cabin and explains why they survived. Best wishes to the guys that were injured. |
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It was an up-armored humvee. |
That'll buff right out.  It is the pictures like THIS that the media should be focused on. And it burns me that they never seem to get around to showing what our troops are enduring to insure our freedom. Any place we can send well wishes to the soldiers from that humvee? TRG |
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This was Army guys and the mine was in a pothole on a paved road. The mine took off the frame rail and the entire right front suspension. The driver and gunner have minor injuries and will be ok in a week or so. My roommate is our commo NCO. We call him LBG (Little Brown Guy). He's from Puerto Rico. |
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Wow! That one took a big hit. But it still has the rear wheels on it. My son's friend had 4 HUMVEE's blown out from under him last summer in 4 months in Falluja. He had one that lost all 4 wheels and the entire front end in front of the windshield. And he came home without a scratch. THANK GOD! And we'll continue to pray for all of our troops in that vast wasteland. |
Yeah, let's all hope he got the leg insurance package.  I pray for all these guys every day. TC, it is beyond my ability to express how much we all appreciate your sacrifice and how indebted we are as a nation to you. Stay safe and get the bastards! |
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So why don't we just spend a few billion and build like maybe 2000 or so ultra-reinforced models that can take the worlds biggest land mine and keep right on rolling? A mans legs are worth a few billon dollars. And while we are at it, why don't we just have Iraqi prisoners jog along in front about 50 yards and just set of the mines. Maybe then we won't need the extra armor? |
You can't really be this dumb, can you? It takes YEARS, often decades, to get a new vehicle into service, and at best, you'd have to have a huge vehicle like the Stryker in order to support so much weight. Strykers certainly have their use, but they aren't nearly as fast as a Humvee nor can they get in and out of places like a Humvee can. We simply can't put everyone in tanks; no one could get their work done. And as for using Iraqi "human shields", most vehicle mines are either set of by magnetic means, or by a LOT of weight, more than a person walking on it would cause. And likely, a person would have walked over a pothole, right? -Troy |
You sure that was a land mine and not an IED? That's a hell of a lot of damage to an uparmored HMMWV. My guess would be a 155mm IED .... |
| Nope this was a land mine. The vehicles we have that have been hit by IEDs have extensive damage on the side of the vehicle. This blast blew strait up into the suspension and firewall off the vehicle. Crater analysis was also conducted and the determination was a land mine. The road this took place on is known for land mines. |
Thanks for the info. Spent two tours over there and never saw a landmine cause damage that extensive. Prayers for the injured... |
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I realise that there's probably a general standard to the bunkers, but might I ask where that photo was taken? It's nice to be a tank. We had a report of someone laying a mine on the road, so we drove up and down it a few times to see if anything blew up... Nothing happened, so safe to dismount! NTM |
good thing too Ive seen that happen to a regular soft top and soft door it was 10 times worse |
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The bunker is a standard type used by the Iraqi military on their air bases. We don't use them except for storage. I found a land mine outside one of our gate entrances that was only 6" in diameter. The one that the humvee hit was estimated to be much larger. I also have not seen an IED blow a humvee airborne and flip it 180 degrees. |