The M151A2 cut down for the 9th Infantry Division’s motorised experiments and the Marines in the 1980s: an open frame with a roll cage, a mounted TOW, Mk 19 or M2 machine gun and no doors or windscreen, the forerunner of the Humvee-based and Chenowth fast attack vehicles.
BASE VEHICLEM151 MUTTBUILT BYAM General, US Army and Marine Corps workshopsIN SERVICE1981–90OPERATED INUnited StatesPRODUCTIONA few hundredLAYOUT4 wheels · 85″
The record
The Army’s High Technology Test Bed at Fort Lewis and the Marines converted M151A2s into fast attack vehicles in the early 1980s with roll cages, weapons mounts and stripped bodies; the Chenowth FAV of 1982 and later the Humvee took the role.
Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.
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