Military Oshkoshes

Oshkosh became the US forces’ tactical-truck supplier through the M911 transporter of 1976 and the HEMTT of 1982, and its registry-scale vehicles followed: the MTVR replaced the Marines’ five-tonners from 2001 and went to Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan with armoured cabs; the FMTV rebuy of 2009 put the Army’s 2.5- and 5-ton trucks in Oshkosh’s hands; and the M-ATV of 2009, ordered for Afghanistan’s roads, was built at 1,000 a month and served to 2014 with about 7,000 retained.

The JLTV replaced the armoured Humvee in the Army and Marine Corps from 2016 and became the standard light protected vehicle of the Baltic and Balkan NATO members from 2021; Oshkosh’s production ended in 2025 with the A2 passing to AM General and the Army’s cancellation of further buys.