Sayfullah
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Humvees offer no small arms protection at all, let alone IED protection.
They were never made to be armored trucks, up-armored ones provide some protection against small arms only where the armor coverage is present.
But these machines are also old, slow and have tons of mechanical and reliability issues that only countries with proper supply lines set up for them can deal with, something us with no prior use and no direct sales from the US do not have. I agree that anything is better than a hilux, but even if they’re cheap. That money is better spent elsewhere, hopefully buying proper Armored vehicles for the forces.
Less, the normal Humvee has Absolutely no armor at all, people think it was designed to be armored or something. The body is made out of fiberglass to save weight. It’s durable yes, but won’t stop a bullet.
The ones Taliban have seem to be well armoured they can stop small arms pretty easily and even rpg‘s. But yeah there might be supply line issues since we bought them from Taliban not usa