The Pentagon is on a crash course to buy thousands of larger and better designed troop-carrying vehicles in hopes of decreasing the mounting death toll from roadside bombs in Iraq. The Marine Corps ...

WASHINGTON -- Military officials said Thursday they were working hard to upgrade the armor on Army vehicles in Iraq, a day after a soldier pressed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on the subject.

The job of protecting U.S. troops in Iraq from land mines, roadside bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire is largely falling on factory workers back home. At the U.S. Army's Rock Island ...

An armored Humvee, the M1114, first appeared in 1993 but the Army initially ordered a few, apparently not envisioning post-Cold War conflicts and peacekeeping missions such as Somalia, Kosovo, Haiti ...

TIKRIT, Iraq -- Soldiers exposed to Iraq's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their ...

HUMVEE CONTRACT: Armor Holdings Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has received a $45.5 million contract to provide the U.S. and Iraqi militaries with additional M1114 up-armored Humvees, the company said ...

As insurgents continue to use improvised bombs to attack U.S. military vehicles in Iraq, officials are growing increasingly concerned that the lack of heavy armored vehicles is putting U.S. forces at ...

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps will replace all its up-armored Humvees in Iraq with Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles by 2009 if Congress approves additional money for the equipment, ...