HUMMVEE front wheel skirts (armored)...
 

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...psae3cfc62.jpg

Notice the rear wheel skirts, too? ;)

guess it's still an ecomod, theirs help maintain rolling resistance

That ain't coroplast.
They make electoral signs out of 1/4" steel over there :confused:

If your wind tunnel used shrapnel instead of smoke, that would be a good design.

lol :)

Pretty sure those are the same wheel skirts I put on Black Widow

Needs more airdam.

And a scary clown face.

Notice the handles to pull them off to check the oil. :cool:
forward opening hood finder to finder.:confused:

Doesn't look like they're worried too much about that with all the sandbags and whatnot on the hood.

The sandbags are blocking the upper grille. I'd skip any grille block over there, personally.

Actually, I saw many grill blocks in Afghanistan--cloth. I guess that when you have more dust than oxygen in the air, you need a filter.

Needs more Cowbell!!

No, they'll hear you coming!

1/4" plate on standoffs would be lighter more airo than 4 30- 50lbs sand bags also would breeath better
as for filter any one who has commuted throw bug country knows how plugged up a radiator can get with small particulate bug bodies (over there sand)

Then agen they are sandbags sooo not going to stop the sand packen jmo

Skirts and spats all in one swell foop!

I wonder if kevlar skirts would get the job done in similar fashion without adding so much weight. I remember hearing about lots of breakdowns from field armoring overloading the suspensions.

Much of the armor on trucks is aluminum, too, so there are plenty of better options than steel.

'field expedient'

Hilbilly armor made the suspensions cry, but it was the powertrains that really suffered.

That much added weight (in the OP) to protect... tires? Really- adding armor made people think of those puny little trucks as tanks. The old Toyota pickup with a machine gun mounted on a post in the back is a much better weapons platform in that environment because you can't armor a vehicle enough to matter and still call it a vehicle.

Charlie, we drove Hili (Plural of Hilux? :) ) on-post (left-hand-drive!), but all of the Afghan National Army that I saw drove Rangers.

As for putting armor over tires, I guess they could not afford bullet-resistant tires.

When I first deployed, they told us to not raise the cabin on our MTVs, the hydraulics could not support the added weight of the armor.

No problem.

We have Sergeants insisting that we do not properly PMCS (inspect) our trucks here unless we raise the cabin.

That is not part of the standard PMCS. Also, even though I try to understand cars, you show me an engine, and I will say "Yup! That is an engine!" I cannot necessarily recognize a problem.