The Independent reports that the US Army and Chicago manufacturer International Truck and Engine Corporation are jointly developing a replacement for the venerable Humvee troop transporter, from which the Hummer was derived.
Last week, prototypes of the so-called “Smart Truck 3” were displayed at a trade show in Las Vegas. The commercial version will not have the electronics designed to detect anthrax, the Kevlar armouring on the underside, the night-vision cameras and the 25-inch LCD touch-screen computer monitors, but at 8000 pounds, the vehicle will be just as large.
