WAUSAU, Wis. — A team of mechanical engineers funded by the Pentagon has an idea for saving the lives of troops in Iraq: An airless tire that won’t go flat if shot or hit by shrapnel from a roadside ...

A 10-week strike of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. workers is creating a shortage of Humvee tires used by the military overseas, according to the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

Phillip Carter, who attends UCLA Law School, was a captain in the Army's military police from 1997 to 2001. When I was a military police platoon leader, I wanted to buy spare tires for all seven of my ...

The military establishment's ever increasing reliance on technology and whiz-bang gadgetry impacts us as consumers, investors, taxpayers and ultimately as the defended. Our mission here is to bring ...

AKRON (Nov. 2, 2007) — Goodyear has gained a new U.S. military tire fitment for all High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles (Humvees). The company's Wrangler MT/R Military Edition tire received ...

A Fort Worth company is putting up surplus items for auction, including trailers, rigs, Humvee tires and Detroit engines. The availability of Humvee tires is a first for the auction. "Government ...

BAGHDAD- Seven Soldiers of Company A, 120th Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, grunt and moan as they lift humvee shock springs and tires to build strength and endurance for ...

Although there is no funding in the Army budget for a Humvee upgrade, Northrop Grumman officials on Tuesday presented an upgrade to the military workhorse that would lighten the truck and extend its ...