From Frontline Photos:
Army Spc. Anthony Jorgensen, 24, of Philadelphia, mans the turret of a Humvee called Frankenstein’s Monster that has been modified with “Pope Glass” around the turret. Soldiers have welded the bulletproof glass, meant for Humvee front windshields, onto the turrets on dozens of Humvees in insurgent-infested Ramadi, Iraq.
Incidentally, has anyone heard anything at all about that Nanotech Armor For HMMWV MO posted on in November of 2003? It’s called the “Save A Gunner” (SAG) Turret. If anyone knows anything, pass it on.
UPDATE: Pic of another ‘Frankensteined’ Humvee below
A reader tips us off to this:
From Army.mil.
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Can I lure you into the mindless land of useless memes? Come and play this one! I came up with it, ain’t I clever.
Here’s another pic. http://www4.army.mil/OCPA/uploads/large/CSA-2006-02-06-100619.jpg
Is it just me, or is that turret sporting both a Mk19 and an M240?
Second pic is also a second vehicle-note the absence of markings, and the presence of smoke grenade launchers.
HL: Yes…didn’t mean to say that it was the exact same vehicle. This one isn’t named ‘Frankenstein’, but it’s Frankenstein in nature. I modified my post.
I wonder how much protection it’d give in a roll-over. Probably just fold up and pinch the gunner.
nope, not just you, its a mk19 and an M240.