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.

High demand for run-flat wheels for U.S. military Humvees in Iraq is keeping the U.S. subsidiary of a French industrial firm working at top speed. Trenton-based Hutchinson Industries Inc., a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...