While primarily being the vehicular backbone of U.S. forces, the military hummer is also being used by a large number of other militaries around the world. Most of these countries have versions of the vehicle that slightly varies from the traditional U.S. military HMMWV.
Swiss versions of the military hummer
The MOWAG Eagle, today more commonly called the Eagle or the Swiss hummer is available with varying levels of armour and indented for border patrolling, police missions, reconnaissance surveillance, liaison and escort. The newest version of the Eagle uses a Duro III chassis instead of the HMMWV (Hummer) chassis and is NBC-tight.
The Israeli hummer
Armoured versions of the military hummer has been developed by Israeli owned vehicle manufacturer Plasan. The M1114GR and M1118GR are two example of armoured Israeli hummers and they are as an example used by Greece, another example is the HMMWV Armored Protection Kit used by the Portugese Army. There is also a special kit available only to the Israeli defence forces.
Polish versions of the military hummer
Poland uses more than 200 different version of the military hummer, some of them well known but there are also some variants with undisclosed specs used by the special forces. The hummer is especially popular as a land transportation vehicle for the 18th Airborne Battalion. Among the many different Polish military hummers you will for instance find one suitable for special container transport, as well as hummers equipped with a rotable mount that can be fitted with a UKM-2000P 7.62mm general purpose machine gun or a NSW-B 12.7mm heavy machine gun.
The Bulgarian Hummer
Bulgaria has just like Poland outfitted some of their hummer with machine guns. An important difference is however that they use the PKS machine gun (Developed from the AK47) in their cars to make maintenance easy.
The Turkish HMMWV
In Turkey, you will find the Otokar Cobra a light armoured vehicle developed in Turkey using some components from the U.S. military hummer. It does however differ from most other military hummer variants due to its amphibious capabilities in combat. Different variants of the Otokar Cobra are also used as anti-tank vehicles, armoured personal carriers, armoured command posts, ground surveillance radar vehicles, reconnaissance vehicles, forward observation vehicles, ground surveillance radar vehicles, and armoured ambulance.
The Otokar Cobra is fitted with a monocoque (structural skin / stressed skin) steel v-hull that protects personnel from anything from small arms fire and artillery shell shrapnel to anti-personnel and anti-tank mines and most types of improvised explosive devices. For added security, the front wheel arches have been modified to be blown away to free blast pockets. Depending on configuration, the Otokar Cobra is capable of providing full armour protection for 4 to 11 persons.
Some of the Otokar Cobras are turreted for 12.7 mm machine gun and 20 mm anti-tank missiles (including Spike missiles and surface-to-air missiles).
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