So many posts start this way, but, I'm looking for a little help please.

I am working on a little project and have been looking through my humvee pictures and on Prime Portal and have got my head turned around a little with the seemingly hundreds of humvee variations.

I have some pictures of a M1097A2/M998 cargo hummer with a large utility body on the back, similiar to the way some pick up trucks are turned into work vehicles, often the Hummer is titled CMTH or SECM and are either mobile workshops or electronic warfare vehicles.

I'm working on a flightline maintenance vehicle to go with my OH58D Warrior that I don't know the kids are getting me for my birthday. Does anyone have any info on that sort of Hummer? Are they used that way? I assume so as the vehicle is used for pretty much everything else and the aircraft always need some work or fuelling or loading etc before flight.

And I am sure, that somewhere, I have seen a Hummer towing a bowser, be it a water tank or fuel tank. Has anyone else seen anything like this, would it be practical for a Hummer on the flightline to be towing a fuel tank, maybe 500 gallons or so for topping off the helos before the mission?

Any thoughts or pictures or pointers would be appreciated very much.

Thank you.

Can't help answer the question directly, but I can define the acronyms, which might give you more to search on:

CMTH: Contact Maintenance Truck, Heavy
SECM: Shop Equipped Contact Maintenance

There appear to be a number of SECM configurations, including the one seen in this article about aviation maintenance. The CMTH body should also not be confused with the electronics shelters used with the HMMWV.

Simon,

This is the M-1097 CMTH that build on the trailer M-1101 LTT-F, is a TQG 10KW Diesel.





Hope this helps in your decision.

Thanks for both of those, the article was interesting and gave me a couple of ideas and the pictures of the Hummer model were very good, nice build and gave me some inspiration!

Hi Simon

If you're interested, I can send you the Technical Manual for the M1097 variant fitted with the SECM plateform for aviation maintenance, as mentioned in Joe's post. Just PM me your email



HTH

Frenchy

Thank you Frenchy, that's very good of you, I've sent you that PM. Thanks again.