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 ...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Wausau, Wis., company have come up with a 37-inch, bullet and bomb-proof Humvee tire based on a polymeric web so cool looking there's no need for hub caps.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...