[1] In military logistics, it is concerned with maintaining army supply lines with food, armaments, ammunitions, and spare parts apart from the transportation of troops themselves.
It inherited the nickname "Deuce and a Half" from an older 2½-ton truck, the World War II GMC CCKW.
The Logistics Vehicle System (LVS), nicknamed by U.S. Marines as "Dragon Wagon", is a modular assortment of eight-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle unit combinations used by the United States Marine Corps.
The United States Army does not use the LVS, it uses the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT).
[14] The Canadian Army had adopted the Navistar Defence LLC Medium Logistics truck.
As of mid-July 2015, the MSVS SMP (Standard Military Pattern) vehicle had been chosen.
Firstly, the 255 used new and much more powerful engine - the YaMZ-238 (same used in MT-LB tracked APC), replacing the previously used and sensibly weaker YaAZ-206B which was used in 214.
It also featured new headlights (which were now, together with turn signals, located in their own housings mounted on the fenders) and, most notably, much wider tires (1300 x 530 x 533 in dimensions), which offered lighter ground pressure and thus, even greater off-road capabilities when compared to its predecessor
The Ural-375 is a general purpose 4.5 ton 6×6 truck produced at the Ural Automotive Plant in the Russian SFSR from 1961 to 1993.