Top Gear (US) s06e05 Episode Script
Military Might
Whoa! They're firing.
Okay.
They're firing.
Here I come with the second load.
Go, go, go, go.
- Whoa, what was that? My first time in a troop carrier.
Really? You couldn't tell.
You look good.
- War is changing, and so are military vehicles.
These days, some vehicles originally designed for civilian use, like light-duty pickups, are being used in combat around the world, but are there civilian vehicles tough enough to serve in the U.
S.
Army? - The terrain out here is insane.
It's okay that I'm a little bit scared, right? - It's all right.
- Yeah - To find out, we head deep into the desert to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, where we pick up the vehicles that we are enlisting for the military.
- My vehicle is perfect for this kind of terrain.
You need ground clearance.
You need to be able to do whatever's thrown your way.
- You need something you can work on if it breaks.
I didn't pick either of those things.
- I'm stunned.
The National Training Center at Fort Irwin is in the middle of California's Mojave Desert.
It's roughly the size of Rhode Island and has over a dozen sprawling mock villages.
It's the only place massive enough for training missions with entire brigades of over 5,000 soldiers.
There is no better place to test our vehicles.
- I think we're slowing down.
Yup, here--oh.
- Thanks for the ride, fellas.
- Thanks.
- Well, l guess they got their orders to just leave us out here.
- Well, listen.
I don't see any cars this way.
- No.
- This way.
- Oh.
- Oh, yeah.
That, my friends Is a 2016 Ram Power Wagon.
It's the perfect choice, because it's tough and easy to work on.
In fact, today's Power Wagon is a descendent of the WC series military truck used by the army in World War Il, only now, instead of large gun mounts, you can get it fitted with an 8 1/2 inch touch screen, heated mirrors, and parking sensors.
4x4 6.
4-liter Hemi.
That is exactly what they need.
- No, that's exactly what they need.
2016 Jeep Willys Wheeler edition.
I chose the Willys Wheeler, because it can go up and over anything.
In 1941, Willys-Overland, the original manufacture of the Jeep, drove a prototype up the stairs of the U.
S.
Capitol in a publicity stunt designed to beat out the other companies for the government contract, and it worked.
Since World War Il, no other vehicle has served its country more faithfully than a Jeep.
285 horsepower, four-wheel drive, six-speed manual.
Let's go win another war.
- Wait, did you bring a Subaru? - Yeah.
2016 Subaru WRX STI.
I'm the only one thinking outside the box.
The military has four-wheel-drive trucks, but they have nothing like this.
Subaru's been a major player in rally racing since 1980, and in the last ten years, they've won nine championships in the U.
S.
It has a proven all-wheel-drive system, and it can take a beating.
Plus, with 305 horsepower, it'll do zero to 60 in 4.
8 seconds, so it's fast and agile enough to run circles around you.
All-wheel-drive special forces fury.
They got fast jets, fast helicopters, but they don't have fast cars in the military.
That's what that's about.
- Dude.
- That's what the Subaru's about.
- Ugh, that's-- - You blew it.
You totally blew it.
- They don't have it 'cause they don't need it, you dope.
- Give me some smooth road, and I'll show what she does.
- We're in a desert.
There is no smooth road.
Whoo! Fort Irwin has over 1,000 square miles of terrain, and there's lots of ground to cover before our first test, where we're meeting our OCTs, or "observer coach trainers.
" What the army needs is a vehicle that's tough, that can go anywhere, still be pretty quick, and be easy to work on.
I think the Power Wagon is all of those things.
- Willys was an automaker that bid for the contract in 1941 To make general purpose vehicles for the army in World War II.
"General purpose," GP, that was shortened to "Jeep.
" That's where the name "Jeep" came from.
Sometimes the obvious choice is the right one.
- It does have the all-wheel-drive 300 horsepower.
It's got the torque.
It's got the traction.
For a special operations unit trying to get in and out fast, this would be the perfect machine.
Here's what happens to pickup trucks out here, Rut.
- Yeah, you might not want to park that way.
- 9/11 marked the beginning of the War on Terror, and the army began training counterinsurgency warfare to prepare troops to deploy.
Now Fort Irwin and the National Training Center provide an environment that simultaneously incorporates both conventional and insurgent threats to train units for victory in a complex world.
With simulated gunfire, live explosions, and over a dozen mock villages, it provides the most realistic training available.
It's also home to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, who operate as the opposing force and fight as insurgents.
- Look at this.
- I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, fellas.
- Hold on; There's a truck up here blocking the road.
- Oh! - Move, move, move! - Out, out! - Out, go, go, go, go! - Move, move, move, move! - Move! Move! - Come on, Adam.
What did you do? - I guess they're the bad guys.
- Who are they shooting at? Go look and see who they're shooting at.
- I'm not going--look and see who they're shooting at? - You go look.
- I'm not going.
Do you hear that? Those are helicopters.
- Here comes the cavalry, gentlemen.
- They're just running now.
All: Whoa! Hey! - Cease-fire, gentlemen.
Cease-fire.
Gentlemen, welcome to the National Training Center.
My name is Sergeant Major Pena.
You've stumbled upon one of our training events here.
- We're sorry.
- What I need for you guys to do is get back into your vehicles.
- If you'll follow me.
- Okay.
- You will head directly west for about 8 kilometers.
For your next challenge there, you'll be greeted by First Lieutenant Blackman.
- Thank you, Sergeant Major.
Holy cow.
- Okay, gentlemen, it's 8 klicks this way.
If we can just proceed in an orderly fashion.
- You know, the last time you led us somewhere, we ran into sniper fire and smoke bombs.
- Looks like we're about to race a Hummer.
Do you guys see that up there? - How you doing? - Gentlemen.
Welcome to NTC, National Training Center.
- How are you, sir? - What are we doing out here? - Speed, maneuverability are extremely important for military vehicles, so we'll be testing your three vehicles against the time l set in my vehicle.
- We're racing against the Hummy? - Nice.
- No.
- No.
- You're racing against that.
- Good God.
- Dude, look at that.
- Okay, okay.
That's good there.
That's good there.
That was totally cool.
- We're in California at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to see if there are any civilian vehicles tough enough to serve in the U.
S.
Army.
For the first test of our three choices, we're taking on a tank.
- Okay, okay.
- Dude, look at that! Okay, okay, that's good there.
That's good there.
That was totally cool.
I thought you were falling.
- It's an M1A1 SA.
Has a top speed of 45 miles per hour.
Can engage targets in excess of 4,000 meters on the move or stationary.
- M1A1 tanks were crucial to victory in both Gulf Wars.
They were capable of making kills at a range of greater than 2,500 meters, which is more than a mile and a half.
The Soviet-made tanks the Iraqis had only had a range of 2,000 meters and didn't stand a chance.
- What's that thing weigh? - 72 tons.
- So you think it's gonna be pretty quick around the flags? - Faster than your Subaru.
- Oh! - So you're going first? - I'm going first.
- All right.
Let's do this.
- Aw, this is gonna be awesome.
You ready? Three, two, one, go! Holy crap! Are you kidding me? We are in such trouble right now.
- Oh, man.
- It sounds like he's going really fast.
They're going through the first smoke.
-Ooh, that was awesome.
-Dude! - Look at that.
- How did he stay on course in that smoke? There he is.
- That thing is moving.
- How was it? - It was pretty good.
- What was the time? - 4 minutes 27 seconds.
- Nice.
- Let's see how you handle disappointment.
I'm going next.
Here's the good points.
I have plenty of ground clearance.
I have four-wheel drive.
Bad points is, l can't see a thing, and I have to pee.
- In three, two, one, go! - Here we go.
Big rock.
That's a big rock.
- Oh, he's really going for it.
- Come on, baby.
There you go.
That's it.
Ha-ha.
It's a little bumpy through here; good girl.
- I don't think the Subaru will even go on that road.
- Ha-ha.
- Get up that hill.
- You know what? You're gonna have to take the flat thing and go around.
- Wow, that's a lot of smoke.
Oh, I can't see.
Come on.
Don't hit anything in the smoke.
There we go.
There we go.
Climb this hill, baby.
- Get ready to step back.
- Ahh.
- You're alive.
- Yeah, barely.
You might think you-- you can't see, and you'll be right.
- Fair enough.
- How'd he do? - Did pretty good, 4:40.
That's only 13 seconds slower than the tank.
My turn.
- Get a good look at it.
It's not gonna look like that when it comes back.
- This bumpy, off-road, rock-crawling terrain is probably going to break this car.
I'm gonna do my best to slow down for that stuff, but that's hard for me.
- In three, two, one, go.
- Good God it's bumpy.
- Oh! - He didn't break that.
- And there's no way I'm taking that road.
- Where's he going? - He's gonna have to go around to get to the other one.
The Subaru's low ground clearance forces Tanner on a detour around a hill in the middle of the course.
- Oh, there's some hard hits.
Ow.
Ah, man.
I don't know how many of those it's gonna take.
I can't see anything.
Whoa! Almost hit the smoke canisters.
Whoo! - Wow.
- Can you believe that thing's got bumpers on it still? - I cannot believe it.
- What was my time? - 4:53.
- You got to be kidding me.
- No.
- You went to Kentucky and back.
What'd you expect? - All right, Power Wagon.
- Yeah.
I mean, the likelihood that I can beat the tank is almost zero.
I mean, that thing was flying, but what I can do is beat these two.
- Three, two, one, go.
- There we go.
Oh, this thing is flying.
Here we go.
Hard left.
- Through the smoke.
That looks awesome.
- Boy, the smoke is nuts.
Oh, this is scary.
Oh, it's like Days of Thunder.
I can't see.
That is frightening.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, come on, Power Wagon.
You got it, baby.
Whoo! - Did he soak you down? - What are you guys scared of? - It's just a little a water.
- Oh, no, brother.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's fine.
- Well, you've stood on the gas just long enough.
- What? - 4:33.
- All right! Not bad, except that when you have to say I got beat by something that weighs 72 tons.
- Now you know how we feel.
- You know what? Whoo! What's next? Evasive maneuvers are essential in combat, so we head to the mock village of Razish to test how well our vehicles can evade the enemy in a tight urban environment.
- How you doing? Staff Sergeant Carver.
- Nice to meet you, Sergeant.
- Hi.
Adam.
- Hello.
- Hello.
Tanner.
- OCT with the Cobra 11 Team.
Welcome to your next mission.
Important part about a military vehicle is its survivability.
And we're gonna run through an obstacle course here in Razish.
This is NTC's largest mock city, and it's got state-of-the-art cameras all throughout.
The idea of the challenge is to make it through taking the fewest shots.
- Shots? - From? - Someone's gonna be firing at us? - We've got four snipers hidden around the perimeter and inside of the city.
And they'll be attempting to take you out.
- With live ammo? - No, so on your vehicles you have the MILE system installed.
- Oh, yeah.
- This is the "multiple integrated laser engagement system.
" All the way around the vehicle, you have eight sensors.
The weapon systems both shoot a laser, and your sensor will go off.
- So every time you get hit on one of those sensors, the light goes off? - Yep, and it'll look a little something like this.
- You're gonna be hearing that noise a lot, Tanner.
- Our goal is to avoid getting shot while driving from the west side of the village to the safe zone on the east side marked by a smoke canister.
We can take whatever route we want.
Whoever gets hit the least wins.
- Adam, you go first.
- Now, are you picking him because you feel like the Jeep is gonna do the best of these three? - You know, I don't want to say that I'm a Jeep fan, but I think the Subaru's got the shot.
- Oh, yeah! - In reality, none of your vehicles would make it, because none of 'em have armor, so just remember that when you're being shot at.
- We're being hunted by snipers from the 11th ACR, or "Armored Cavalry Regiment," Also known as "Blackhorse.
" Snipers are a crucial part of today's counterinsurgency strategy.
A skilled sniper in World War ll could hit a human target at 600 yards during the day.
Now snipers hit targets at twice that distance at night.
The five longest confirmed kills by military snipers are all at a distance of over 2,500 yards, about a mile and a half.
Feels kind of weird just watching your friend head out to get shot.
- I got to drive across a town I've never been in, and four of the world's most elite snipers will be shooting at you.
- This is about survivability, which isn't exactly Adam's middle name.
- I think it's, like, Florence or Sue.
Adam, it's Rut.
We can't wait to watch you get shot at.
- Thank you very much.
Here we go.
- Oh, there he is, south side of the prison.
- I don't know where they are.
Come on.
, I can't get-- feels kind of weird just watching your friend head out to get shot.
- Ooh, he's running off the road already.
- He's off the road.
- Oh.
- Light's gone.
- I got to hide.
- Oh, damn it.
- Oh, shot again.
- Where am I gonna go? - Now he's in the city center there.
Where am I going? - Uh-oh.
I'm dead.
- He's literally completely lost.
He just did a U-turn after he got shot.
- The safe zone is supposed to be marked by a smoke canister on the other side of town.
The problem is, l can't see it.
I don't see smoke.
Where's the smoke? - Oh! - Oh, he just got shot again.
- Yeah, right there.
He's hiding.
- Okay.
All right.
Ahh! - Oh, they still got him.
- Shot while hiding.
- Please get your ass the hell out of here.
- There he is.
He's headed out into the desert.
- Great.
- It's not like they can't him from over there.
- Oh, he got hit! - Oh! - They got him anyway.
- I made it! - This is the Subaru's moment to shine.
I got to play to my strengths on this one and just haul ass.
- Three, two, one, go.
- This looks like a pretty tight little neighborhood.
Whoa! - There he is.
- Evasive maneuvers.
- Oh, no! - There he is.
- Oh, he's going around the city center, it looks like.
- Come on! It's a big circle! It's awesome! All right, let's get out of here.
Whoa.
- Oh, oh.
- Oh.
- Oh, yeah, speed now.
Hard right turn.
Come on.
No! How'd he get me back here? What? There are snipers everywhere.
- He's there.
Look.
- There it is! We made it.
- This is where you separate the men from the boys.
The Power Wagon has the speed and suspension to get through the village fast, but it's also a giant red target.
Boys, I'm ready.
- All right, pal.
- You counting him down? - Hold on.
A cloud just came over.
- I'm sorry.
Am I bothering you? - All right.
Oh.
Oh! - He's already hit.
Literally out of the box hit.
- He didn't make the first turn.
- No.
- Ooh, we are flying now.
There it goes.
Ooh.
Oh.
- There, he's hit again.
Bam.
- All right, let's go up this way.
Oh, this is--oh, crap.
This is not what I wanted to do.
Oh.
- There, he's hit again.
- There's the smoke! Oh.
Oh.
- Whoo! - Well, it's about time.
- How'd I do? I assume I--l won.
I mean, I felt like it barely went off.
- Well.
- What? - How'd we do, Sergeant? - Adam, you took 27 hits.
- I heard him.
- Tanner, 12.
- Yes! - 12 rounds.
- That's what I'm talking about.
I'm half as dead as you are.
- You had the speed.
That's what saved you.
- It's what it does.
- Give me some good news, Sarge.
What--what do you got? - Rut.
14.
- Yes! - 14.
- Yes.
- I bet if it wasn't red, I would have totally beat your time, because it's like a big arrow.
- Yep, absolutely.
Camouflage would definitely help.
- Why don't we change the color? - That's good.
- Yeah, I know a guy off base here.
He does wraps for racing, but I'm sure they can do some camo.
- That can't hurt.
- Good.
That's gonna take a little while to get done, and there's something else l want to try out while we have the 1,000 square miles to use.
With one win each, Rut and I are tied.
Tomorrow's epic full-scale mission will determine the best civilian vehicle for military service.
So while the Jeep, Subaru, and Ram are each getting wrapped in our different camouflage choices, I'm pulling out a special vehicle from my own stash.
It's so perfect for the military, it's actually already in use by the special forces.
Whoo-hoo-hoo! - Is that Tanner? What's he driving? - How badass is this? - This was your bright idea, huh? - Hell, yes, gentlemen.
This is the 2016 XP Turbo 1000 Polaris RZR.
144 horsepower of fury.
This is something the military already uses in their elite special forces, and it's mine.
- This is yours? - Of course it is.
- Yeah, I--l dipped into the home stash.
- Oh, this is great.
You know what? We kind of had the feeling you were gonna pull something like this So we thought we'd just come up with a fair challenge here.
That's why you're gonna go up against that.
- What? - Yep.
- The tank again? - Yeah.
- So here's the deal.
You've got ten targets.
The tank's got ten targets.
The difference is, it can use its gun to take theirs out.
You're gonna have to drive through yours.
First one to knock out all their targets and get back here wins.
- Hold on a second.
So my targets are out on the actual firing range - Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
- And he's shooting his guns out there while I'm driving around; that seems safe.
- They're very, very accurate.
- I like it.
- Let's do this.
- Driving downrange from tank fire might be the dumbest idea of all time, so where's the safest place to ride? In the tank.
That leaves Rut to ride shotgun with race boy.
- This is gonna be crazy, isn't it? - He's gonna shoot us.
- Yeah.
- How was your lunch? - It's coming up already.
I can feel it.
Here we go.
In three, two, one, go.
- Go, baby, go.
- Go ahead.
- There's one right up here.
Whoa, mud puddle! - There's one right up here.
Yeah! Go, go, go! - Rut and Tanner are the first to take out one of their ten targets, but so what.
Now the tank's in position, and I'm locked on.
- Aim for target.
- Fire.
Hell yeah! Nine more to go.
- Oh, they're shooting! This is so cool.
I have got to get me one of these.
- Right there.
- Whoa, left turn.
Left turn.
- There you go.
Easy.
Whoa! - We're gonna hit it.
- Okay.
Ahh! All right, that's two targets down.
- Fire! Don't shoot the RZR.
- There's target number three.
Let's do this! Yeah, good work.
- That's three down.
- Okay, where do we go? - This way.
- Let's do it.
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! - Whoa! Nice work.
Oh, man, this thing is fast.
- That's it.
Get on it, son! - There's one right here.
Yeah, baby.
Whoo! Whoa, big rocks.
Big rocks.
Whoa man.
Oh, I'm gonna pee blood later.
Number six.
Oh! That one was just a hard one.
Straight.
- Whoo! - Oh, number seven! - Fire! - On the way.
- Okay.
- Get it out of the way! - I'm trying! Yeah.
All right, number eight's right here.
Whoa! Both: Yeah! - That was awesome.
- Bay 790, fire on the way.
On the way.
- That was awesome! - Ready to 100.
Fire.
On the way.
- That's it, fellas.
Take us home.
- Oh! - With our ten targets destroyed, now it's a race to the finish, and we are faster, much faster.
- Oh! Go! Go! Go! - Ahh! Damn it! You know, if we'd done four-wheel drive, we could have gone a little faster.
- Listen, you're up against a tank, man.
- Yeah, you got a little something.
- How was that? - The ride is very smooth.
- The ride in this not as smooth as the tank.
- Butter.
Butter.
- Uh, one thing's for sure.
I see why the army uses some of these, because they are super fast; they are super nimble.
- However, I mean, this thing's bright yellow.
- It sticks out like a sore thumb.
- True.
- Our cars might be better with the camo, which is probably done by now.
Figure we get a good night's rest, get up early, take another swing at it.
- I'm in.
- Oh, there's my ride.
- Show-off.
- Hey, fellas! Hey! Wait a minute! - In the army, it's up and at 'em, so at dawn's early light, we pick up our newly camouflaged vehicles and drive to a briefing for our final test, a full-scale rescue mission that settles once and for all which civilian vehicle is best for military service.
- It wasn't quite what I was looking for, but--but it is camouflage.
It--it--it might be better in, like, maybe a Central American country, but it doesn't look like a Jeep anymore, and I think--l think it'll blend in.
- When I thought, how could you camouflage something this big? I went old-school.
We're talking British Special Forces in the Second World War.
They had these things called the "Pink Panthers," These old Land Rovers that were painted up and that they blended in with the sort of red rock haziness of the deserts of Africa, and it didn't--this didn't exactly come out exactly like that, But once this thing gets dusty, l think it'll blend right it.
- It said "camo.
" I didn't realize there was, like, a winter and a summer cam-- l know it's, like, dusty and brown out here, and I've got the winter digital camo.
Wasn't exactly what l was going for, but there might be snow later.
I mean, it's cold enough that the winter digital camo might actually work.
Wrong page in the camo catalogue, but I still feel like-- I feel like it's a little more invisible, right? - It's terrible.
- Hey, what time was that briefing supposed to be? - It said dawn, l think first light, which may have happened a few minutes ago.
- This is Operation Eagle Horse.
We'll be starting here at the nuke.
- Pretty cool.
- We'll move along with Subaru--Route Subaru, and then turn off and establish retrans.
- Oh, they see us.
They see us.
Oh, these guys hate being late.
- They'll clear from south to north, and once clearance is complete, back to Route Subaru.
- Morning.
- Sorry we're late.
- I'm glad this is as important to you as it is important to us.
- Yes, sir.
Yes, sir, sorry.
Go ahead.
We'll--we'll catch up.
- All right, do you guys understand? That's--that's the mission.
Al Any questions abo? - What time's lunch? - We're at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, where the brave men and women of the U.
S.
Army are helping us test civilian vehicles to see which is tough enough to serve in the military.
Our final challenge is a full-scale rescue mission, and we're in a convoy en route to the battle zone.
- Convoy's rolling.
- Armed enemy insurgents are in the center of town barricaded in a building.
Our mission has two parts, and we each have specific jobs.
Part one is to secure the building.
Tanner's taken the lead using the Subaru's speed to fly in troops who will engage the insurgents.
Once the building is secure, part two is to extract the disabled Humvee and rescue the wounded soldier.
Rut's using the Power Wagon's torque to pull out the Humvee while I use the Jeep to transport the soldier to the landing zone for helicopter evacuation.
- Today I'm gonna be judging you on the characteristics of the offense.
Speed, concentration, audacity, and tempo.
And we're gonna have to make two runs, because this car is so small, so what you're gonna lose for concentration you're gonna have to make up with tempo and audacity to get these guys in there safe and sound.
- Come on, get up there.
We've dropped them off.
We've now lost the element of surprise.
Now when we drop them off a second time, you're gonna be under enemy fire.
- We'll just have to go faster, then, right? - Yep! Not only will we be under fire on the second drop-off, but even worse, intelligence says the insurgents have rocket-propelled grenades.
- Entering a city.
Just be alert.
This is our most dangerous time right here.
- Well, we don't have guns, and the Power Wagon is bright pink.
- So you're all eyes.
- So all eyes.
I'm watching the road.
- All around--and all eyes are on you.
You're--you're pink.
- Oh, they're firing.
They're firing.
They're firing.
- Okay.
- Oh.
- Tanner, Tanner, get in here.
- Here I come with the second load.
- Tanner, we're waiting on you.
- Go, go, go, go.
Whoa! What was that? - Whoa! Is that an RPG? Whoa! - Instinctively I just want to get out here, but I realize that's not how this part works.
- You've go to--you got to keep your composure and - Whew.
- They're all coming out.
Looks like they secured that building.
- They're requesting immediate vehicle recovery and medevac near the vicinity of the target building, over.
- Over and out, Tanner.
- We're on the move here.
- I'll be pulling out the Humvee.
- I'll get the wounded.
- Whoa, what was that? - Whoa, what was that? - Put these on.
- Yes, Sir! - Could you park any closer? Come on! Let's go! Let's go! - I've got it.
Go! - Holy crap! - Let's get out of here.
- Oh, jeez! Did you see that? - Get your casualty to the extraction point.
Mission accomplished.
Hell yeah! Sir.
Now we're facing evaluation from the OCTs, short for "Observer Coach Trainers," To find out how we did and which civilian vehicle is the best choice for military service.
- How did we do at our different tasks? - You spun around, you know, you hitched up, and you got it out of there; it was a great job.
- Thank you.
- Tanner definitely had audacity, definitely had tempo, and it was fun, but we lost the surprise after we had to go back and get the rest of the squad, so not effective.
- How'd the Jeep do? - I found you to be innovative, courageous, and you had a lot of attention to detail.
The only downsides I had were, you showed a little bit of a lack of humanity with the dummy, and then the size of the actual vehicle and the power and speed behind it were a little bit lacking.
- Does this mean you guys don't classically transport the wounded on the hood of vehicles that are driving? - I saw that on M.
A.
S.
H.
, okay? That--that happened in Korea.
- That--that was a TV show, no less.
- Also-- - Based on a war.
- What do you guys think was the best vehicle out of these three for today? - Unfortunately, it was probably the pink thing sitting behind me.
- Whoo-hoo! - It's got cargo capacity.
It's got a lot of power, a lot of torque, speed, and survivability, and ultimately, at the end of the day, you know, that's what it's about.
- This was the best civilian vehicle to bring to the Army here.
Gentlemen, we can't thank you enough for letting us be here and see how you guys really do stuff, but I got to know, if you had a piece of equipment that doesn't meet your requirements, what does the Army do with it? - It would be out.
- Now, see, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Can I ask you guys for just one more favor? - We're back at the range.
What are we doing here? Why's the Subaru out there? - They had some extra ammo.
- Ammo for what? - For the tank.
- What tank? - That tank.
- Whoa.
- Oh! Oh! What? That was awesome! - I was gonna give that to my mom.
Guys, I need a ride out of here.
Not that I want to get in that thing, but seriously.
All right, you got me.
Wait for me!
Okay.
They're firing.
Here I come with the second load.
Go, go, go, go.
- Whoa, what was that? My first time in a troop carrier.
Really? You couldn't tell.
You look good.
- War is changing, and so are military vehicles.
These days, some vehicles originally designed for civilian use, like light-duty pickups, are being used in combat around the world, but are there civilian vehicles tough enough to serve in the U.
S.
Army? - The terrain out here is insane.
It's okay that I'm a little bit scared, right? - It's all right.
- Yeah - To find out, we head deep into the desert to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, where we pick up the vehicles that we are enlisting for the military.
- My vehicle is perfect for this kind of terrain.
You need ground clearance.
You need to be able to do whatever's thrown your way.
- You need something you can work on if it breaks.
I didn't pick either of those things.
- I'm stunned.
The National Training Center at Fort Irwin is in the middle of California's Mojave Desert.
It's roughly the size of Rhode Island and has over a dozen sprawling mock villages.
It's the only place massive enough for training missions with entire brigades of over 5,000 soldiers.
There is no better place to test our vehicles.
- I think we're slowing down.
Yup, here--oh.
- Thanks for the ride, fellas.
- Thanks.
- Well, l guess they got their orders to just leave us out here.
- Well, listen.
I don't see any cars this way.
- No.
- This way.
- Oh.
- Oh, yeah.
That, my friends Is a 2016 Ram Power Wagon.
It's the perfect choice, because it's tough and easy to work on.
In fact, today's Power Wagon is a descendent of the WC series military truck used by the army in World War Il, only now, instead of large gun mounts, you can get it fitted with an 8 1/2 inch touch screen, heated mirrors, and parking sensors.
4x4 6.
4-liter Hemi.
That is exactly what they need.
- No, that's exactly what they need.
2016 Jeep Willys Wheeler edition.
I chose the Willys Wheeler, because it can go up and over anything.
In 1941, Willys-Overland, the original manufacture of the Jeep, drove a prototype up the stairs of the U.
S.
Capitol in a publicity stunt designed to beat out the other companies for the government contract, and it worked.
Since World War Il, no other vehicle has served its country more faithfully than a Jeep.
285 horsepower, four-wheel drive, six-speed manual.
Let's go win another war.
- Wait, did you bring a Subaru? - Yeah.
2016 Subaru WRX STI.
I'm the only one thinking outside the box.
The military has four-wheel-drive trucks, but they have nothing like this.
Subaru's been a major player in rally racing since 1980, and in the last ten years, they've won nine championships in the U.
S.
It has a proven all-wheel-drive system, and it can take a beating.
Plus, with 305 horsepower, it'll do zero to 60 in 4.
8 seconds, so it's fast and agile enough to run circles around you.
All-wheel-drive special forces fury.
They got fast jets, fast helicopters, but they don't have fast cars in the military.
That's what that's about.
- Dude.
- That's what the Subaru's about.
- Ugh, that's-- - You blew it.
You totally blew it.
- They don't have it 'cause they don't need it, you dope.
- Give me some smooth road, and I'll show what she does.
- We're in a desert.
There is no smooth road.
Whoo! Fort Irwin has over 1,000 square miles of terrain, and there's lots of ground to cover before our first test, where we're meeting our OCTs, or "observer coach trainers.
" What the army needs is a vehicle that's tough, that can go anywhere, still be pretty quick, and be easy to work on.
I think the Power Wagon is all of those things.
- Willys was an automaker that bid for the contract in 1941 To make general purpose vehicles for the army in World War II.
"General purpose," GP, that was shortened to "Jeep.
" That's where the name "Jeep" came from.
Sometimes the obvious choice is the right one.
- It does have the all-wheel-drive 300 horsepower.
It's got the torque.
It's got the traction.
For a special operations unit trying to get in and out fast, this would be the perfect machine.
Here's what happens to pickup trucks out here, Rut.
- Yeah, you might not want to park that way.
- 9/11 marked the beginning of the War on Terror, and the army began training counterinsurgency warfare to prepare troops to deploy.
Now Fort Irwin and the National Training Center provide an environment that simultaneously incorporates both conventional and insurgent threats to train units for victory in a complex world.
With simulated gunfire, live explosions, and over a dozen mock villages, it provides the most realistic training available.
It's also home to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, who operate as the opposing force and fight as insurgents.
- Look at this.
- I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, fellas.
- Hold on; There's a truck up here blocking the road.
- Oh! - Move, move, move! - Out, out! - Out, go, go, go, go! - Move, move, move, move! - Move! Move! - Come on, Adam.
What did you do? - I guess they're the bad guys.
- Who are they shooting at? Go look and see who they're shooting at.
- I'm not going--look and see who they're shooting at? - You go look.
- I'm not going.
Do you hear that? Those are helicopters.
- Here comes the cavalry, gentlemen.
- They're just running now.
All: Whoa! Hey! - Cease-fire, gentlemen.
Cease-fire.
Gentlemen, welcome to the National Training Center.
My name is Sergeant Major Pena.
You've stumbled upon one of our training events here.
- We're sorry.
- What I need for you guys to do is get back into your vehicles.
- If you'll follow me.
- Okay.
- You will head directly west for about 8 kilometers.
For your next challenge there, you'll be greeted by First Lieutenant Blackman.
- Thank you, Sergeant Major.
Holy cow.
- Okay, gentlemen, it's 8 klicks this way.
If we can just proceed in an orderly fashion.
- You know, the last time you led us somewhere, we ran into sniper fire and smoke bombs.
- Looks like we're about to race a Hummer.
Do you guys see that up there? - How you doing? - Gentlemen.
Welcome to NTC, National Training Center.
- How are you, sir? - What are we doing out here? - Speed, maneuverability are extremely important for military vehicles, so we'll be testing your three vehicles against the time l set in my vehicle.
- We're racing against the Hummy? - Nice.
- No.
- No.
- You're racing against that.
- Good God.
- Dude, look at that.
- Okay, okay.
That's good there.
That's good there.
That was totally cool.
- We're in California at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to see if there are any civilian vehicles tough enough to serve in the U.
S.
Army.
For the first test of our three choices, we're taking on a tank.
- Okay, okay.
- Dude, look at that! Okay, okay, that's good there.
That's good there.
That was totally cool.
I thought you were falling.
- It's an M1A1 SA.
Has a top speed of 45 miles per hour.
Can engage targets in excess of 4,000 meters on the move or stationary.
- M1A1 tanks were crucial to victory in both Gulf Wars.
They were capable of making kills at a range of greater than 2,500 meters, which is more than a mile and a half.
The Soviet-made tanks the Iraqis had only had a range of 2,000 meters and didn't stand a chance.
- What's that thing weigh? - 72 tons.
- So you think it's gonna be pretty quick around the flags? - Faster than your Subaru.
- Oh! - So you're going first? - I'm going first.
- All right.
Let's do this.
- Aw, this is gonna be awesome.
You ready? Three, two, one, go! Holy crap! Are you kidding me? We are in such trouble right now.
- Oh, man.
- It sounds like he's going really fast.
They're going through the first smoke.
-Ooh, that was awesome.
-Dude! - Look at that.
- How did he stay on course in that smoke? There he is.
- That thing is moving.
- How was it? - It was pretty good.
- What was the time? - 4 minutes 27 seconds.
- Nice.
- Let's see how you handle disappointment.
I'm going next.
Here's the good points.
I have plenty of ground clearance.
I have four-wheel drive.
Bad points is, l can't see a thing, and I have to pee.
- In three, two, one, go! - Here we go.
Big rock.
That's a big rock.
- Oh, he's really going for it.
- Come on, baby.
There you go.
That's it.
Ha-ha.
It's a little bumpy through here; good girl.
- I don't think the Subaru will even go on that road.
- Ha-ha.
- Get up that hill.
- You know what? You're gonna have to take the flat thing and go around.
- Wow, that's a lot of smoke.
Oh, I can't see.
Come on.
Don't hit anything in the smoke.
There we go.
There we go.
Climb this hill, baby.
- Get ready to step back.
- Ahh.
- You're alive.
- Yeah, barely.
You might think you-- you can't see, and you'll be right.
- Fair enough.
- How'd he do? - Did pretty good, 4:40.
That's only 13 seconds slower than the tank.
My turn.
- Get a good look at it.
It's not gonna look like that when it comes back.
- This bumpy, off-road, rock-crawling terrain is probably going to break this car.
I'm gonna do my best to slow down for that stuff, but that's hard for me.
- In three, two, one, go.
- Good God it's bumpy.
- Oh! - He didn't break that.
- And there's no way I'm taking that road.
- Where's he going? - He's gonna have to go around to get to the other one.
The Subaru's low ground clearance forces Tanner on a detour around a hill in the middle of the course.
- Oh, there's some hard hits.
Ow.
Ah, man.
I don't know how many of those it's gonna take.
I can't see anything.
Whoa! Almost hit the smoke canisters.
Whoo! - Wow.
- Can you believe that thing's got bumpers on it still? - I cannot believe it.
- What was my time? - 4:53.
- You got to be kidding me.
- No.
- You went to Kentucky and back.
What'd you expect? - All right, Power Wagon.
- Yeah.
I mean, the likelihood that I can beat the tank is almost zero.
I mean, that thing was flying, but what I can do is beat these two.
- Three, two, one, go.
- There we go.
Oh, this thing is flying.
Here we go.
Hard left.
- Through the smoke.
That looks awesome.
- Boy, the smoke is nuts.
Oh, this is scary.
Oh, it's like Days of Thunder.
I can't see.
That is frightening.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, come on, Power Wagon.
You got it, baby.
Whoo! - Did he soak you down? - What are you guys scared of? - It's just a little a water.
- Oh, no, brother.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's fine.
- Well, you've stood on the gas just long enough.
- What? - 4:33.
- All right! Not bad, except that when you have to say I got beat by something that weighs 72 tons.
- Now you know how we feel.
- You know what? Whoo! What's next? Evasive maneuvers are essential in combat, so we head to the mock village of Razish to test how well our vehicles can evade the enemy in a tight urban environment.
- How you doing? Staff Sergeant Carver.
- Nice to meet you, Sergeant.
- Hi.
Adam.
- Hello.
- Hello.
Tanner.
- OCT with the Cobra 11 Team.
Welcome to your next mission.
Important part about a military vehicle is its survivability.
And we're gonna run through an obstacle course here in Razish.
This is NTC's largest mock city, and it's got state-of-the-art cameras all throughout.
The idea of the challenge is to make it through taking the fewest shots.
- Shots? - From? - Someone's gonna be firing at us? - We've got four snipers hidden around the perimeter and inside of the city.
And they'll be attempting to take you out.
- With live ammo? - No, so on your vehicles you have the MILE system installed.
- Oh, yeah.
- This is the "multiple integrated laser engagement system.
" All the way around the vehicle, you have eight sensors.
The weapon systems both shoot a laser, and your sensor will go off.
- So every time you get hit on one of those sensors, the light goes off? - Yep, and it'll look a little something like this.
- You're gonna be hearing that noise a lot, Tanner.
- Our goal is to avoid getting shot while driving from the west side of the village to the safe zone on the east side marked by a smoke canister.
We can take whatever route we want.
Whoever gets hit the least wins.
- Adam, you go first.
- Now, are you picking him because you feel like the Jeep is gonna do the best of these three? - You know, I don't want to say that I'm a Jeep fan, but I think the Subaru's got the shot.
- Oh, yeah! - In reality, none of your vehicles would make it, because none of 'em have armor, so just remember that when you're being shot at.
- We're being hunted by snipers from the 11th ACR, or "Armored Cavalry Regiment," Also known as "Blackhorse.
" Snipers are a crucial part of today's counterinsurgency strategy.
A skilled sniper in World War ll could hit a human target at 600 yards during the day.
Now snipers hit targets at twice that distance at night.
The five longest confirmed kills by military snipers are all at a distance of over 2,500 yards, about a mile and a half.
Feels kind of weird just watching your friend head out to get shot.
- I got to drive across a town I've never been in, and four of the world's most elite snipers will be shooting at you.
- This is about survivability, which isn't exactly Adam's middle name.
- I think it's, like, Florence or Sue.
Adam, it's Rut.
We can't wait to watch you get shot at.
- Thank you very much.
Here we go.
- Oh, there he is, south side of the prison.
- I don't know where they are.
Come on.
, I can't get-- feels kind of weird just watching your friend head out to get shot.
- Ooh, he's running off the road already.
- He's off the road.
- Oh.
- Light's gone.
- I got to hide.
- Oh, damn it.
- Oh, shot again.
- Where am I gonna go? - Now he's in the city center there.
Where am I going? - Uh-oh.
I'm dead.
- He's literally completely lost.
He just did a U-turn after he got shot.
- The safe zone is supposed to be marked by a smoke canister on the other side of town.
The problem is, l can't see it.
I don't see smoke.
Where's the smoke? - Oh! - Oh, he just got shot again.
- Yeah, right there.
He's hiding.
- Okay.
All right.
Ahh! - Oh, they still got him.
- Shot while hiding.
- Please get your ass the hell out of here.
- There he is.
He's headed out into the desert.
- Great.
- It's not like they can't him from over there.
- Oh, he got hit! - Oh! - They got him anyway.
- I made it! - This is the Subaru's moment to shine.
I got to play to my strengths on this one and just haul ass.
- Three, two, one, go.
- This looks like a pretty tight little neighborhood.
Whoa! - There he is.
- Evasive maneuvers.
- Oh, no! - There he is.
- Oh, he's going around the city center, it looks like.
- Come on! It's a big circle! It's awesome! All right, let's get out of here.
Whoa.
- Oh, oh.
- Oh.
- Oh, yeah, speed now.
Hard right turn.
Come on.
No! How'd he get me back here? What? There are snipers everywhere.
- He's there.
Look.
- There it is! We made it.
- This is where you separate the men from the boys.
The Power Wagon has the speed and suspension to get through the village fast, but it's also a giant red target.
Boys, I'm ready.
- All right, pal.
- You counting him down? - Hold on.
A cloud just came over.
- I'm sorry.
Am I bothering you? - All right.
Oh.
Oh! - He's already hit.
Literally out of the box hit.
- He didn't make the first turn.
- No.
- Ooh, we are flying now.
There it goes.
Ooh.
Oh.
- There, he's hit again.
Bam.
- All right, let's go up this way.
Oh, this is--oh, crap.
This is not what I wanted to do.
Oh.
- There, he's hit again.
- There's the smoke! Oh.
Oh.
- Whoo! - Well, it's about time.
- How'd I do? I assume I--l won.
I mean, I felt like it barely went off.
- Well.
- What? - How'd we do, Sergeant? - Adam, you took 27 hits.
- I heard him.
- Tanner, 12.
- Yes! - 12 rounds.
- That's what I'm talking about.
I'm half as dead as you are.
- You had the speed.
That's what saved you.
- It's what it does.
- Give me some good news, Sarge.
What--what do you got? - Rut.
14.
- Yes! - 14.
- Yes.
- I bet if it wasn't red, I would have totally beat your time, because it's like a big arrow.
- Yep, absolutely.
Camouflage would definitely help.
- Why don't we change the color? - That's good.
- Yeah, I know a guy off base here.
He does wraps for racing, but I'm sure they can do some camo.
- That can't hurt.
- Good.
That's gonna take a little while to get done, and there's something else l want to try out while we have the 1,000 square miles to use.
With one win each, Rut and I are tied.
Tomorrow's epic full-scale mission will determine the best civilian vehicle for military service.
So while the Jeep, Subaru, and Ram are each getting wrapped in our different camouflage choices, I'm pulling out a special vehicle from my own stash.
It's so perfect for the military, it's actually already in use by the special forces.
Whoo-hoo-hoo! - Is that Tanner? What's he driving? - How badass is this? - This was your bright idea, huh? - Hell, yes, gentlemen.
This is the 2016 XP Turbo 1000 Polaris RZR.
144 horsepower of fury.
This is something the military already uses in their elite special forces, and it's mine.
- This is yours? - Of course it is.
- Yeah, I--l dipped into the home stash.
- Oh, this is great.
You know what? We kind of had the feeling you were gonna pull something like this So we thought we'd just come up with a fair challenge here.
That's why you're gonna go up against that.
- What? - Yep.
- The tank again? - Yeah.
- So here's the deal.
You've got ten targets.
The tank's got ten targets.
The difference is, it can use its gun to take theirs out.
You're gonna have to drive through yours.
First one to knock out all their targets and get back here wins.
- Hold on a second.
So my targets are out on the actual firing range - Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
- And he's shooting his guns out there while I'm driving around; that seems safe.
- They're very, very accurate.
- I like it.
- Let's do this.
- Driving downrange from tank fire might be the dumbest idea of all time, so where's the safest place to ride? In the tank.
That leaves Rut to ride shotgun with race boy.
- This is gonna be crazy, isn't it? - He's gonna shoot us.
- Yeah.
- How was your lunch? - It's coming up already.
I can feel it.
Here we go.
In three, two, one, go.
- Go, baby, go.
- Go ahead.
- There's one right up here.
Whoa, mud puddle! - There's one right up here.
Yeah! Go, go, go! - Rut and Tanner are the first to take out one of their ten targets, but so what.
Now the tank's in position, and I'm locked on.
- Aim for target.
- Fire.
Hell yeah! Nine more to go.
- Oh, they're shooting! This is so cool.
I have got to get me one of these.
- Right there.
- Whoa, left turn.
Left turn.
- There you go.
Easy.
Whoa! - We're gonna hit it.
- Okay.
Ahh! All right, that's two targets down.
- Fire! Don't shoot the RZR.
- There's target number three.
Let's do this! Yeah, good work.
- That's three down.
- Okay, where do we go? - This way.
- Let's do it.
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! - Whoa! Nice work.
Oh, man, this thing is fast.
- That's it.
Get on it, son! - There's one right here.
Yeah, baby.
Whoo! Whoa, big rocks.
Big rocks.
Whoa man.
Oh, I'm gonna pee blood later.
Number six.
Oh! That one was just a hard one.
Straight.
- Whoo! - Oh, number seven! - Fire! - On the way.
- Okay.
- Get it out of the way! - I'm trying! Yeah.
All right, number eight's right here.
Whoa! Both: Yeah! - That was awesome.
- Bay 790, fire on the way.
On the way.
- That was awesome! - Ready to 100.
Fire.
On the way.
- That's it, fellas.
Take us home.
- Oh! - With our ten targets destroyed, now it's a race to the finish, and we are faster, much faster.
- Oh! Go! Go! Go! - Ahh! Damn it! You know, if we'd done four-wheel drive, we could have gone a little faster.
- Listen, you're up against a tank, man.
- Yeah, you got a little something.
- How was that? - The ride is very smooth.
- The ride in this not as smooth as the tank.
- Butter.
Butter.
- Uh, one thing's for sure.
I see why the army uses some of these, because they are super fast; they are super nimble.
- However, I mean, this thing's bright yellow.
- It sticks out like a sore thumb.
- True.
- Our cars might be better with the camo, which is probably done by now.
Figure we get a good night's rest, get up early, take another swing at it.
- I'm in.
- Oh, there's my ride.
- Show-off.
- Hey, fellas! Hey! Wait a minute! - In the army, it's up and at 'em, so at dawn's early light, we pick up our newly camouflaged vehicles and drive to a briefing for our final test, a full-scale rescue mission that settles once and for all which civilian vehicle is best for military service.
- It wasn't quite what I was looking for, but--but it is camouflage.
It--it--it might be better in, like, maybe a Central American country, but it doesn't look like a Jeep anymore, and I think--l think it'll blend in.
- When I thought, how could you camouflage something this big? I went old-school.
We're talking British Special Forces in the Second World War.
They had these things called the "Pink Panthers," These old Land Rovers that were painted up and that they blended in with the sort of red rock haziness of the deserts of Africa, and it didn't--this didn't exactly come out exactly like that, But once this thing gets dusty, l think it'll blend right it.
- It said "camo.
" I didn't realize there was, like, a winter and a summer cam-- l know it's, like, dusty and brown out here, and I've got the winter digital camo.
Wasn't exactly what l was going for, but there might be snow later.
I mean, it's cold enough that the winter digital camo might actually work.
Wrong page in the camo catalogue, but I still feel like-- I feel like it's a little more invisible, right? - It's terrible.
- Hey, what time was that briefing supposed to be? - It said dawn, l think first light, which may have happened a few minutes ago.
- This is Operation Eagle Horse.
We'll be starting here at the nuke.
- Pretty cool.
- We'll move along with Subaru--Route Subaru, and then turn off and establish retrans.
- Oh, they see us.
They see us.
Oh, these guys hate being late.
- They'll clear from south to north, and once clearance is complete, back to Route Subaru.
- Morning.
- Sorry we're late.
- I'm glad this is as important to you as it is important to us.
- Yes, sir.
Yes, sir, sorry.
Go ahead.
We'll--we'll catch up.
- All right, do you guys understand? That's--that's the mission.
Al Any questions abo? - What time's lunch? - We're at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, where the brave men and women of the U.
S.
Army are helping us test civilian vehicles to see which is tough enough to serve in the military.
Our final challenge is a full-scale rescue mission, and we're in a convoy en route to the battle zone.
- Convoy's rolling.
- Armed enemy insurgents are in the center of town barricaded in a building.
Our mission has two parts, and we each have specific jobs.
Part one is to secure the building.
Tanner's taken the lead using the Subaru's speed to fly in troops who will engage the insurgents.
Once the building is secure, part two is to extract the disabled Humvee and rescue the wounded soldier.
Rut's using the Power Wagon's torque to pull out the Humvee while I use the Jeep to transport the soldier to the landing zone for helicopter evacuation.
- Today I'm gonna be judging you on the characteristics of the offense.
Speed, concentration, audacity, and tempo.
And we're gonna have to make two runs, because this car is so small, so what you're gonna lose for concentration you're gonna have to make up with tempo and audacity to get these guys in there safe and sound.
- Come on, get up there.
We've dropped them off.
We've now lost the element of surprise.
Now when we drop them off a second time, you're gonna be under enemy fire.
- We'll just have to go faster, then, right? - Yep! Not only will we be under fire on the second drop-off, but even worse, intelligence says the insurgents have rocket-propelled grenades.
- Entering a city.
Just be alert.
This is our most dangerous time right here.
- Well, we don't have guns, and the Power Wagon is bright pink.
- So you're all eyes.
- So all eyes.
I'm watching the road.
- All around--and all eyes are on you.
You're--you're pink.
- Oh, they're firing.
They're firing.
They're firing.
- Okay.
- Oh.
- Tanner, Tanner, get in here.
- Here I come with the second load.
- Tanner, we're waiting on you.
- Go, go, go, go.
Whoa! What was that? - Whoa! Is that an RPG? Whoa! - Instinctively I just want to get out here, but I realize that's not how this part works.
- You've go to--you got to keep your composure and - Whew.
- They're all coming out.
Looks like they secured that building.
- They're requesting immediate vehicle recovery and medevac near the vicinity of the target building, over.
- Over and out, Tanner.
- We're on the move here.
- I'll be pulling out the Humvee.
- I'll get the wounded.
- Whoa, what was that? - Whoa, what was that? - Put these on.
- Yes, Sir! - Could you park any closer? Come on! Let's go! Let's go! - I've got it.
Go! - Holy crap! - Let's get out of here.
- Oh, jeez! Did you see that? - Get your casualty to the extraction point.
Mission accomplished.
Hell yeah! Sir.
Now we're facing evaluation from the OCTs, short for "Observer Coach Trainers," To find out how we did and which civilian vehicle is the best choice for military service.
- How did we do at our different tasks? - You spun around, you know, you hitched up, and you got it out of there; it was a great job.
- Thank you.
- Tanner definitely had audacity, definitely had tempo, and it was fun, but we lost the surprise after we had to go back and get the rest of the squad, so not effective.
- How'd the Jeep do? - I found you to be innovative, courageous, and you had a lot of attention to detail.
The only downsides I had were, you showed a little bit of a lack of humanity with the dummy, and then the size of the actual vehicle and the power and speed behind it were a little bit lacking.
- Does this mean you guys don't classically transport the wounded on the hood of vehicles that are driving? - I saw that on M.
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S.
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, okay? That--that happened in Korea.
- That--that was a TV show, no less.
- Also-- - Based on a war.
- What do you guys think was the best vehicle out of these three for today? - Unfortunately, it was probably the pink thing sitting behind me.
- Whoo-hoo! - It's got cargo capacity.
It's got a lot of power, a lot of torque, speed, and survivability, and ultimately, at the end of the day, you know, that's what it's about.
- This was the best civilian vehicle to bring to the Army here.
Gentlemen, we can't thank you enough for letting us be here and see how you guys really do stuff, but I got to know, if you had a piece of equipment that doesn't meet your requirements, what does the Army do with it? - It would be out.
- Now, see, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Can I ask you guys for just one more favor? - We're back at the range.
What are we doing here? Why's the Subaru out there? - They had some extra ammo.
- Ammo for what? - For the tank.
- What tank? - That tank.
- Whoa.
- Oh! Oh! What? That was awesome! - I was gonna give that to my mom.
Guys, I need a ride out of here.
Not that I want to get in that thing, but seriously.
All right, you got me.
Wait for me!