The Howie-Wiley Machine Gun Carrier Father Of The Jeep

We haven't done a good tank video here at ChiTownView in a long time, we do have a playlist of past uploads here. I was going through some old files I came across this nugget, it's not an armored vehicle but it is pretty unique. The plucky jeep is one of America's icons starting as a military vehicle in the second world war and blossomed into a cultural phenomenon afterwards. In this clip we get a look at the contraption that ultimately led to the birth of the Jeep. Ladies and gents behold the Howie-Wiley Machine Gun Carrier aka The Belly Flopper. A two man low low slug mobile machine gun nest with a driver that drove with his feet while laying on his belly. It never was seriously considered but it did awaken the army's interest in developing a light nimble reconnaissance vehicle . They called for project proposals and the winner was the almost bankrupt American Bantam company which came up with the Jeep.
For those who want more info in this strange little jalopy check out this post. foxtrotalpha.j...

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Turn it into an autonomous drone with the ability to change it's ground clearance and maybe even articulate in the middle (allow for depression) and I can see this being used today.