06/17/2026

Someone mounted a 105mm howitzer on a Humvee. Physics says that shouldn’t survive three rounds. It’s been working in Ukraine since spring 2024. AM General publicly confirmed shipping the 2-CT Hawkeye into combat testing in April of that year, then went almost completely silent; which, in a war where failed equipment gets exposed on Telegram within days, is itself a good signal.

In this video: how soft recoil engineering cheats Newton’s third law by giving the barrel somewhere to go before the round fires, why a concept that failed in the 1970s only works now because of modern digital fire control, and what it means that AM General just unveiled a next-generation version and India signed a manufacturing partnership for a system nobody’s supposed to be talking about.

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