A 10-week strike of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. workers is creating a shortage of Humvee tires used by the military overseas, according to the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

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 ...

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 ...