M1025 Scout

"Travel in safety and style"

- Merchant of Menace store caption

The M1025 Scout is an Allied Nations ground vehicle featured in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.

Overview
"Breeze past Allied roadblocks! Pose for the media! This sturdy off-road vehicle includes a .50cal machine gun and room for five."

- Merchant of Menace store description

Fast and rugged, the M1025 can be used for a variety of purposes, thanks to the versatility of the transport. The Scout can hold up to four passengers, including the driver, and a fifth soldier can man the weapon located on the top of the vehicle. The M1025 chassis is the base for a variety of differently specialized vehicles, such as the Anti-Tank armed Scout, the Anti-Air Scout, and the Standard Scout. The Standard M1025 wields a .50 caliber Browning machine gun, allowing for effective anti-personnel capabilities.

The M1025 can be found at any AN installation. There are plenty driving around the DMZ and along the roads between the HQ and the South Korean HQ in the Southern Province and also a few at the MASH and surrounding roads. In the Northern Province they can only be found around the AN HQ and MASH which are very close by. However, it is rare to find others anywhere else.

The M1025 Scout will become available for purchase from the Merchant of Menace after completing the contract 'Downed Bird in Enemy Nest' for a minimum of $20,000 and a maximum of $28,000.

Tactics
The M1025 Scout is a good means of transport, it has a better armor than the Sungri Scout, although it is not quite as fast. It has some resiliance to small-arms fire, but it's weak to anti-tank weaponry anyway. The weight of the vehicle gives it good ramming power and the M1025 is capable of pushing away all vehicles lighter than itself. The M1025 can carry a good amount of allied troops and it's an ideal vehicle to drive around with a soldier manning its machine gun, who will take care of enemy infantry and light armored vehicles. The M1025 is still quite fast for its size, and can be considered one of the most balanced ground vehicles in the game.

Real life
The M1025 Scout is based on the AM General HMMWV, commonly known as the Humvee.

Trivia

 * The M1025 Scout is the first vehicle driven in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and the first in the entire series; although the Sungri Scout was the first vehicle encountered in the demo.
 * The M1025 Scout is powered by what sounds exactly like a strong gasoline-powered engine. The real-life HMMWV or "Humvee" does not use a gasoline engine, being powered by a V8 diesel engine.
 * The render of the M1025 shows it equipped with an M60 General Purpose Machine Gun, but in-game it is equipped with an M2 Heavy Machine Gun. Instead, the M60 is only present on the M1 Tank, and is ironically extremely accurate and powerful compared to the M2.