Cut resistant tire

A heavy duty pneumatic tire comprising at least a pair of parallel annular beads, carcass plies wrapped around said beads, reinforcement plies disposed radially over said carcass plies in a crown area of the tire, a tread disposed radially over said reinforcement plies, and sidewalls disposed between said tread and said beads, the improvement wherein continuous monofilament brass coated steel wire having a diameter of 0.4 to 1.2 mm is included in or radially under said tread as the warp and weft wires in a woven structure, wherein when said tire is in an unvulcanized and unexpanded state said warp and weft wires in said woven structure are inclined at an angle of substantially 45 degrees with respect to the equatorial plane of the tire, said warp and weft wires being free to move relative to one another, and wherein before incorporation in a wire structure said brass coated steel wire has an elongation at break of 2 to 8% and a tensile strength of 1300 MPa to 3500 MPa.