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Pure hit piece!

Chance of hitting dismounts - 1%? My BS meter exploded.

If the reporter (and I use the term very loosely) had a clue, she would have asked to see the IDF trials.
How the IDF planned to use the system (tanks AIN'T APCs) and the reloaded/one shot use was danced around big time. I could go on, but why waste the B/W?

Hit piece.

Blech.

I saw it too......every time she asked a direct question the Trophy company hesitated a fraction of a second and looked away quickly before he answered......I'm no body language expert, but his responses were plainly less than honest.

This one disturbed me too. The last time the media stirred the weaponry/equipment pot it was over up armored Humvees. Has anyone seen the analysis of fatalities in retro armored Humvees? The "road accident" deaths exceeded the IED deaths at one point about a year ago. You take a system designed for one set of circumstances and you hastily modify it and guess what? unintended consequences rear their ugly little heads - and you get a lot of troops killed because the center of gravity in the vehicles has been radically altered.

I don't know jack about armored vehicles (other that the observation above, based on an article from the NYT), serving in the military, or designing weapons systems. But neither does Lisa Meyers or the producers and writers who wrote her cue cards. I hope some General who will have to testify about all this media induced concern is turned loose on these fools and the Democrats on the Armed Services committees, who will no doubt amplify this crap.