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Mine-resistant 'MRAP's called 'four-to-five' times safer than Humvees for U.S. forces
World Tribune ^
| Monday, May 14, 2007
Posted on 05/14/2007 2:48:11 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:50:06 PM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: Teflonic
Where is the nearest dealership?
To: BradtotheBone
Many different kinds of them. Here's a few.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:53:15 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: BradtotheBone
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration plans to accelerate deliveries of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles for the U.S. military in Iraq. Officials said not one Marine has been killed during 300 IED attacks on MRAPs. They said MRAP's raised, V-shaped underbelly deflected the force of IEDs. In all, the Marines have deployed 65 MRAPs in Iraq. Excellent news - Whatever means necessary should be happening 24/7 to get as many MRAPs over there as possible. GOv't is so inefficient at times it is still mind boggling...
To: Teflonic
That gun turret looks pretty exposed.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:54:43 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(http://www.appealforcourage.org)
To: Teflonic
If John Corzine had riden in one of thise, he’d be working out of the governor’s mansion instead of from home!
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:55:00 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Truth is the enemy of the lie.)
To: DevSix
Where’s the funding coming from?
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:55:30 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(http://www.appealforcourage.org)
To: Teflonic
WOW - what a beast.
I’d hate to be a bad guy and see that rolling my way.
Full of our troops....
To: archy; Gringo1; Matthew James; Fred Mertz; Squantos; colorado tanker; The Shrew; SLB; Darksheare; ..
Treadhead ping.
Even though there aren’t any treads, I thought there’s enough armor to more than make this of interest.
BTW, the treadhead graphic is MIA. I can host it, if someone has it.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:57:06 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: BradtotheBone
Sounds/looks like a great vehicle. Hope we get them deployed FAST! Just watch, now the latest RAT talking point will be that the eviiilll Bush/Cheney cabal did not have 20,000 of these on hand four years ago. Of course, no one in the MSM will bother to ask why RATs in Congress, not to mention the Clintonistas who were in power for 8 years, never bothered to provide such equipment for the troops they claim to care about. If the RATs always have such foresight, why did the Clintonistas waste 8 years without even producing modest amounts of body armor, not to mention up-armored Humvees and now these latest and greatest...... oh, I forget, being a RAT means never having to say you´re sorry!
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:57:42 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
To: Teflonic
Yeah, I want one too!!
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:02:32 PM PDT
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration."- unknown)
To: BradtotheBone
Our experience is that Marines in these vehicles have been four or five times safer than a Marine in an armored Humvee," mohammedans will just build IED's 4-5 times more powerful.
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:05:09 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: BradtotheBone
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:09:33 PM PDT
by
Gone_Postal
(Communism works only in Heaven, where they don’t need it, and in Hell, where they’ve already got)
To: BradtotheBone
Too damn bad the liberal “hate America” crowd won’t release the tax dollars necessary to purchase these much needed vehicles!
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:10:00 PM PDT
by
paratrooper82
(82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky")
To: Dumpster Baby
What do you suppose the ramps are for on the “IED” photo? The ones right above the front fenders.
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:22:44 PM PDT
by
scan59
(History repeats.)
To: BradtotheBone
Officials said not one Marine has been killed during 300 IED attacks on MRAPs... "Our experience is that Marines in these vehicles have been four or five times safer than a Marine in an armored Humvee,"
That doesn't make sense. These numbers have been cooked.
To: Dumpster Baby
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:28:01 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: DevSix
Whatever means necessary should be happening 24/7 to get as many MRAPs over there as possible. GOv't is so inefficient at times it is still mind boggling...You are so correct.
We are the USA. We should be able to produce, and deploy, at least a few hundred more MRAP's by years end, if not sooner.
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:28:41 PM PDT
by
technomage
(You get what you want one step at a time)
To: xenophiles
Why? The Marine Corps has more than 100 MRAP vehicles on the ground in Iraq.
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:28:58 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(http://www.appealforcourage.org)
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