General Dynamics delivers first MRAP vehicles designed to deflect blasts from IEDs

General Dynamics ^ | Jul 11, 2007

[Lil'freeper]

Naw, they appear on Future Weapons and The Transformers (you can buy the toy at Walmart even)... the evaluation better measure up to the ratings or it will be Dragon Skin all over again.

[Lil'freeper]

to wit: Bonecrusher

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*I know, I know, this is FPI's Buffalo, not the GD vehicle...

[null and void]

The question is, do we have enough industrial capacity?

Well DUH! We'll have 'em built in China...

[kiriath_jearim]

I hope that the acronym “MRAP” won’t be used by some L.A.-based rap singer who goes on to join Snoop Dogg in concert: “Snoop Dog and MRAP”

[null and void]

Yes and no.

That is how they are fought on the battlefield.

They are won(?) and lost in Congress, though...

[Leisler]

Near the end of the Vietnam war the military did the failed raid on the Son Tay prison camp. The troops had the then fairly new Aimpoint sights. 1970. I got out of the Army in 82/83, so the Aimpoints were around for over ten years, maybe 15. Officially we were not to have, use or practice with them, yet we all went down to the local good old boy civilian gun store and bought one. At the time they were about $150.

I don’t know when Aimpoints, or their equivalents were issued commonly, say around 1990. Maybe some knows. Anyhow, that simple, cheap, factor increasing technology took the Army 20 years. Pathetic.

By the way, the Son Tay raid failed because the planning was too long and the raiders showed up too late. Slowness again was the motto.

[mamelukesabre]

I see. Well, that makes sense. They are copies of the south african design. But now there is the question...what’s the difference between a cougar and a RG-31 charger? Maybe the “charger” is a misprint. This is what was confusing me. I found it in the wikipedia site. Go down to where it says “variants”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RG-31

this is the same link I posted earlier.

[RobbyS]

You mean every commander is not Stonewall jackson? ;-)

[bnelson44]

RG-31 Charger - US Army version of the Mk3 and Mk5 with a Detroit Diesel engine

[mamelukesabre]

So the marine version is called a cougar, and has a foreign made engine? What is it? Mercedes benz? Isuzu?

[FreeAtlanta]

But they lived!!! This is fantastic. Let the creeps build bigger ieds. It has to be more difficult for them to do that and more costly. There should be a lot fewer of them.

This looks to be a terrific vehicle!