Posted on 06/20/2013 6:39:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The US is going to destroy about $7 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan because it would cost too much money to ship it home or because the gear wouldn't be of much use anymore, reports the Washington Post. That includes about 2,000 hulking MRAPs—mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles that cost $1 million apiece. The excess equipment is being turned into scrap metal.
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At least that’s 2000 armored vehicles that won’t be given to the Oppossum Hollow SWAT team.
What is the cost of buying a new one?
Why not give it all to the Chinese and declare debt. paid?
I know they did something quite similar at the end of World War II. Especially in the Pacific Theater, but my B.S. Detector is going off! Just because they say they are destroyed doesn’t make it so. A simple computer entry and they are destroyed and later on the “new” owners just stop by to pick them up.
So D*MNNED much waste and Fraud upon the Taxpayers of the United States.
so Cash for Clunkers was sort of a Beta Test....
Seems like it wouldn’t take too many 1 million dollar vehicles to contract with a shipping line to bring them back.
2,000 hulking MRAPs—mine-resistant ....”
they will send them back here to be used....or store them there until they need them....(?)
I hope the military has someone on hand to make certain this equipment is destroyed BTW. It would be tragic if it started showing up in Syria.
$7B sounds like a lot but at the current rate of QE that is less than 4 days deficit spending.
O*******bama wouldn't see it that way.
To be parked along the runways in Kabul, Kandahar and Bagram, next to the rusting Soviet equipment, which is probably sitting on top of 19th century era British equipment.
oh man! I wanna MRAP!!! who’d fight me for a parking space?
Just imagine the scrap value of the metals alone.
After WWII the Navy dropped brand new aircraft, fork lifts, bulldozers and million$ in other equipment into the ocean rather than bring them home to sell as surplus.
Most MRAPS won’t be coming home from Afghanistan
Apr. 18, 2013 - 12:55PM
" In recent years, the U.S. military has expanded its requests for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, a more agile competing technology."
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20130418/NEWS/304180021/Most-MRAPS-won-8217-t-coming-home-from-Afghanistan
Cash for Clunkers. Spurs economy. Environmental friendly. Won't be needed in Syria. /s
Couldn’t he give the equipment to Al Quaeda or the Taliban or some other sworn enemy of US? This would be a very efficient means of advancing the Administration agenda of promoting America’s downfall.
Probably really sending the stuff to AQ in Syria.
The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
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Sportsman's Guide could sell the stuff in three months.
The shame is that all that equipment could be brought home and used to kill US citizens. Now they’ll have to build new ones.
"JLTV mobility and transportability requirements give commanders the flexibility to traverse diverse terrain across the global operational spectrum, as well as providing the option of rotary wing airlift."
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/jltv.html
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/jltv/jltv-press-releases.html
And the Taliban move back in. Talk about waste....
We’re looking for partner nations throughout Afghanistan to provide these to them as a donation, as extra defense articles,” Faulkner said. “We plan on only keeping those that we believe are absolutely necessary to minimize our risk.”
According to the following article some 24,000 MRAPs were
produced and the production line is now closed.
http://nation.time.com/2012/10/02/the-mrap-brilliant-buy-or-billions-wasted/
Oct 2, 2012
The MRAP: Brilliant Buy, or Billions Wasted?
7 Billion? That would have paid for at least three more Obama Grand Tours of the World.
Yea.. of course... where in the world could we POSSIBLY EVER need one of these things again???? /sarc
"Despite ongoing budget uncertainty, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is on track to deliver a low-rate-initial product award to a single vendor in fiscal 2015, Army and Marine Corps officials say, DOD Buzz reports."
"The JLTV's technology development phase helped refine and mature requirements for the program and lower per-unit costs to $250,000 per vehicle."
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/2013/06/despite-sequester-joint-light.html
I can read it now: “These MRAP parts kits have been pre-tested and may show normal wear. We can’t say they are “new and unissued”, but they are darn well close to that. Includes everything but wheels, engine and armaments. Get yours now!
"The Pentagon is doing its best to make Mine Resistant Ambush Protected trucks - which saved thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan - part of the past. The Army plans to sell off 13,000 of its 21,000-vehicle fleet of MRAPs and mothball about 4,000 others, Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, told Congress this spring. It will keep about 4,000 MRAPs for use by troops who clear roads of improvised explosive devices."
"The Pentagon envisions the JLTV to be the best of many worlds: light enough for Marines to transport by helicopter, strong enough to protect troops and affordable enough to replace tens of thousands of Humvees. The base cost, without added armor, is $250,000 per truck, while basic MRAPs averaged $500,000. The Army wants 20,000 of them."
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/usatoday/article/2437661
"Please note: Heavy/Bulky shipping charges from distribution facility apply."
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