With the new Bruce Willis epic, A Good Day to Die Hard, having racked up the highest gross at the box office over the weekend, it's easy to see one of the reasons why it's proving so popular: the MRAP ...
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 18, 2010) -- A Pentagon team is working with the Army Medical Command and BAE Systems to build a new Caiman Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Ambulance that offers a ...
Video has emerged showing a ground-level perspective of a Ukrainian T-72 tank that rolled over and crushed a Ukrainian Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle. Earlier footage of that ...
In “The MRAP Boondoggle,” Chris Rohlfs and Ryan Sullivan argue that mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles are a colossal waste of money. To be sure, the MRAP program is a big, almost irresistible ...
The military credits its new crop of hulking armored vehicles with saving hundreds of soldiers' skins. But these Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) behemoths come with all kinds of problems, as ...
TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. - To meet a critical warfighter need, Tobyhanna produced a month's worth of kits in just nine days. On Feb. 11, the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) ...
Here's a great first-person review of the MRAP from my good friend who posts as "Slab" on OpFor. In January, my team traded out our well-worn M1114 Up-armored HMMWV for a 4X4 JERRV, one of the models ...
Steve Ward is a retired Marine colonel and former Colorado state senator who sends me an e-mail when he spots a story about an MRAP — that would be a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle — being ...
Ah, the Heartland. Amber waves of grain, apple pie, and mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles. After all, assures Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer, "the United States of America has ...
The Davis Police Department in 2014 received a $689,000 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, at no charge. After community opposition, Davis returned the vehicle, which was accepted by ...