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 ...
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 ...
Beginning in May 2007 when the Secretary of Defense established the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle program as the highest priority of the Department of Defense acquisition program, Red River ...
His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
It took Davis years to get an MRAP ­­­vehicle from the federal government, but less than a week to lose it. Woodland was quick to cash in on what had become a political issue, and the vehicle is now ...
In a saner world, the Pentagon wouldn't throw itself a party to celebrate its purchase of thousands of bomb-resistant trucks it didn't want in the first place. The story of the Mine Resistant Ambush ...