Comments on: More on MRAP-ATV

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By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:26:12 +0000

Saturday night, my son and 4 others were hit by a IED in Afghanistan. The explosion sent the mrap up in the air, flipping it where it landed on the roof. All men were pulled out of it safely and everyone survived. Whoever designed this, thank you from my entire being for saving our son and men.
Richard

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:52:25 +0000

Why is the DoD wasting their time on another competition when they could have had the Cheetah a year ago? Now that the Cheetah has a version with independent suspension and comes equipped to defeat EFP’s what’s the delay? Waiting on Navistar to come up with another inadequate “or equal” version while the guys suffer in the field? Looks like it’s going to be another inquiry after the fact just like it was with the Cougar and the MRAP solution in Iraq. More hand slaps and nothing significant later on. Why is the Army borrowing 400 Cougars from the Marines to use in Afghanistan when all they have bought is the MaxxPro? They will use the Cougars until Navistar can get the MaxxPro Dash to the field, only to find out what their deficiencies are after they hit the field. Tsk, tsk.

By: jerry van ee

jerry van ee — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:34:36 +0000

FRPT’s Cheetah is the answer.

By: Sven Ortmann

Sven Ortmann — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:23:29 +0000

Slat armor doesn’t work well if the RPG uses a good fuze. It’s no reliable long-term solution, heavy and bulky.

By: CSI

CSI — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:42:56 +0000

I thought putting a wire or similar cage around a vehicle offers good protection against RPGs, without adding too much weight.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:18:42 +0000

Do you have/can you give a SIPR url to the info on the RPG issue? Obviously, one would have to have SIPR access to get it, so posting _that_ should be legit. Or just contact me on my email.
Thanks.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:14:31 +0000

Sorry Wes…we’re going to migrate to a much more modern version of blogware soon that will help take care of this spam problem. But I’ll do a better job of deleting them in the meantime.

By: conlad

conlad — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:52:15 +0000

Isn’t that what Strykers, Bradleys, et al; are for? Aren’t they APCs? One thing is to make your trucks for your logistics routes resistant to mines and IEDs that are part of a COIN situation, but Afghanistan seems to have devolved into a full combat zone, and that’s exactly what the APCs were made of.
Also, it sounds highly impractical to turn your trucks into mini-tanks, or if that’s the intention, grab the Bradley or the Stryker and make a logistics version of it. Would be much cheaper than shaping the JLTV into a truck version or making an all new model, or so I think.
Last, leave your MRAPs in Iraq and bring everything else to Afghanistan. Your country should have enough power to defeat the Taliban, but so far it seems you guys have been reluctant to use it.
Just my two cents.

By: pfcem

pfcem — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:35:36 +0000

Thank you Christian & Greg.
This is exactly the kind of discussion that SHOULD have happened before we rushed into buying MRAPs in the 1st place.
MAYBE then instead of a bunch of limited use, over priced “bank vaults” we would have something that could be used for more than just running up & down the roads of Iraq…