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 ...
YOLO (CBS13) — The debate over a military-style vehicle for the Yolo County Sheriff's Department has ended, for now. On Monday, the department released a statement saying its "decided against ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2007 - The Defense Department has let contracts for an additional 2,400 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, bringing the total number of the vehicles ordered to 8,800.
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) ...
The Pentagon is in the market for a scaled-down version of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, the super-sized trucks that are designed to withstand roadside bombs. The deadline for vehicle ...
A MRAP, or mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, received in 2014 through the 1033 military surplus program, sits Thursday morning March 21, 2019, outside the Weld County Sheriff’s Office at 1950 O ...
Fire, flying metal fragments and burning hot explosive materials could not stop them… despite being on the receiving end of a massive roadside bomb attack did not kill soldiers at times riding in the ...
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 ...