The truck was a Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected truck (MRAP) – a 16-ton behemoth that came to be regarded as the soldier's lifeboat in Iraq, its V-shaped hull saving lives by deflecting the ...

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Explore the incredible world of MRAP trucks, the military machines that conquer landmines and IEDs with unmatched resilience. Discover their history, design, and their many roles beyond the ...

The Pentagon gave John Thomas, sheriff of Page County, Va., a gigantic MRAP — meant to withstand roadside bombs in Iraq — in May. As he drives through the Shenandoah Valley, Thomas says he did ...

The Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) capability is not an anomaly limited to the past decade of unconventional war, but probably will be needed anytime our Army is called upon around the globe.

It costs about $12,000 to crunch and dispose of a single MRAP here, said Mark E. Wright, a Defense Department spokesman. To ship one back to the U.S. and rebuild it to current standards would cost ...

MRAP is an unusual program that involves rolling purchases of a wide range of vehicle types, all meeting the same basic mobility and protection requirements. The requirements do not specify how a ...

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 ...

They're a cohesive group of Soldiers known simply as the MRAP team. In military parlance, they function as a personal security detachment, or PSD, on ground movements. MRAP -- or mine-resistant ...

For example, it gave one blanket the same weight it gave one MRAP. But these items are not equal—an MRAP is not a blanket. We should also be realistic about the ability of training to solve the ...

A video captures a Roshel Senator MRAP, damaged yet functional, evacuating injured soldiers in Donetsk, showcasing its ...