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The coalition improves the armour and protection of its vehicles and the Taliban makes bigger and better IEDs. So far, it’s difficult to say who’s winning. The troops hate these vehicles. They’re underpowered, crowded and uncomfortable for the crews and very difficult to manoeuvre particularly in the na...
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Right now we have the money in the budget I believe for 5,000 or 6,000 MRAP all-terrain vehicles. With the additional forces that are being sent in, we are probably going to recommend increasing that number to protect those troops to about 10,000
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It handles really well. Some of those parts [in the road course] an MRAP would have gotten stuck in. They solved these problems with the M-ATV.
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Unlike MRAP, which we basically bought off the shelf and tested as we fielded it, we are designing [the joint light tactical vehicle] from the start with a focus on reliability and maintainability and commonality
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The original MRAP program was the first major defense procurement program to go from concept to full-scale industrial production in less than a year since World War II
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It’s a pretty basic countermeasure ... We recognize the IED as a problem. We countered with the MRAP, which has saved a lot of lives, and the enemy looks at that on the battlefield and says, ‘How can I counter the MRAP?’ And his solution is a bigger explosive.
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Our history of support for the MRAP program ranges from designing and developing three MRAP variants, to supplying critical components on every MRAP platform, including -- with the Plasan contract -- the M-ATV
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That was one of the lessons learned from the original MRAP program
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I've seen more desperation here than I've seen anywhere in my career ... desperate to leave (Afghanistan) or fix the situation or not want to get back into that MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle) after getting blown up.
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The traditional MRAP was having real problems ... off road in Afghanistan ... And clearly we have to do a lot of work off road. And these new vehicles will provide our forces the ability to travel more safely off road - certainly off paved roads - than they would have been able to do with other vehicles...
