Buoyed by good reviews from the troops, combat-vehicle training has become a hot business for some Central Florida defense contractors. Full Article at Orlando Sentinel
DARPA in November 2009 awarded Mustang Technologies a contract to integrate Iron Curtain with its Crosshairs counter-shooter system for tests on an MRAP. Full Article at Science Fiction in the News
Editor’s note: Lt. Col. John Reynolds, commander of Task Force 2-28, was the only battalion commander from the 172nd who did not provide an interview to Stars and Stripes for the Welcome Home publication. Full Article at Stars and Stripes
This year, the number of casualties suffered by US troops in Afghanistan from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, was 255, at the time we went to press. Full Article at The National Newspaper
Their primary focus was just trying to kill everyone around that MRAP
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...
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
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.