Roshel Smart Armored Vehicles has rolled out its Senator Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored fighting vehicle at the CANSEC show in Ottawa. Based on the Ford F-550 pickup truck, it's been ...
Warfare is often a battle against change, and the U.S. military is always attempting to stay ahead of, or at least on top of, the curve. A fairly new yet significant player in this struggle is the ...
WASHINGTON – A soldier killed over the weekend south of Baghdad was the first American death in a roadside bomb attack on a newly introduced, heavily armored vehicle, military officials said Tuesday.
Are Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles the answer to Explosively Formed Penetrators, the armor-piercing bombs that are becoming increasingly common in Iraq? The vast majority of IEDs ...
ARAB JABOUR, Iraq — From the blast and the high, thin plume of white smoke above the tree line, it looked and sounded like any other attack. The bare details were, sadly, routine enough: A gunner was ...
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan-- With every step and mile traveled, Soldiers in Afghanistan face the threat of improvised explosive devices. To combat the threat Joint Program Office Mine Resistant ...
Navistar Defense recently showcased its International MaxxPro Dash Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) ambulance variant at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium and Exhibition.
This is the story SSG Pat Caldwell wrote and distributed on the military public affairs network, DVIDS: By SSG Patrick Caldwell JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – Death hovered behind a car window packed with ...
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Faced with an epidemic of deadly roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military officials ordered up a fleet of V-hulled 16-ton armored behemoths in 2007 to help protect ...