MRAPs Displayed on Aberdeen Proving Ground

Stephen Eisel · Post by **Stephen Eisel** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:31 pm

I hope that this vehicle begins saving lives in Iraq.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsart ... x?id=47178

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsart ... x?id=47093

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Aug. 24, 2007 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ A team of test operators and mechanics here gave members of the media and other visitors a firsthand look today at the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, which is currently being tested on its automotive quality and ability to protect servicemembersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ lives.

ryan costa · Post by **ryan costa** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:22 am

it is a low-capital war. it is a human intensive war. I mean, the part of the war that is after the previous part of the war we got victoried.

these MRAPs are half a million dollars each and go through gas like gatorade.

for the price of an MRAP we could be shipping the Iraqis 50 pick up trucks with a few armor plating walls in the beds. They could drive in small convoys with six guys in the back to shoot in all directions with machine guns. It is a human intensive security effort. Iraqis work cheap. The insurgency is not a capital intensive insurgency. It is a human intensive insurgency.

Stephen Eisel · Post by **Stephen Eisel** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNL5V-3_yg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDu2VEfbmwc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjDKKo6Ips

Jeff Endress · Post by **Jeff Endress** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:38 am

I hope that by the time they have approved this vehicle, and produced enough of them that they could make a difference, that we'll no longer be in Iraq. Most assuredly it would save the lives of our servicemen (and women) to get them out of harm's way....

Jeff