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- Plan calls for more armor on new combat vehicles
- QUANTICO, Va. -- The Marine general in charge of the program to send new armored vehicles to Iraq says the Pentagon has developed "a solution" to protect the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected trucks, or MRAPs, from the deadliest type of armor-piercing roadside bomb, called explosively formed projectiles, or EFPs. ...
- Research articles 2007-10-02
- Pentagon wants to bulk up vehicles
- WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is rushing to develop added protection for its new Mine Resistant Armor Protected MRAP vehicles from the deadliest roadside bombs, military contract records show. A Pentagon solicitation released Monday calls on contractors to detail their armor solutions "as soon as possible." The...
- Research articles 2007-08-30
- Letter: Add-on armortooheavy for new vehicles
- WASHINGTON -- Armor intended to protect the Pentagon's new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles against the most powerful roadside bombs is too heavy to use, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The add-on armor known as Frag Kit 6 could overwhelm all MRAPs...
- Research articles 2007-07-17
- MRAPs can't stop newest weapon
- WASHINGTON -- New military vehicles that are supposed to better protect troops from roadside explosions in Iraq aren't strong enough to withstand the latest type of bombs used by insurgents, according to Pentagon documents and military officials. As a result, the vehicles need more armor added...
- Research articles 2007-05-31
- Humvee doors can trap troops
- WASHINGTON -- The Army is fixing the doors of every armored Humvee in combat in Iraq because they can jam shut during an attack and trap soldiers inside, Pentagon records and interviews show. The door trouble, the latest in a series of problems with the Humvees...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Humvee deaths on the rise despite armor upgrades
- WASHINGTON -- Although the Pentagon has strengthened the armor on more than 50,000 Humvees and other military vehicles throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, roadside bombs have killed more U.S. troops this year, Pentagon records show. Most are dying in their Humvees, the workhorse vehicles the military scrambled to armor as...
- Research articles 2006-05-03
- Troops to Get Vests With Side Protection
- U.S. troops serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other dangerous areas will soon receive revamped armored vests that provide more side protection, senior officiate announced last month. The vest changes are designed to protect service members from shrapnel fragments, especially those who operate gun turrets atop vehicles, Maj. Gen. Steven Speaks,...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Most Marines killed in Iraq could have been saved by body armor
- WASHINGTON AFP — A secret Pentagon study reportedly found that as many as 80 percent of Marines killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. "Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon...
- Research articles 2006-01-06
- Pentagon looking at replacing Humvees
- The Pentagon is accelerating its search for a replacement for the Humvee after two years of roadside bombs and suicide attacks in Iraq that have killed hundreds of soldiers in a vehicle that wasn't designed for front-line urban combat. Before the war in Iraq, a Humvee successor wasn't...
- Research articles 2005-08-24
- Humvee vulnerabilities raise doubts on future
- WASHINGTON -- Even the most heavily armored Humvees may be inadequate to protect U.S. troops from ever-changing insurgent tactics, the Marine Corps' second-ranking general told lawmakers Tuesday. New vehicle designs, however, would take years to develop. The House Armed Services Committee questioned Gen. William Nyland, assistant commandant of the...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- The invention militia: amateur engineers are asking what they can do for the Pentagon
- On a recent, chilly day in upstate New York, I found myself riding shotgun in a black Chevy Trailblazer with a small arsenal of assault weapons in the trunk. The driver, Dave Warren, a 39-year-old Vietnamese-born ex-Marine and veteran of Desert Storm, was a man on a mission. An inventor...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Gas Pains
- The Department of Defense now has about 27,000 vehicles in Iraq—and every one of them gets lousy gas mileage. To power that fleet the Defense Logistics Agency must move huge quantities of fuel into the country in truck convoys from Kuwait, Turkey, and Jordan. All that fuel gives American soldiers...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Navy to Face Tough Issues As Strategic Review Takes Shape
- The Navy will be tackling a daunting list of questions regarding its future force structure and strategy as the Pentagon's long-term strategic review takes shape in the coming months.The Pentagon this year will conduct the Quadrennial Defense Review QDR, a major reassessment of the military's strategy, forces, capabilities and risks...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- 'Hillbilly Armor'
- Predators know to hunt the weakest animal in the herd. So do the Iraqi insurgents. It is an essential truth about the Iraq war that's ingrained in soldiers like Pvt. Daniel Rocco, a Humvee gunner with the Second Battalion of the 82nd Field Artillery Regiment. Rocco's unit is an artillery...
- Research articles 2004-12-20
- Pentagon works to send more armor
- WASHINGTON -- Iraqi insurgents are growing more effective, and it will take time to get U.S. troops the $4 billion in armor they need for protection, defense officials said Wednesday. "This is not Wal- Mart," one general said. Officials rejected growing criticism that armor shortages in Iraq reflect...
- Research articles 2004-12-16
- Army steps up production of armored Humvees, trucks.
- By Stephen J. Hedges, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16--WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials, confronting a growing furor that has thrown the military on the defensive, have begun firing back at those questioning whether it has supplied enough armored vehicles...
- Research articles 2004-12-16
- Regiment fortifies armor
- The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment will be even more armored when it goes to war in Iraq early next year. The regiment is undergoing a crash program to add armor to 500 wheeled vehicles now at Fort Carson designed for use away from battle lines. Prefabricated kits...
- Research articles 2004-12-11
- Military fires back on armor
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration moved swiftly to quell criticism from troops Thursday by outlining plans to protect all military vehicles used in Iraq. But two companies under contract to the Pentagon said their offers to boost production went unheeded. President Bush said he understood the troops' concerns and...
- Research articles 2004-12-10
- Chinks In Our Armor
- Tom Christie was worried. It was the fall of 2003, and the Pentagon's chief weapons tester had noted problems with the Army's pride and joy, the new Stryker Armored Vehicle. The $4 billion program was seen as the vanguard of the lighter, high-speed Army of the future. But even with...
- Research articles 2004-05-10
- The Human Cost
- The inaugural mission of the 1st Cavalry's 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment was, in its humble way, a bid for hearts and minds. It was to safely dispose of Iraqi sewage. Having arrived in Iraq in late March, a 19-man patrol from the battalion, traveling in four Humvees, had just...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
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