Armored military vehicles have been spotted operating near the San Luis Port of Entry near Yuma as part of an ongoing joint ...

In the latest airstrikes Thursday, the U.S. Central Command said that a mix of fighters and armed drones destroyed one of the heavily-armored Mine Resistant-Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that ...

Morrell said the MRAP hit a "very large, deep-buried IED" and that the "force of the explosion blew the MRAP into the air and caused it to overturn." Despite the size of the explosion, he said ...

But one soldier died early this year when his MRAP hit a very large, deeply buried roadside bomb and overturned. The soldier was the gunner, and he was sitting atop the MRAP, so it was not ...

Details of deaths related to the MRAPs are not readily available. But one soldier died early this year when his MRAP hit a very large, deeply buried roadside bomb and overturned. The soldier was ...

The Army recently awarded an $8 million contract to equip MRAP (mine resistant ambush protected ... blasts incoming rockets before they can hit the vehicle. If the system works, it could go ...

He called it the "gold standard" of force protection. "We had an incident the other day where an MRAP was hit with a 300-pound charge right under the engine," Conway said. "Now, I mention the size ...

On a vehicle hit by a mine, that means a survivability rate of about 95 percent. The concept has been around for almost four decades. Pollard says MRAP vehicles started in South Africa.

What makes an MRAP so much different from a Humvee is the ... When a Humvee rolled over an IED, the force of the blast would hit the underside (that lay horizontal to the ground) at full strength.

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