Famous for saving lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s blast-deflecting, improvised explosive device (IED)-stopping Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAP) are headed to Ukraine. The ...

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 ...

MRAP vehicles–mine resistant ambush protected–are all the rage, and for good reason. The Pentagon plans to purchase as many as 8,000 of the vehicles, from as many as nine different suppliers, for ...

In “The MRAP Boondoggle,” Chris Rohlfs and Ryan Sullivan argue that mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles are a colossal waste of money. To be sure, the MRAP program is a big, almost irresistible ...

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Last summer, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the Pentagon's Joint Program Office for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (JPO-MRAP), a $45 billion program to design, manufacture, and ...

In the hazardous world of military transport, a new vehicle has to show what it's made of in a storm of bullets and blasts before it gets the nod to carry our brave soldiers. Roshel Defense Solutions, ...

Fire, flying metal fragments and burning hot explosive materials could not stop them… despite being on the receiving end of a massive roadside bomb attack did not kill soldiers at times riding in the ...