To: blanknoone
"If we want a cheap armored vehicle, we should design and build one, not try to turn the HMMWV into something it is not."
No such vehicle has ever been designed. Cheap and armored will not smoothly fit in the same engineering design.
The idea to get the military to buy anything today is to come out with a stripped down model that is cheap. This will encourage them to buy it.
Then when all the modifications have been completed and it now weighs and costs three times the original econo model, they have what they were looking for at twice the price of the intended vehicle.
Government efficency at its best. We can't hope for any better.
14 posted on
03/15/2004 11:57:09 AM PST by
B4Ranch
(Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out.)
To: B4Ranch
No such vehicle... See the SISU. Cheaper, and more capable, than the armored Humvees. And they aren't falling apart.
15 posted on
03/15/2004 12:01:46 PM PST by
blanknoone
(At least the Spanish socialist party call themselves socialists.)
To: B4Ranch
Textron Systems, Wilmington, Mass., announced in late January that its Marine and Land Operations, based in New Orleans, was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM), to manufacture the Armored Security Vehicle (ASV) for the U.S. Army. The contract was valued at over
$11.4 million and is for the production of 20 Armored Security Vehicles (ASV).11.4/20 = $5,700,000 a piece
18 posted on
03/15/2004 2:34:43 PM PST by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.)
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