[blanknoone]

I believe I was saying something along the lines of, "If we want a cheap armored vehicle, we should design and build one, not try to turn the HMMWV into something it is not." This is but one of many reasons.

[af_vet_rr]

I believe I was saying something along the lines of, "If we want a cheap armored vehicle, we should design and build one, not try to turn the HMMWV into something it is not." This is but one of many reasons.

That's what happens when a bunch of bureaucrats design something in committee meetings instead of engineers designing something based on actual needs.

[B4Ranch]

"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.