The same administration that said “armored vehicles” would look too offensive in Somalia. How many paid with their lives for that debacle?
Optics over safety and a few thousand Somali’s died for it as well as our spec ops guys.
Clinton was awful on military matters. Same story different chapter now.
There was a company that built a simple fuel tank fire suppression system.
It was essentially a flat dry-chem extinguisher. Any force big enough to punch through the extinguisher and rupture the fuel tank would have instantly opened the extinguisher and stifled a fire or explosion before it even got started.
Cheap, compact and easily bolted on to existing inventory.
The Pentagon Perfumed Princes rejected it. It’s only 80% effective.
Go to any National Cemetery or VA hospital. Count the combat vehicle burn victims and imagine that 8 out of 10 were never burned in the first place...