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To: yooper
They intend that Stryker replace the Hummer, so you better be damn sure that it won't get more people killed because people think they can hid in it. No vehicle, including the MIAI is going to survive a well-timed IED.
24 posted on 12/13/2003 10:17:03 PM PST by RobbyS (XP)
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To: RobbyS
They intend that Stryker replace the Hummer, so you better be damn sure that it won't get more people killed because people think they can hid in it. No vehicle, including the MIAI is going to survive a well-timed IED.

The good news is that we've developed a 5-million dollar Stryker mine countermeasures vehicle variant, which has heavy rollers stout enough to set of an antitank mine and withstand the blast of most such devices.

The bad news is that the Israelis report the appearance of a $25 time fuze for the Russian antitank mines with a 15 second delay, triggered by such mine rollers, then detonating the 20-pound mine's explosive charge under the parent vehicle a quarter of a minute later.

Back to the drawing board....


43 posted on 12/13/2003 11:36:15 PM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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