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Textron gets order for armored vehicles
The Times-Picayune ^
| Saturday, May 01, 2004
| Bruce Alpert
Posted on 05/03/2004 2:20:16 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
Edited on 07/14/2004 1:00:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON -- With its Humvee vehicles coming under frequent attack in Iraq, the Army is placing a rush order for 28 new armored security vehicles to be built by Textron Marine and Land Systems in New Orleans.
The ASVs, each equipped with grenade launcher and machine gun, cost about $600,000 each.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Louisiana; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: asv; wheeledarmor
The
M1117 is a superior vehicle to the
M1114. Neither vehicle can survive a hit from a an
RPG-7V1
To: Cannoneer No. 4
It sounds like great news for one american company. Now we only need to stop outsourcing other military equipment as well.
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:32:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: archy; boxerblues; cavtrooper21; centurion316; colorado tanker; Darksheare; demlosers; ...
ping
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:33:02 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Bump for later.
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:36:22 PM PDT
by
Springman
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Surviving an RPG hit is something the M1 and M2/3 series has a hard time with as well, too. Good God' do some of the lost causes out there belive, really, that any mechanical vehice is impervious to HE? That thing sure looks a lot like a V 100 doesn't it?
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:38:32 PM PDT
by
gatorbait
(Yesterday, today and tomorrow......The United States Army)
To: cripplecreek
Actually, I'd be happy to buy some foreign vehicles if they were already built and could be bought in a hurry and shipped to Iraq.
Other countries outsource to us, too. Textron builds the Dingo under licese from Krauss-Maffei.
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:48:46 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
To: gatorbait
V100
ASV
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:56:21 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Isn't that made by Haliburton? /sarcasm off
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:57:53 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
To: Thud
About flipping time!
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posted on
05/03/2004 2:59:37 PM PDT
by
Dark Wing
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Shouldn't this be outsourced to another country?
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posted on
05/03/2004 3:01:07 PM PDT
by
O.C. - Old Cracker
(When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
*Snort*
The ASV, which had been killed for unknown reason, gets a second lease on life?
Cool.
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posted on
05/03/2004 3:07:27 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Fortune for the day: I call upon the gods of STERNO and MATCHLIGHT to take care of the evil DUers!)
To: gatorbait
V100 on a Convoy Break
We loved these machines. We ran convoys up and down hwy 13, also known as "Thunder Road".
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posted on
05/03/2004 3:10:16 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Not if we can build it here.
There may be some vehicles built overseas worth buying, like the Scarab.
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posted on
05/03/2004 3:20:06 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
To: cripplecreek
Now we only need to stop outsourcing other military equipment as well.
At Textron, with 30% of its workforce based outside the U.S.,… -
Textron website.
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:17:06 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
I was an ASV Team Leader/Commander in Iraq, I loved her, she treated me well, got me out of many bad situations and saved my butt many times. We are doing the right thing.
To: ParaGuardian
Thank you for your service to our country. Free Republic needs an ASV Subject Matter Expert.
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posted on
06/17/2004 2:38:27 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
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