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To: dandelion
Humvee Makers dispute Rumsfeld
155 posted on 12/10/2004 9:55:30 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: Austin Willard Wright
The information I posted just before yours seems to contradict the information in the thread you linked.

To spell it out, the bottleneck is not with the Humvee makers or modifiers, it's the armor manufacturers, both steel and ceramic (I'm not sure if there are shortages of Kevlar, polyethylene, and aluminum armor).

There is apparently only one company (Clifton) certified to heat treat steel to the Mil Specs. for armor plate, and not enough furnaces in America to produce the ceramic armor.

165 posted on 12/10/2004 12:07:04 PM PST by snopercod (Bigger government means clinton won. Less freedom means Osama won. Get it?)
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