To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The problem isn't armor.
The problem isn't the HumVees. Which were never meant to be armored, anyway.
The problem is the wong vehicle!
Ship all of those M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers (That were thought to be obsolete and outdated during Vietnam, yet used in Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom) BACK to Iraq!
To take over riding herd on convoys!
Jack.
16 posted on
12/11/2004 10:57:43 AM PST by
Jack Deth
(When In Doubt.... Empty The Magazine!)
To: Jack Deth
17 posted on
12/11/2004 10:59:34 AM PST by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Jack Deth
Good evening.
"The problem isn't armor."
That's true. The up-armoring will save lives but any armor can be defeated. The trick is to make the bomb-makers stop making bombs. The Marines did that in Falluja and our guys will do it in all the hot spots. Until the job is done the armored hummers will have to do.
Michael Frazier
62 posted on
12/11/2004 5:28:34 PM PST by
brazzaville
(No surrender,no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: Jack Deth
I wholeheartedly agree. It is a great weapons platform. 3 .50 cals can be mounted on it. Or, 2 .50's and a 106 recoilless along side the cupola. Or, even a mini-gun in the cupola.
As far as mines are concerned. In 'Nam they were vulnerable. But, as fighting machines, they were the best and feared.
68 posted on
12/11/2004 8:35:24 PM PST by
Parmy
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