VIDEO REPORT: NAVISTAR GOES TO WAR (new Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected MV)

Crain's Chicago Business . com ^ | 11/19/2007 | Crain's

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Navistar trucks are making the move from the highway to the battlefield with a mine- and ambush resistant military vehicle. Take a closer look at the new min-resistant, ambush-protected military vehicle.

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From hotel bar to the Pentagon, exec drove truckmaker to $3 bil

Proving that it could churn out trucks fast became a critical asset for Navistar in a bigger competition for the MRAPs. International Military was one of the first bidders to submit a truck for testing, producing a prototype in just four months. The truck features an engine and chassis used on International dump trucks.

Navistar won the first of three MRAP contracts on May 31 (3,000 trucks). In three months, it began delivering trucks (450). Nearly 100 (95) of them are on the ground in Iraq today.

Bolted design lends itself to mass assembly.

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[PAR35]

They also made one of the first SUVs.

[ari-freedom]

that guy looks like he is also mine resistant, ambush protected

[Doctor Raoul]

Bolted design lends itself to mass assembly.

What? No rivits? Wonder how the bolts hold up under attack? Do they shear off and become deadly?

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

If they are taking out our M-1 Abrams tanks with those Iranian EFPs, It’s only a matter of time before these puppies are compromised. If you want it truly mine-resistant it probably can’t be mobile. I imagine you could take some belt armor from a Missouri clas battlewagon and strap IT on, bit it would only be able to traverse deeply hardened road surfaces.

[papasmurf]

This may be much bigger than most can imagine.

Currently, the trucking industry is in it’s worst year ever. For example...For Class 8 Trucks, the largest road going trucks...in Sep06 the entire industry sold 23499. In Sep07, that number was 9677.

Ford is suing Navistar, the maker of the Ford Power Stroke HEUI Diesel motor, and many OEM smaller (Class 3-6) truck makers have come out with their own engines, replacing the Navistar built motors of previous years.

Yes, this can be big for Navistar.

[farlander]

Mine resistant means the crew would live, it doesn’t mean the truck would just drive off. The bottom of the truck is V shaped in order to deflect the blast force, and it does that very well. The M1A1 abrams is not so designed, but - I’ve yet to hear of an Abrams being lost to IEDs. That’d have been very much publicized by the traitors in the MSM. Do you have a link ?

[dljordan]

I’d love to drive that critter down the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. Take that hippies!

[Leisler]

Google is our friend.

“On November 27, 2004 an Abrams tank was badly damaged from the detonation of an extremely powerful improvised explosive device (IED). The IED consisted of three M109A6 155 mm shells, with a total explosive weight of 34.5 kg, that detonated next to the tank. The tank’s driver received lethal injuries from shrapnel. The other three crew members were able to escape.

On December 25, 2005 another M1A2 was disabled by an explosively formed penetrator IED. The IED penetrated through a road wheel, and hit the fuel tank, which left the tank burning near central Baghdad. One crew member, Spc. Sergio Gudino, died in the attack.

On June 4, 2006 two of the four soldiers in an Abrams crew died in Baghdad, when an IED detonated near their M1A2.

[Leisler]

The sad thing is that this is forty year old technology.

It is a real failure of the Army and defense department to be so late to outside Fulda Gap warfare. A warfare that has been in the news papers.

The Army almost had itself destroyed in Vietnam and the put it’s counter insurgence lessoned learned in a concrete box and dumped in a three mile trench off the Virgina beach.

Pathetic.