“As a father of a Marine KIA due to an IED that was in an unarmored Humvee I’m not pleased that more isn’t being done.”
My condolences, and profound respect for your son and family.
I don’t know what’s right here. There’s probably another side to why we don’t roll them out faster. There must be some kind of tipping point where resources devoted to IED defence would save more lives if applied to offense, but I don’t know why expediting 10 thousand more of these million dollar MRAPs wouldn’t make sense. If nothing else, it would revive Detroit.
Other countries in the world have built good fighting vehicles..Is there anything already developed that is better and cheaper than the MRAP ?...If so, why didn’t the Pentagon buy these?..
Same with other military equipment...Screw the MILSPECS..If another country has a better mousetrap, then buy the thing and get it over to our troops asap...