The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center and the U.S. Army Evaluation Center won a top Army acquisition award in the \'Equipping and Sustaining our Soldiers' Systems' category at the 2008 U.S. Army ...

SEALY, Texas, March 26 (UPI) -- BAE Systems has won a new $15 million MRAP contract modification from the U.S. Marine Corps. The contract is to provide test support for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected ...

Earlier this month, SpaceX carried out a successful test of the Crew Dragon's Launch Abort System (LAS), which would carry the capsule to safety in the event of an emergency. This is no doubt a great ...

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. (March 27, 2012) -- During the worst years of the Iraqi insurgency, the mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicle was developed to protect American Soldiers from the ...

WARRENVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As one of the leading producers of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, Navistar Defense, LLC will compete to supply the next generation of MRAPs with a ...

May 5, 2009 The success of MRAP (Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected) vehicles in saving lives from IED (Improvised Explosive Device) and ambush attacks has seen the US Marine Corp, (the division of the ...

WARREN, Mich., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Prototype U.S. MRAP vehicles equipped with the first fully integrated suite of radios, satellite and other networking systems are ready for testing. The U.S. Army, ...

Fire, flying metal fragments and burning hot explosive materials could not stop them… despite being on the receiving end of a massive roadside bomb attack did not kill soldiers at times riding in the ...

Are Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles the answer to Explosively Formed Penetrators, the armor-piercing bombs that are becoming increasingly common in Iraq? The vast majority of IEDs ...

In “The MRAP Boondoggle,” Chris Rohlfs and Ryan Sullivan argue that mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles are a colossal waste of money. To be sure, the MRAP program is a big, almost irresistible ...

In a saner world, the Pentagon wouldn't throw itself a party to celebrate its purchase of thousands of bomb-resistant trucks it didn't want in the first place. The story of the Mine Resistant Ambush ...