Meet the newest vehicle in the arsenal of the San Diego Unified School District, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, more commonly known as an MRAP, or the US military’s answer to the ...

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. - To meet a critical warfighter need, Tobyhanna produced a month's worth of kits in just nine days. On Feb. 11, the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) ...

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 ...

The military credits its new crop of hulking armored vehicles with saving hundreds of soldiers' skins. But these Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) behemoths come with all kinds of problems, as ...

So how much does one of these new-fangled bomb-resistant "MRAP" trucks really cost? Depends on who you ask and what you count, of course. Production contracts for the roughly 12-ton "Category I" ...

Here are just a few facts about MRAPs, or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles: They feature V-shaped hulls and blast-resistant underbodies. The most recent models were designed to protect troops ...

Video has emerged showing a ground-level perspective of a Ukrainian T-72 tank that rolled over and crushed a Ukrainian Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle. Earlier footage of that ...

We live in a glorious country, America, where not only can police forces buy extremely armored vehicles, but they can equip themselves to the point where they are, for all and intents and purposes, ...

The Davis Police Department in 2014 received a $689,000 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, at no charge. After community opposition, Davis returned the vehicle, which was accepted by ...