QRQ30, please don't take this as a heated discussion as the written word on the internet doesn't allow the true tone of a conversation and can be misinterpeted. But, I'm a pretty matter of fact guy and that's how I discuss things, so sometimes I come off kind of "gruff".
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I was referring to the media making a big thing about troops rummaging through trash piles to find scrap metal to reinforce the floor boards
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Gottcha and I know where your comming from. When our guys starting doing the "Joe Dirt" armor applique to the GMVs, our team didn't because the stuff didn't add any protection from IEDs and it just slowed down our GMVs (speed was our greatest friend , there and gone before they knew you were there).
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I agree with Rumsfeld: you go to war with what you have, not with what you wish you had. R&D is constantly 5 to 10 years ahead of production.
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I agree with this point also, I lived thru the Clinton era military (insert Shelton "Do more with less" mantra here) and saw the US ARMY get bled dry from the Bosnia and Kosovo rotations while budgets were cut (there's a reason why we had a national budget surplus). This is why the main manufacture has had to ramp up production from 15 UAHMMWV a month to 450. There was a excellent brief on the armor issue on C-SPAN this week, very informative. Fortunately, we have the right people from the JCS to the Commander in Chief who will and have gave this military what it needs to fight and win the shooting wars we are now in.
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I'd bet Cearar's legionaires would have loved to have Hummvs.
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I'm sure the Romans would have, if they had been around and especially if the Carthaginians had had IEDs.
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I am wondering if a barrage frequency generator/transmitter could be used to pre-maturely detonate the devices.
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I have seen the presentation of this kit, I won't go into specifics on it here, but while it offers a narrow usage anti-IED tool, it also has quite a bit of negative aspects to friendly forces also.
Sits back and takes a draw off the keg-o-rator.
**edited to correct some spelling errors**