MRAP survives 500lb ied

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MRAP survives 500lb ied

Postby munky73770 » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:37 am

Got this in an email today at work..... :eek: (first image edited for opsec)
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Re: MRAP survives 500lb ied

Postby SavageParrot » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:06 am

I betting they had the mother of all headaches though...
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Re: MRAP survives 500lb ied

Postby Sabres » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:14 am

would scare the absolute shit out of me

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Re: MRAP survives 500lb ied

Postby gowhitesox99 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:47 pm

uh yeah!!! me too. I get freaked sometimes walking around the back of the house before the motion light turns on for piss sakes. I'm like walking and waving my arms to get it to turn on.

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Re: MRAP survives 500lb ied

Postby Darknut » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:37 pm

Insurgents must be pissed.

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Re: MRAP survives 500lb ied

Postby Cleatus703 » Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:07 am

From what I hear, the one incident where a soldier died in a bomb explosion in a MRAP, the casualty was probably the result of the soldier in the turret being killed when the vehicle rolled over, rather than from direct blast effects. Those things are pretty impressive.

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