Pace of Armored Vehicle Production Debated
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Description: President Bush says military personnel in Iraq are right to question whether they&#39;re getting the best possible equipment, but the White House insists armored vehicles are being produced as fast as possible.
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Â· New demands on troops put pressure on projectsÂ· MoD denies combat training is being cut
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A Pentagon spending spree aims to replace the vulnerable Humvee with more than 6,000 mine-resistant ambush-protection vehicles, or MRAPs, just as a stopgap. Then comes a different bruiser in 2012. In Danger Room.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 Their line of tan Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles creeps through another Baghdad afternoon. At this pace, an excruciating slowness, they strain to see everything, hoping the next manhole cover, the next rusted barrel, does not hide another bomb. A few bullets pass overhead,...
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Inadequate armored protection for military vehicles in Iraq is a festering problem that has contributed to many US deaths and casualties.
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President George W. Bush said Thursday that concerns expressed by US soldiers in Kuwait a day earlier about having inadequately armored vehicles for their missions in Iraq &quot;are being addressed.
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The Army's new medium-weight armored vehicle, the Stryker, weighs so much that it curtails the range of C-130 military cargo aircraft that carry it and under certain conditions make it impossible for the planes to take off, a new report for Congress found.
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The military is ordering more lightweight armor developed in Ohio that protects troops in Humvees from automatic weapons fire and grenades without slowing the vehicles.
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'Aggressor' could ease US forces' thirst for fuel The US Army is funding the development of a prototype military hybrid vehicle operating on similar principles to the groundbreaking Toyota Prius.â¦
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What the Bush administration had hoped would be a triumphant achievement is clouded by doubts, even within the Pentagon, about whether a missile defense system that is on its way to costing more than $100 billion will work.
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The Army's multibillion-dollar modernization program, the Future Combat System, faces serious challenge this year.
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WASHINGTON -- Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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The Bush administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment â newly authorized for export to Chinese companies â could instead end up helping China modernize its military.
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The United States has satisfied about 70 percent of the military&#39;s combat armored vehicle requirements in the Middle East and surrounding regions.
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ABERDEEN, Maryland  - New armored vehicles that give extra protection to U.S. troops in Iraq are becoming symbolic targets for insurgents, the top military officer in charge of acquiring the vehicles said on Friday.
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Military officials said Thursday they were working hard to upgrade the armor on Army vehicles in Iraq, a day after a soldier had pressed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on the subject. President Bush said, "The concerns expressed are being addressed."