U.S. suffers first death in new armored truck
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The U.S. military has suffered a first fatality in one of a new fleet of heavily armored vehicles designed to protect soldiers from roadside bombs, the military said on Tuesday.
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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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Military officials said Thursday they were working hard to upgrade the armor on Army vehicles in Iraq, a day after a soldier had pressed
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Officials fear a rising death toll in what is said to be the first ever deadly crash of a magnetic-levitation train
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Truck drivers &#151; the people who deliver our food, cars and clothing &#151; have one of the most dangerous jobs in America &#151; accounting for nearly 15 percent of U.S. work-related deaths. And that's only counting the accidents.
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Stifling heat and blowing desert sand has taken a heavy toll on the U.S. main battle tank's engine.
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A soldier killed over the weekend south of Baghdad was the first American casualty in a roadside bomb attack on a newly introduced, heavily armored vehicle, a military spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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BARIKAW, Afghanistan  -- An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen Sunday. As many as 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape, and injured Afghans said the Americans fired on civilian cars and pedestrians as they sped away....
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Insurgents exploded a truck carrying chlorine gas canisters Wednesday &#151; the second such "dirty" chemical attack in two days &#151; while a U.S. official said ground fire apparently forced the downing of a Black Hawk helicopter. All nine aboard the aircraft were rescued.
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A new combat truck with a V-shaped bottom designed to withstand blasts from roadside bombs is performing with such success in Iraq that the U.S. military is pressing a Wisconsin company and others to churn out hundreds more in the coming months.
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A U.S. official died after a shooting  attack on Tuesday on his vehicle in Khartoum in which his  Sudanese driver was also killed, U.S. and Sudanese officials  said.
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A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion, the military said.
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A U.S. soldier was killed in a truck accident north of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
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ONE US soldier was killed and three were injured today in a hit-and-run accident in southern Kuwait that is being investigated, the US army and Kuwaiti security sources said.
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At least 37 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives blew up after crashing into a pickup truck and catching fire.
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Baghdad, Iraq -- A US Army supply unit whose members refused a dangerous fuel delivery mission last month has now fitted its vehicles with armor to protect against attack, the military said Saturday.
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Former Steelers offensive lineman Justin Strzelczyk led state troopers on a 40-mile chase on the New York State Thruway in Herkimer, NY, before dying in a fiery, head-on collision with a tanker truck carrying corrosive acid Thursday.