updated Wed. June 19, 2024
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Madison.com
April 2, 2018
The Madison Police Department plans to return its mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle. It has purchased a smaller vehicle to replace it. ... “The MRAP we got from the military, but you can't go down to the auto parts store and get spare parts for it,” Wahl said. “As things break down or as there'sÃâà...
Duluth News Tribune
March 24, 2018
Members of the Superior Police Department's Emergency Response Team stand behind a mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle during the execution of arrest and search warrants in May 2017. The department will soon purchase a new armored vehicle to replace the MRAP. (Jed CarlsonÃâà...
WDIO
March 22, 2018
"The purpose (of the MRAP) of course is to protect police officers in high risk situations." said Superior Mayor Jim Paine. However, 47,000 pound MRAP or Mine-Resistant Ambush Protection vehicle will be soon be replaced with a new set of wheels. This week, Superior City Council approved for the policeÃâà...
Army Recognition
March 18, 2018
In September 2017, during DSEI, the International Defense Exhibition in London, the Company IAG (International Armored Group) based in United Arab Emirates has unveiled its Guardian Xtreme Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle in 4x4 and 6x6 configurations, a new evolution in theÃâà...
KXLH Helena News
March 14, 2018
“You train like you fight,” says Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ryan Schock of Kalispell. During a training exercise this week, members of the 495th Combat Service Sustainment Battalion were turned upside down and sideways in a mock Mine Resistant Ambush Protect Vehicle (MRAP), mounted on large gimbals.
The Drive
March 7, 2018
It's still not clear if heavier vehicles, such as an up-armored Humvee or a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) truck would have necessarily changed the outcome of the incident, which reportedly involved dozens of enemy fighters in their own trucks and armed with heavy machine guns and rocketÃâà...
The Michigan Daily
March 6, 2018
LSA senior Zoe Proegler, co-president of the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, said MRAP, which was founded in September 2016 when many images of refugees from Syria were being shared online, focuses their efforts on volunteering with refugees in the area, and advocacy and education eventsÃâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
February 5, 2018
Among the convoy can be identified armored scout cars, mine-resistant vehicles (MRAP), armored personnel carriers, special utility vehicles, fuel tankers and military-grade lorries. Overall, it appears that the Turkish Army has moved a mechanized reconnaissance battalion along with a military policingÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
December 20, 2017
The Slovenian Armed Forces presented the prototype of the upgraded Cougar 6x6 Category II mine-resistant ambush protected joint explosive ordnance disposal rapid response vehicle (MRAP-JERRV) in Ljubljana on 14 December. The vehicle has received various weapon mounts and ammunition racks,Ãâà...
Washington Technology
November 30, 2017
ManTech International has kept the largest recompete in its portfolio by winning a potential five-year, $847 million task order to support the Army's fleet of Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. This award extends ManTech's 14 years of operational, engineering and logistics services on MRAPÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
September 14, 2017
The U.S. Department of Defense's 1033 Program allows federal and state law enforcement agencies to acquire DoD property including MRAP's. The program was initiated in 1991, and originally only intended to be used in counter-drug efforts. Congress then passed the National Defense Authorization ActÃâà...
Task & Purpose
June 27, 2017
In Massachusetts, a local police squad is gearing up for war — even though the only shots they're likely to encounter in their campaign against their fearsome suburban foe are of Jagermeister. Twenty-year-old Ian Kessel is so dedicated to the party life that police have stationed a 19-ton, $658,000 MRAPÃâà...
Miami New Times
May 18, 2017
The Coral Gables Police Department, which patrols one of the safest, richest parts of Miami-Dade County, inexplicably had two military-grade, tank-like armored trucks called Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) trucks. The department got the truck from the U.S. Department of Defense, which outfitsÃâà...
Wisconsin Public Radio News
December 31, 1999
The Madison Police Department has also purchased a used Lenco Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck (BearCat) for roughly $40,000 from the Dane County Sheriff's Office to replace its MRAP. Madison Assistant Police Chief Victor Wahl said the mine-resistant vehicle isn'tÃâà...
ENGINEERING.com
December 31, 1999
The team developed a small-scale model of under-vehicle explosions and used it to demonstrate how different frame designs affect loads emitted from an explosive onto a vehicle. They included a double V-shaped hull—a mine-resistant armor protected (MRAP) vehicle incorporated by the U.S. military inÃâà...
