Protection of Army truck requires tradeoffs.
National Defense › Vol. 89 Nbr. 609, August 2004
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Protection of Army truck requires tradeoffs.
Military truck makers are grappling with how to best satisfy seemingly incompatible goals: building relatively uncomplicated vehicles that can both sustain the rigors of combat and, when needed, effortlessly be plated with thousands of pounds of armor.
Designers and engineers in the United States are learning the hard way that vehicles that originally were not made for crews to survive bomb and grenade attacks cannot simply be shielded with armor, without severely compromising performance and creating new kinds of hazards. Hanging 1,500-pound armor kits on 7,0...See the full content of this document
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