Up-Armoring Humvees Kills Troops?
- Monday, June 12 2006 @ 07:48 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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(Hat Tip: lawhawk at A Blog For All)
CNN has a report revealing that up-armoring Humvees makes them more likely to roll over and kill U.S. troops:
CNN has a report revealing that up-armoring Humvees makes them more likely to roll over and kill U.S. troops:
"I believe the up-armoring has caused more deaths than it has saved," said Scott Badenoch, a former Delphi Corp. vehicle dynamics expert told the Dayton Daily News for Sunday editions.Do you remember who (as a group) were the most vocal advocates for up-armoring the Humvees? Hmm?
Since the start of the war, Congress and the Army have spent tens of millions of dollars on armor for the Humvee fleet in Iraq, the newspaper reported Sunday.
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An analysis of the Army's ground accident database, which includes records from March 2003 through November 2005, found that 60 of the 85 soldiers who died in Humvee accidents in Iraq -- or 70 percent -- were killed when the vehicle rolled, the newspaper reported. Of the 337 injuries, 149 occurred in rollovers.
"The whole thing is a formula for disaster," said Badenoch, who is working with the military to design a lighter-armored vehicle to replace the Humvee.