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wintermut

A little guilt is always helpful....

I like “I have spoken”

I end everything now, like that one mandalorian character.

I have spoken.

Proof that the military will buy anything if you make it look badass. These fuckers cost $330,000 each though, for something that is 90% just a Colorado ZR2. What is the other 10%, gold bars? You can’t possibly convince me that this is better value for taxpayer money than just buying a bunch of actual ZR2s and

The Judge:

Is this the judge? “I don’t even want to hear you clear your throat. Guilty or not guilty?”

BY YOUR COMMAND.

getting MRAP into service was fast because the govt threw bags of money at the project. It also wasn’t as fast as it could have been since they specked the vehicles with an armor plating from an at the time obscure Israeli supplier that could not produce more than a handful of pieces of armor per day in Israel. I was

CEO Deathmatch: Mary “Blood ‘N’ Guts” Barra vs Michael “Machete” Manley.

These were used in Iraq and Afghanistan as well:

I’m assuming (ha-ha) they did some testing with Jet-A or JP-8. The commercial diesels in the CUCVs and Hummers didn’t like these fuels. Actually the gaskets and seals in fuel system were the culprits during Desert Shield/Storm.

IT IS SO ORDERED

The biggest expenditures in government are Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, Social Security, and interest payments on debts. We can definitely afford universal healthcare if you trim Defense and merge Medicare/Medicaid/VA healthcare into one universal system. People just need to vote for the politicians to do so, which is

No vehicle was every designed to run away from trouble as much as the British Archer tank destroyer. Below is a picture. The front of this thing is on the left and the gun fires over the rear of the engine. 

So can the troops ride in it while it is swinging under a Blackhawk?  That would be a wild ride.

Well, at least it solved the problem of ‘GM truck grill’.

That’ll be great till they decide to weld 20-30 tons of armor to it.

“the $214.3 million contract covers the “initial Army Procurement Objective” of 649 machine”

Poor bastards sitting out back are going to be eating epic amounts of dust.

Not a whole lot of protection for that radiator. Looks way too easy to have a stick or tree branch puncture things and immobilize the vehicle.