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2010-02-11 Afghanistan

McCurdy's Armor System Going To Afghanistan

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Those are some heavy-looking legos there.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-11 00:30|| 2010-02-11 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like BS. I know there are a lot of grunts that wouldn't mind having their own shovel/implement and dig their own little holes and watch the frag fly over their heads.

Posted by texhooey 2010-02-11 00:53|| 2010-02-11 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Just a sfor many military projects (or as the navigation system discused a couple days ago) Obama will find it too expensive all while giving billions to Acorn and digging a trillion dollar deficit.

Posted by JFM 2010-02-11 06:32|| 2010-02-11 06:32|| Front Page Top

#4 texhooey, I'm told by by colleagues who are uniformed that the ground in Afghanistan isn't as receptive to an entrenching tool as that of France was in WWI.

Force protection for forward-deployed troops is a priority I would support and one that will serve well, I suspect, if we find ourselves in operations other than force-on-force battles with nation states elsewhere in the world.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-11 07:08|| 2010-02-11 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 In the 60's I remember reading about a "Foxhole Digger", sorta a mortar shell directed down, blew a nice foxhole in a few seconds, Isn't it still available?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-11 13:18|| 2010-02-11 13:18|| Front Page Top

#6 If you're referring to these, I don't think they ever got into the standard equipment inventory, although I could be wrong.

In any case, what is wanted these days IIUC are ways to protect small FOBs rather than to dig foxholds. Clear, hold, build ...

Posted by lotp 2010-02-11 15:55|| 2010-02-11 15:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Why am I thinking Roman Legion camp?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-02-11 16:05|| 2010-02-11 16:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep LOTP, that's exactly what I was thinking about.
Good find.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-11 18:01|| 2010-02-11 18:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Breachers for roads, insta-forts..yup.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-11 19:02|| 2010-02-11 19:02|| Front Page Top

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