New MRAP The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles

MRAPs The JERRV is one type of vehicle in the category of Mine Resistant
Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs. It’s the usual alphabet soup of
military acronyms that all boils down to one thing: protecting Marines
in combat. Unlike the humvee, the current workhorse of the American
vehicle fleet, the JERRV chassis was designed with heavy bomb-proof
armor in mind.

“It smells like a brand new car. It’s got that nice, plastic, clean car
smell,” said McMillian. “There’s nothing else like it in the world.”

More important than the smell, McMillian said, is how the 20-ton, six-wheeled behemoth handles.

“Surprisingly,
it handles very well. It’s a lot more nimble than you would expect from
a 20-ton vehicle. Its turning radius is amazing, and its versatility
and terrain capability is way up there,” he said.

[Read full article}[/q]