• BarqsHasBite
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    7 months ago

    Honestly doesn’t look all that bad for a fucking anti tank mine.

    This incident marks the first documented instance where a commercial-based armored vehicle has successfully withstood such an attack, highlighting its robust protective capabilities

    For those that don’t know it’s built on a Ford 550 frame.

    • @[email protected]
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      427 months ago

      Aye.

      Cars can be replaced. Lives can’t. I guess it also boosts morale seeing equipment that actually works.

    • @tpihkal
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      37 months ago

      Quite impressive for sure! I’m curious to know what’s going on in the under body of that thing.

  • BoscoBear
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    287 months ago

    It would be awesome if US police departments donated all their heavy tactical vehicles to your cause.

    • @[email protected]
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      447 months ago

      And risk life and limb? Acorn season is coming up and without heavy military equipment for neighborhood patrols it will be a bloodbath /j

      • @Railing5132
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        77 months ago

        Don’t forget about school shootings - all those rural Texas LARPers need their tacti-cool trucks to sit on while elementary school kids are murdered too!

  • @tpihkal
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    97 months ago

    Pretty sure it’s totalled though.

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          7 months ago

          I love the optimism, but even with full coverage, that looks like a good parts truck to me.

    • @Questy
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      167 months ago

      More than 1000 have been supplied to Ukraine, they can soak some vehicle losses. That’s what they’re built for.

      • @MutilationWave
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        97 months ago

        Yep. To expand they’re built to save fighters’ lives. If you had to put a value on it, one veteran Ukrainian is worth far more than this MRAP. And this one saved several.

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          57 months ago

          And not only that: The it says they survived without injuries (though I’m guessing they were at least a little shook up). Give those guys the next vehicle on the line, and I bet they’re more than happy to go find the Russians that placed those mines and give them their regards.

          The morale boost from having this kind of equipment probably cannot be underestimated