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 04-01-2009, 11:28 PM | #1 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |  Fighting Cowards with Better Engineering
Soldiers survived!!
This is one of the new "hardened" MRAP vehicles that was hit by a 500 lb bomb (IED). The vehicle was totally destroyed, but EVERYONE IN THE VEHICLE WALKED AWAY.
Note the unusual construction of the bottom of the hardened Pathfinder APC. Note the bottom looks like the hull of a ship. The blast picked up the truck and turned it around! The driver got some broken ribs (see the photo of the steering wheel), but that's it. Everyone walked away from a 500 lb explosion directly beneath their vehicle.
__________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 04-01-2009, 11:29 PM | #2 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
Some more pictures of the damage... __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Originally Posted by doctherock
Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 04-01-2009, 11:31 PM | #3 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
Look how far that engine got thrown!!! Can you imagine??
I don't know who the team was that designed that damn thing, but I would be DAMN PROUD to buy them more than a few cold ones to say:
THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL EFFING DONE!!! __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Originally Posted by doctherock
Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 04-01-2009, 11:47 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 216 |
Man that is crazy and had to have been scary. Glad they made it out alive! | |
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| 04-01-2009, 11:59 PM | #5 | This is only a test Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Nonya, WA Posts: 3,993 |
That has got to piss off the ragheads that wasted 500 pounds of explosives and only messed up the truck! | |
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| 04-02-2009, 12:38 AM | #6 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Maracaibo Posts: 2,426 |
They seems to be very well built.... I bet that you reinstall the engine, make all conections, fill up again with oil and will run like nothing.... looks like a Caterpillar 3126 one of the most reliables diesel engines, they resist use and abuse, if you really see tha pics, the only damage was the front end... that truck maybe can be saved... __________________ “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Dr. Adrian Rogers”
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| 04-02-2009, 10:47 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
That was built good. I would have been the guy that got out and was pissed off that they blew up my brand new truck. I would really have to kill someone after that. | |
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| 04-02-2009, 01:38 PM | #8 | Deader Bears=Better Bears Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: BFE, Mississippi Posts: 10,056 |
Kudos to the engineers on that one!
I heard some talk on the "news" that these vehicles are too heavy for some areas in Afghanistan, though. Maybe they could just pattern bomb those areas or something. | |
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| 04-02-2009, 04:37 PM | #9 | Sic Semper Tyrannis Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: , The Mother Lode Posts: 18,437 |
Outstanding! __________________
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where those least capable of leadership are elected by those least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or provide for themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by wealth confiscated from a diminishing number of people who actually work and produce.
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| 04-02-2009, 05:12 PM | #10 | Ground Zero Ocean Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florence, Oregon Posts: 8,463 |
JD!! Who builds these things! Their engineers and everyone involved from assembly to delivery deserves a big round of applause!! Well Done Gentlemen!! | |
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