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864:"The source said that what media reports have identified as a military-issued Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle in Ferguson is actually a much smaller privately sold vehicle called a BearCat. The vehicle cannot be obtained through the Pentagon's program and instead needs to be purchased by the department, he said. That assertion was backed up by Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety, who said he did not have any records of St. Louis County police receiving any armored vehicles through the Pentagon's program." 496: 1740:"MRAP is a United States military term for vehicles that are designed specifically to withstand improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and ambushes." This does not withstand even momentary scrutiny. MRAP is a US military program; a class of vehicles built to related specifications for a related purpose. It refers only to vehicles of that program, and is not a class of vehicles. Just because Americans are unfamiliar with similar vehicles does not make the term all encompassing. 544:"72 percent of the world's bridges cannot hold the MRAP." This statement in the first section is extremely vague even if sourced. What does the source use as the definition of a bridge (i.e. train bridge, foot bridge, ice bridge, culvert, etc.)? I agree MRAPs are pretty darn heavy but the reference should be more specific or removed. Even most third-world countries build bridges to hold the weight of supply trucks which weigh as much or more than MRAPs. 480: 448: 512: 464: 798:"MRAPs, painted in law enforcement black, were used by riot police in the August 2014 Ferguson unrest. Police were equipped with military infantry gear such as body armor, gas masks, M4 carbines, and camouflage fatigues, heightening the issue of police militarization in the public eye. In response, President Obama called for a review of the programs which supply military gear, including the MRAP, to local police." 220: 333: 405: 394: 383: 291: 251: 691:. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. The whitelisting process can take its time so once a request has been filled out, you may set the invisible parameter on the tag to true. Please be aware that the bot will replace removed tags, and will remove misplaced tags regularly. 741: 861:"Despite reports that military “Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected” vehicles, or MRAPs, were used on Ferguson streets, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety said none has been supplied to agencies in St. Louis or St. Louis County. Some other Missouri communities have received them, including St. Charles County." 372: 361: 559:

important on wooden bridges). This concentrates more of the weight to a smaller section of the bridge. Also supply trucks can adapt their loads to suit the bridges & roads they know they will use. Remember the military can put more traffic across a bridge or road in a week than the builders intended in a year.

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Neither of the vehicles displayed in the image at the source are MRAPs, both are clearly Lenco BearCats which fall into a completely different category of vehicle (as the BearCat is not mine resistant but designed to withstand small arms fire). Unless someone can show factual evidence that a MRAP was

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I found a DoD Contract announcement awarding Navistar an $ 880 million contract for the procurement of "2,717 rolling chasis...for MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles." This may be where that 2,700 number came from. The issue is that The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, VA, is the

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The source shows 8 images of Lenco BearCats and 1 image of a Lenco Bear and directly refers to the pictures as "MRAPs". This source clearly doesn't know the difference and is just using the buzzword that is going around the media, other sources including St. Louis County state they do not have MRAPs

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One of the problems with MRAPs weight on these bridges etc is the relatively short length of the vehicle for its weight in comparison to a similar civilian supply truck (& the number of wheels used to spread the weight sideways as many civilan equivalent trucks often have dual wheels - can be

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The article has been corrected, it's 16 vehicles, not 2700, and they've had them since 2008. They look like Alphas to me which makes sense because I think that 16 were delivered but never fielded. This explains where they went. We'd need more accurate and reliable source information to make any

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I rephrased Layson's edit better and reincorporated the President's quote. It's unreasonable to omit the president's words but include the quote from Sgt Rube of Backwater PD; I wouldn't oppose removing the quote but the section presently reads as attempting to discredit the issue of

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On the page for the GAZ 2975 Tigr, likening it to the "Russian Humvee" was called dubious, even though they're nearly identical vehicles - the Tigr looks similar, has a similar design, and fulfills the same role, but Tigr and Humvee are still completely different vehicles.

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It seems like doing this would ease some confusion- examples like the Oshkosh M-ATV and JLTV were not part of the original program, but might be what people are looking for when they search “MRAP”. The same is true for vehicles from other countries with a similar purpose.

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I think it might be a good idea to split this into at least two articles: one for MRAP (Program), covering the mid-2000’s military contracts, and one for MRAP (vehicle type), covering the general concept of a mine-resistant wheeled armored personnel carrier.

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A BTR-80 and a Volvo V60 - both are vehicles, with wheels, that have high mobility, which can be applied to many purposes. they are high mobility, multipurpose, wheeled vehicles. I don't think anyone thinks a Volvo station wagon is a

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MRAP. "Mine resistant ambush protected." An MRAP. Many MRAPs. A mine resistant ambush protected. Many mine resistant ambush protecteds. MRAP as a noun is a factually inaccurate colloquialism and should be avoided.

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Please try and wrap your heads around the idea MRAP is not a class of vehicle, like tank or APC, only the program. Please do not stop disseminating the idea MRAP applies to non-American vehicles, like the British

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Does anyone else want to research this and add it to the article? The Department of Homeland Security has acquired over 2,700 military-style, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles for use inside the U.S.

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The amount needs to be checked, as more and more rural law enforcement departments are receiving newer generation MRAPs as gifts from the government - way more than the mere 16 that are claimed by Dino.

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The term "Ambush Protected" is used 12 times on this page. "Mine resistant" is fairly self-evident but it would be nice if there were some explanation of what "ambush protected" means.

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I haven't used pings before and don't really care for them. I thought you'd be watching this article. Use of the See also template is fine and used a fair bit; I just added one. -

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The article assumes that MRAPs are purely an American thing. That was my impression too, but now the Russians have them. (They were in the news because of some war somewhere.)

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I think it's still worthwhile having a page for the MRAP program (as in the DoD contracts), to go over the history of the program, which vehicles were procured, etc.

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please watch for anyone doing this and feedback. i understand that archiving is an extra step (but should be done), but putting in a mere publication date ?

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1033 has already been linked in the text here. So the link is not missing or omitted. The Main link template is meant for split off articles as shown at

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oversourced, but a third of links are dead. i dont understand why people put in bare links without publication dates, which are crucial info for context.

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http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/April/Pages/RepurposedMRAPsFindNewLifeinPoliceAgencies.aspx

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As far as reverting my insertion of {main|1033 program}: You are absolutely right that the 1033 page is not

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used by the police in response to the Ferguson Riots then it should not be posted that they were.

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