Corps spending millions to up-armor Cougars
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:47 am
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Corps spending millions to up-armor Cougars
By Dan Lamothe - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Dec 28, 2008 10:35:59 EST
Responding to the continued threat posed by armor-melting explosively formed penetrators, the Corps will add thousands of pounds of scalable bolt-on plates to some Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles.
Marine Corps Systems Command has purchased $30 million in new add-on armor kits from Force Protection Inc., the Ladson, S.C.,-based company announced Dec. 17. It will pay for kits to be used on 196 Cougar MRAPs, which the company manufactures, said Damon Walsh, a vice president at Force Protection.
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