Posted by MoparNorm on Thursday, October 04, 2007 at 00:17:15 :
In Reply to: Thats terrible. posted by M Fanoni on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 at 21:18:03 :
While these vehicles are not intended to be tactical, you are looking at it backwards.
We seemed to do just fine in WWII with Jeeps, I seem to recall that we won and we won primarily because of Jeeps. They are highly mobile and manuverable. The latest high speed 50 caliber guns make them very lethal. The Up Armor Humvees are sitting ducks because we are now in a Policing Mode. In combat modern action moves too fast for IED's to be effective, we have other vehicles to meet that threat, see my post below to Jack.
I'd rather be in a Jeep than on foot, any day.