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Originally Posted by m21sniper

BTW, as soon as we do, the US is not going to want all these armored trucks and humvees any more. They are hideously uneconomical to run in peace time.

The latest recon vehicle is a hybrid, quiet electric motors and fuel efficient from a mission viewpoint. There is change, the humvee is due for replacement anyway.

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_ground_vehicles.html




Flipping an Abrams Tank With Your Pinkie
http://www.defensetech.org/

All right folks, so you're probably going to need to help set me straight on this, but there were a couple of interesting presentations at the armor conference regarding nano-fibers -- particularly the construction of carbon fiber nano-tubes in a lab environment.

The impact on the body armor industry if this technology could be produced on a large scale is huge. One of my body armor buds told me if fully realized, "a big football player could flip a tank over" that's made out of the stuff.

Whoa!