The 'Ugly' American MRAP That Made Iraqi Insurgents Build Bigger Bombs Just To Kill It

The MaxxPro MRAP shrugged off IEDs that obliterated Humvees in Iraq. How did Navistar's ugly 18-ton V-hull become the most-survived vehicle of the Iraq War?

By 2007, improvised explosive devices caused 70 percent of U.S. hostile deaths in Iraq. Up-armored Humvees were being shredded daily along Route Irish and in the Triangle of Death. The Pentagon needed something taller, heavier, V-shaped underneath, and able to roll into a roadside ambush and roll back out with everyone inside still alive.

That vehicle was the Navistar International MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected truck. Over 9,000 were built. According to the U.S. Army's Anti-Armor Incident Database, troops in MRAPs were 14 times less likely to be killed per IED attack than troops in Humvees.

This documentary covers the IED crisis, Robert Gates' fast-tracking of the MRAP program, Navistar's production surge at West Point Mississippi, the V-hull lineage from the South African Casspir and Buffel, the Plasan Sasa armor, the first combat death of Specialist Richard Burress in Al Jabour, the rollover problem, the 1033 police transfers, the MaxxPro's afterlife in Ukraine, and the JLTV successor.

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