Sentence examples for protected vehicle from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, news that the school district's police department recently acquired a 14-ton mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or an M-RAP, caused a stir in San Diego.

Another step Gates took in that process was to accelerate production and delivery of the MRAP (for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicle, an armored troop carrier that is much less vulnerable to roadside bombs.

"I'm going to sweat my pants off," said Private James Martin, 20, a Texan from Fort Hood who had dozed off in the shade of an MRAP [Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle].

He said Japanese soldiers could operate the robots from a protected vehicle.

Standing outside his MRAP (heavily armored, mine protected) vehicle, 29-year-old peshmerga captain engineer Dilgash said fighters had received intelligence that IS had planted a lot of IEDs.

We find that $600,000 heavily protected vehicles did not reduce units' fatalities appreciably more than $170,000 medium-protected vehicles did.

Pentagon officials found that soldiers in mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, or MRAPs, survive roadside bombings, and we agree.

Still, there has been argument among analysts over the high cost of mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, or MRAPs.

Nowadays, with modern body armour, protected vehicles, rapid air medevac and combat trauma medicine, the figures are much higher.

In recent years, the United States military has patrolled Iraq with the newer mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAPs) instead of Humvees, because they are designed to withstand blasts.

Obama's rollback of the Pentagon's equipment transfer program left police departments free to continue receiving many of the sort of guns, body armour and mine resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAPs) seen on the streets of Ferguson.