McCaffrey: U.S. Generals Attacked By Improvised Bombs, Protected By MRAP

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle - MRAP.

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DefenseAlert, Nov. 19, 2008 -- A Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle is credited with saving the lives of two U.S. Army generals in Iraq after a driver operating a vehicle packed with an estimated 800 pounds of explosives detonated the suicide payload, destroying all but the protective armor capsule of the MRAP designed to cocoon passengers from roadside bombs.

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