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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=26393" target="_blank">Explosion damages Cdn demining vehicle in Afghanistan</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/13-military" target="_blank">Military</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-10-23 16:33:45
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[Arctic_Menace]

Okay, I am the only one slightly worried about this?!

[sasquatch2]

No you certainly are not the only one concerned.

There is really no such thing as a mine-proof vehicle----mine resistant perhaps.

An associate said he saw an MI Abrams hurled across a road by an IED----63 tons of tank.

[ridenrain]

If only there was a way to combine the mine problems in Afghanistan with the car theft problems here in Surrey....

[SprCForr]

$1:

A loud bang, the acrid smell of explosives and a blinding cloud of dust indicated the Taliban had struck again - successfully.

Successfully? It's a goal of the Taliban to blow up equipment? I thought it was to inflict casualties.
I must have missed the press release. Anyhoo, the Husky did what it's supposed to do. I think that De Wolfe makes a good point:

$1:

The explosion was really strong," added De Wolfe, who noted the damaged vehicle had just moved in front of his RG-31 armoured vehicle.

"That one is repairable; this one would have been cut in two."