Air Force To Keep 90 Percent Of Its MRAPs, With Adjustments Among Variants

By Gabe Starosta / June 6, 2013 at 7:32 PM
Air Force officials hope to divest themselves of one category of Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles in the inventory today and take ownership of several kinds of MRAPs the Marine Corps is doing away with -- money-permitting -- to meet an enduring requirement for MRAPs that a high-level Air Force board approved last year. That board, the Air Force Requirements Oversight Council, determined that the service should maintain a fleet of 754 armored vehicles, which represents about 92 percent of the Air...

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