Armored truck builders produced 1,187 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in December, according to an internal Pentagon document, just shy of the year-end monthly production target of 1,280 vehicles that Defense Secretary Robert Gates set in July. According to a Jan. 9 Pentagon tally of MRAP production, the $22 billion appropriated for a "surge" in MRAP production resulted in the manufacture of 3,498 MRAPs in all of 2007 and the first week of January -- 10 percent lower than the...
