The Pentagon's chief weapons tester said earlier this year that he wanted to put the brakes on an effort to rush so-called "blast chimney" vehicle technology to the field in U.S. humvees this summer, stating in his initial assessment that the design failed to provide a significant boost in protection against improvised explosive devices and could expose a vehicle gunner to blast damage, according to an internal memo obtained by Inside the Army . The chimney technology -- designed to...
