Andy Oppenheimer and Dennis-R Merklinghaus A Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) is a family of armoured fighting vehicles designed with the goal of surviving IED attacks and ambushes - prompted by US deaths in Iraq. There is no common MRAP vehicle design; there are several vendors, each with a competing entry. lEDs continue as the main weapon of war in the AfPak theatre, Iraq and other military operations, increasingly for ambushing troop and logistical convoys on the road and in more varied and sophisticated forms and sizes. In the whole of 2010, lEDs wounded or killed 7,800 troops in the US-led coalition.
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