Mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle
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Oct 17, 2026
Vern WarnkeGUEST
Yeah.
Casey SteedHOST
Well, I know we used the, uh, the MRAP or whatever it is-
Vern WarnkeGUEST
That's it, yeah
Casey SteedHOST
... that had the high clearance-
BKGUEST
What are these Saudi-backed forces gonna fight for? They're just getting destroyed over there, Jesse.
BKGUEST
I don't know if you've seen some of the clips floating around on X in particular, but these guys are just, like, rolling up in these- You know, uh, y- the, the, $10 million MRAPs, all these armored vehicles, and they're just getting smoked by, like, a $5,000 drone, and eventually those numbers are just untenable.
BKGUEST
So I, I don't wanna say completely that the, the era of the large piece of infrastructure, war infrastructure is over, but man, it's gotta be getting close.
BKGUEST
How can an aircraft carrier...
Kevin BaronGUEST
Um, of course, a lot of autonomy and et cetera.
Kevin BaronGUEST
That's a lot different than The Lockheeds and Boeings and General Dynamics who have been around for hundreds of years and are gonna be around for hundreds of years, who are, they look at 30 and 40 year contracts and 30 and 40 year plans, right? Everything seems very, very narrow and short term, like it, which feels a little dangerous, right? And, and back in the days when you were in the sandbox, it was like, "We need MRAPs.
Kevin BaronGUEST
We need them right now." Like, nobody needs an MRAP right now.
Kevin BaronGUEST
They, we're, we're not gonna, we're not ground warring in the Middle East, especially now with what's been happening, and anytime soon, we hope.
Rob BinghamGUEST
I think we MRAPed out.
Ryan LonerganHOST
I was gonna say, there was a group that did MRAP.
Rob BinghamGUEST
Yeah.
Rob BinghamGUEST
Yeah.
Ryan LonerganHOST
"Let- let's, let's just do this."
Rob BinghamGUEST
Yeah.
Rob BinghamGUEST
We definitely MRAPed out.
Rob BinghamGUEST
We convoyed.
BKGUEST
What are these Saudi-backed forces gonna fight for? They're just getting destroyed over there, Jesse.
BKGUEST
I don't know if you've seen some of the clips floating around on X, in particular, but these guys are just, like, rolling up in these, you know, uh, these, uh, uh, $10 million MRAPs, all these armored vehicles, and they're just getting smoked by, like, a $5,000 drone.
BKGUEST
And eventually those numbers are just untenable.
BKGUEST
So I, I don't wanna say completely that the, the era of the large piece of infrastructure, war infrastructure, is over, but man, it's gotta be getting close.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
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Malcolm NanceGUEST
MRAPs would be impressive enough-
Brandon WeichertHOST
Mm-hmm
Malcolm NanceGUEST
... to go up and down that place through the mountains and valleys and do it.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Mm-hmm.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
And the terrain, you could not...
Malcolm NanceGUEST
There's those famous videos of M1 tanks burning and guys jumping out of their MRAPs and trying to run up or down mountains, and the Houthis fire is very accurate.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Mm-hmm.
John AmbleHOST
And I find the juxtaposition of these things, this advanced technology, you know, the stasis field with these very primitive technologies of, you know, heavy metal blade weapons, I find that juxtaposition really interesting.
John AmbleHOST
And it also got me thinking about my own experience and the experience of a generation of, of members of the military during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where, for instance, when I was in Iraq, we rolled around in MRAPs that were equipped with DUKE systems, right? These sophisticated electronic warfare systems.
John AmbleHOST
What were they meant to protect against? They were meant to protect against IEDs, homemade bombs.
John AmbleHOST
You know, you- here you have this juxtaposition of high technology and low technology.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
There have been you know, a range of defense secretaries that I've covered.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
But one point I will make is that when Robert Gates was defense secretary and troops were still serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there wasn't what we called an MRAP, which was a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
There were soft vehicles that they were using and they were getting blown up all the time by landmines, and by EFPs, which were explicitly formed penetrators sent by the Iranians to kill American troops.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
There were a lot of people losing limbs and their lives in these conflicts.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
But when USA Today wrote the story about how the Marines and the Pentagon bureaucracy were slowing down the production of MRAPs, and when Robert Gates learned about that through the press, not through his own people, not people in the Pentagon, he ordered not only people to be fired, but he ordered the Marines to do an about-face and start producing those MRAPs.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
And guess what? Thousands of MRAPs started rolling off the lines.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
And those MRAPs protected people like Pete Hegseth, who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan at that time.
Jennifer GriffinGUEST
That was because of a free press.
Nick BergusHOST
But specifically the leaders who were in power at that time.
Nick BergusHOST
I mean, Rod Sullivan wrote a letter, um, saying that, you know, we should ask the sheriff to get rid of the MRAP, right? Like, think about that.
Laura BergusHOST
Mm-hmm.
Nick BergusHOST
You know, Jon Green said that he wanted abolition.
Wajeeh LionHOST
Mm.
Malcolm NanceHOST
They don't need MRAPs.
Malcolm NanceHOST
MRAPs slow you down.
Malcolm NanceHOST
These guys are literally the Houthi hillbillies, and now you see a lot of these pro-Saudi Sunni tribes are going over to the Houthis just to be left alone.
Malcolm NanceHOST
That's what they really want.
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