Should our troops have the protection of this device?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120371 8/Mothballed-Bomb-sweeper-save-troops-lives.ht ml

This type of thing is something I have suggested on a number of posts.

Why haven't our troops got it? The Americans think it is superb.

Perhaps the next time a Government official visits Afghanistan, he should only given two options of vehicles to travel about in, one of the British unprotected vehicles or an American one with this device fitted, see which he picks?

[paddywak]

typical of the shower of **** we have running the country. They're more concerned with their fiddles then doing their job, especially where the armed forces are concerned these men & women doing a job that affects the safety of ALL and they deserve

[paddywak]

sorry about the incomplete post hit submit not preview by mistake to complete my post I fully believe our people should get the very best support possible both while in the combat zone and afterwards if the worst should happen and if the government are not prepared to do this they should pull our boys out. The government are quite happy spending millions on many unpopular issues that the vast majority of people do not support, but begrudge the money to supply the kit that wil heilp keep our boys safe while they do a very difficlt job

[Gromit]

The following is from a British Army bulletin board, and it seems to be saying we bought these devices to safely transfer the turbines for an Iraqi dam project and they proved not to work as advertised.

A complete non-story - these were used for the movement of the turbine for the Kajaki dam, and the first few IEDs were functioned harmlessly - just 6 hours up the road, they had already ceased co-locating the pressure plate with the main charge and were functioning main charges under the vehicle hull with gusto

http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=1299 34.html

[fredpuli47]

A couple of weeks ago someone in The Times suggested such a device. The response was a sad letter from a man whose son had been killed in Afghanistan, despite this vehicle. The enemy had worked out a way of detonating a secondary charge under vehicles so the device set off one bomb but failed to set off the next charge..