They Army shuns system that can save lives.

[sandrakae]

The Army shuns system to combat RPGs. The Israeli's have a system called Trophy they can combat RPG's and save lives. Instead of our Government using this, they have decided to give a 70 million dollar contract to Raytheon to develop a new system. Raytheon’s system won’t be ready for fielding until 2011 at the earliest. In the mean time our troops are dying.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14686871/

Please write your congressman. Express your outrage.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

[MADem]

1. Jesus Christ on a bike, it's like PENTAGON WARS, only worse!!!!

Kotchman, however, says the Army is doing everything prudent to provide for the protection and safety of U.S. forces and insists the Israeli system is not ready to be deployed by the U.S. “Trophy has not demonstrated its capability to be successfully integrated into a system and continue to perform its wartime mission,” he says.

That claim, however, is disputed by other Pentagon officials as well as internal documents obtained by NBC News. In an e-mail, a senior official writes: “Trophy is a system that is ready — today... We need to get this capability into the hands of our warfighters ASAP because: (1) It will save lives!”

Officials also tell NBC News that according to the Pentagon’s own method of measuring a weapons system’s readiness, Trophy is “between a 7 and an 8” out of a possible score of 9. Raytheon’s system is said to be a “3.”

So why would the Army block a solution that might help troops?

“There are some in the Army who would be extremely concerned that if the Trophy system worked, then the Army would have no need to go forward with the Raytheon system and the program might be terminated,” says Steven Schooner, who teaches procurement law at both George Washington University and the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s School....

[countryjake]

2. This week I saw a Stryker mom whose son was killed by an RPG...

and she was pleading with people to bring this to the attention of all those who "support the troops". I've been searching for that news report, but I can't remember what local network it was on, all I know is that her son was from the Stryker Brigade out of Ft. Lewis, WA.

This is taking "war profiteering" to a whole new level, turning down protection that is proven in favor of stuffing Raytheon's pockets.

[LostInAnomie]

3. I saw that report the other day.

There is a corrupt deal going on somewhere along the line. Raytheon won't be ready until 2011 when they others are up and running and 98% success rates right now. Raytheon didn't have to go through the testing process when the others did, and when they were tested they only had to do the easiest test. Raytheon employees made up the majority of the judges on the panel also.

Something very corrupt is going on.