Guardian angels on battlefield: Rise of MRAP armored vehicles and their vital role in combat

This type of military vehicle hasn't garnered the same media frenzy as Bayraktar drones, HIMARS rocket launchers, F-16 fighter jets, or Leopard tanks, but its importance in the course of combat operations is hard to overstate. Transporting troops to the frontline, evacuation, crew protection in incredibly challenging situations, and enabling swift maneuvers – this is all about MRAP armored vehicles.

Liga.Tech will tell the story of the emergence and history of this type of equipment, its strengths and weaknesses, which models are in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and which ones the domestic defense industry is planning to manufacture.

Africa sets the trend

The term MRAP is an acronym for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected. Initially, this term was used only in the classification of the U.S. Army, but over time, as is often the case, it became a universal name for all vehicles with a similar concept.