Agence France-Presse quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Defense James Hasik on the US Army’s new all-purpose vehicle, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV):
“An armoured Humvee is not designed to deal with landmines, the architecture is all wrong,” said Jim Hasik, a fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank. “It sits far too close to the ground and doesn’t have a V-shaped hull [to deflect a blast].”