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to every $6.7 billion expensive problem there is a cheap solution; I don't see much gain for the buck here other than keeping Oshkoshians gainfully employed at tax payer expense.

Oshkosh Defense beat out Maryland-based Lockheed Martin and Indiana-based AM General for the contract. Both companies have 10 days for file formal protests.

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/Why-The-RPG-Rules-2-10-2009.asp $500.00>with vehicles designed 'fitted for, but not with', protection. Protection kits can be installed and uninstalled from vehicles in the field using only basic tools. The A-kit is fitted on the production line and is a combination of a limited amount of armouring, in difficult-to-access areas of the vehicle, together with a significant amount of armour installation attachments and required support structures. The bulk of the armour, the B-kit, is installed in the field on an 'as required' basis. Two soldiers can install B-kit armor in five hours. An 800-pound RPG protection kit can be installed in two hours at field-level maintenance and completed by the crew within 30 minutes. The benefits of the A-kit/B-kit principle are that armour is only fitted when required, reducing vehicle wear and tear and, by default, whole life cycle costs. Improvements and/or upgrades to armour are also far easier to integrate into an appliqué solution. No quantity for JLTV armouring kits has yet been disclosed, but it is anticipated that the estimated $65,000 kits will be procured on a 'one kit to three vehicle' basis. The overall protection solution will include a spall liner to minimize perforation effects within a vehicle when the vehicle takes hostile fire. $6.75 BILLION /17000 VEHICLES= $397,000 PER UNIT AND I STILL GOTTA ADD $ 65,000 FOR THE RPG's CHEAP SOLUTION to 1 in 3 vehicles?......And we're getting F-35 Raptors at $85 Million apiece to boot? 'Hitler said it best: "First let's kill everyone who took accounting!"