Kata’ib-Hisbollah-Aufständische zünden während des Irak-Krieges EFP auf einem amerikanischen Humvee. Bagdad 21.07.2007

And now we have MRAPs

Edit: for those uneducated down voting me, the MRAP program was started in 2007 with the express purpose of defending against IEDs. I wasn’t attesting to their effectiveness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_MRAP_program

> The MRAP may not be sufficiently effective against Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFP), which use an explosive charge to propel a specially shaped metal plate at high velocity while simultaneously forming it into an armor-piercing projectile. In Iraq, EFP use more than doubled in 2006.[71][72] In 2007, 11 percent of all roadside bomb fatalities were due to EFPs.[73] In 2007, the Marines had estimated that MRAPs could reduce IED casualties in Iraq by as much as 80 percent.[74]

> This MRAP weakness was addressed by the next-generation MRAP II. As an interim solution, the military installed a variant of the Humvee’s IED-defeating Frag Kit 6 armor, which adds significant weight and width.[43] In July 2008, the U.S. military reported the number of EFP attacks had dropped by 70 percent.[75]

These guys are still extremely powerful and influential in Iraq today. Unlike the Sunni insurgent groups who were wiped out by US and Iraqi forces, the Shiite groups like Kata’ib Hezbollah were allowed to become the Iraqi army and police, even though at least 50% of them are actually more loyal to Iran than they are to Iraq.

Back in 2007 they had a direct line from the IRGC sending them weapons such as EFPs to test against US forces.

Whats up with the influx on U.S. troops getting murked around here? Are we getting prepped for something?

Hopefully their pagers were active last year

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Why is this getting downvoted? Isn’t this an actual combatfootage?