BAE MRAPs focus of rollover warnings

BAE Systems, though one of the big winners of MRAP manufacturing contracts, has found its vehicles the focus of rollover warnings.

BAE manufactures elsewhere the Caiman model and has a part in the manufacturing of the RG-31, which has a lead producer of General Dynamics.

Both of those models have been involved in major rollover incidents, helping to prompt the warning.

Golden said the company is in conversations with the military about what can be done to minimize the risk of MRAP rollover, but could not comment further.

(York Daily Record)

The above story is all over the news, and many of the accounts refer to MRAPs as being "hastily designed" or words to that effect. It isn't rocket science that a high center of gravity tends to increase the chances of rollover. Evidently the BAE designs proved more susceptible than expected, which is likely to have played a part in General Dynamics winning the lion's share of orders when the latest contracts were announced last Friday.

Perhaps another lesson to apply to the JLTV competition?