InsideDefense.com reports:
Army leaders are heading to Iraq and Kuwait on a mission to determine exactly how many Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles the service needs, an assessment that could propel the total size of the MRAP program well beyond 23,000 vehicles and the price tag north of $23 billion, according to defense sources.
Well, that’s not really surprising, We’ve been saying for a while now that the final price tag was likely to be in the neighborhood of $25 billion, but what is surprising is this:
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