SHIELDS GRANITE TACTICAL VEHICLES INC. DEVELOPS NEW FOLDING GUNNERS PROTECTIVE ARMORED TURRET Vehicle Height Reduced by 19 inches During Storage and Transport, Turret Rapidly Re-Erected... Mount Airy, NC, August 20, 2012 Granite Tactical Vehicles, Inc. (www.granitetacticalvehicles.com), a designer and manufacturer of armored vehicles for government and law... enforcement agencies and private security contractors announced the launch today of its folding gunners protective armored turret. The turret when folded flat is lower than any other turret...

and unprotected tactical wheeled vehicles, those with 'medium' amounts of armor plating and mine protection were highly effective at reducing the fatalities in units exposed to heavy... combat." In other words, the authors write, up-armored humvees, which cost $170,000, were just as effective at reducing IED casualties as MRAPs, which cost $600,000. "For infantry... vehicles with 'heavy' amounts of protection, such as the MRAP (which has higher quality armor and a V-shaped hull designed to improve resistance to IEDs), did not save more lives than...