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I feel another post here is necessary to bring this back into focus, as it looks like it's running away again. Important to notice: the information posted by EnteJager in post #47 was from a HMMWV accident last year. I do recall that accident too. If anything it would suggest "don't enlist to...

I'll admit this thread is drifting quite a bit from the topic so this is my final post to the thread until more actual information about the original accident comes in - the post-mortem stills at the end of the video (which I posted to simply illustrate the difference between a roof structure...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsQIKlcbsM This video shows the difference between the roll-over capabilities of all variants of armoring from soft-top/doors to fully up armored.

A 1.5" square tube is not "ROPS" stuctural. This was not an up armored HMMWV from the pictures, it was a soft-top with soft doors. This truck's roof did as well as I expect a convertible's roof and windshield to do in a roll-over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaholyhSZC0

Just looking at the lack of skid marks, it actually looks like this may be driver error (my estimate). From the photos and video that were made available, it looks like the HMMWV slid along the guardrail and before the driver was able to correct, the passenger side front tire caught one of the...