MRV APC?

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To make a vehicle mine resistant you have to cool the heat of the blast, deflect the blast, and make it possible for the blast to escape without damaging the vehicle too much. A mine resistant vehicle has to be high off the ground, tracked vehicles usually aren't. The bottom is shaped in a vee to deflect the blast away from the troop compartment or crew compartment. Wheels are made to come off easily, so that if the wheel rolls over a mine, the force easily escapes from under the vehicle. Tracks AFAIK can't be made to do that. Much better descriptions of how it's done are contained in Peter Cooke's Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia, and Taming the Landmine by Peter Stiff.

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