The Cost-Effectiveness of Armored Tactical Wheeled Vehicles for Overseas Us Army Operations

Abstract

This study uses for official use only data on US military operations to evaluate the large-scale Army policies to replace relatively light Type 1 tactical wheeled vehicles (TWVs) with more heavily protected Type 2 variants and later to replace Type 2s with more heavily protected Type 3s. We find that Type 2 TWVs reduced fatalities at $1.1 million-$24.6 million per life saved for infantry units, with our preferred cost estimates falling below the $7.5 million cost-effectiveness threshold, and did not reduce fatalities for administrative and support units. We find that replacing Type 2 with Type 3 TWVs did not appreciably reduce fatalities and was not cost-effective.

Combat, casualties, and compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan

“…Economists have found the values for VSL estimates in the $6 million–$14 million ($2019) range (Aldy and Viscusi 2007, 2008; Kniesner, Viscusi, Woock, and Ziliak 2012; Kniesner, Leeth, and Sullivan 2015; Leeth and Ruser 2003; Rohlfs, Sullivan, and Kniesner 2015; Viscusi 1993, 2004; Viscusi and Aldi 2003). Although there has been some work using VSL estimates in military settings, there is currently no standard VSL estimate in place within the Department of Defense to use on personnel matters (Greenstone, Ryan, and Yankovich 2017; Kniesner, Leeth, and Sullivan 2015; Rohlfs and Sullivan 2013; Rohlfs, Sullivan, and Kniesner 2016; Rohlfs, Sullivan, Treistman, and Deng 2015; Viscusi 2019).…”

Combat, Casualties, and Compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan

“…Economists have found the values for VSL estimates in the $4 million-$10 million range Viscusi 2007, 2008;Kniesner, Viscusi, Woock, and Ziliak 2012;Kniesner, Leeth, and Sullivan 2015;Leeth and Ruser 2003;Rohlfs, Sullivan, and Kniesner 2015;Viscusi and Aldi 2003;andViscusi 1993, 2004). Although there has been some work using VSL estimates in military settings, there is currently no standard VSL estimate in place within the Department of Defense to use on personnel matters (Greenstone, Ryan, and Yankovich 2017;Kniesner, Leeth, and Sullivan 2015;Rohlfs and Sullivan 2013;Rohlfs, Sullivan, Treistman, and Deng 2015;Rohlfs, Sullivan, and Kniesner 2016). VSLs vary by the risk preferences of the group considered.…”

Applied Research of Applicability of High-Strength Steel for a Track of a Demining Machine in Term of Its Tribological Properties

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