DUH!!!!!! we put more armor on humvees, they make bigger bombs! what do our military folks think that just because these folks are arabs and moslims that they are stupid?? Original Article IEDs stronger, Humvee deaths rise Matt Kelley USA Today May. 3, 2006 12:00 AM WASHINGTON - Although the Pentagon has strengthened the armor on more than 50,000 Humvees and other military vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan, roadside bombs are killing a rising number of U.S. troops, Pentagon records show. Most are dying in their Humvees, the workhorse vehicles the military scrambled to armor as the Iraqi insurgency grew over the past three years. Pentagon casualty reports say 62 U.S. troops have died this year in attacks on their Humvees involving improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. An additional 22 troops were killed when IEDs hit other military vehicles, including more heavily armored tanks and troop carriers. That is up from 27 in Humvees, and an additional 38 deaths involving IED attacks on other vehicles, in the first four months of 2005, according to Pentagon reports and USA Today's Iraq war database. Although the number of attacks on Humvees is also up this year, the increase in deaths is surprising given the additional armor. Military elected officials such as Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., had said added armor would help. Behind the higher death rate: Insurgents are changing their tactics, planting more powerful bombs and using different triggering methods to evade U.S. countermeasures. Newer IEDs are powerful enough to blow apart a 22-ton Bradley fighting vehicle or a tank. "The enemy adapts to everything we do," said military analyst Loren Thompson of the non-partisan Lexington Institute think tank in Arlington, Va. "It's not that we haven't found solutions. It's that the enemy has found ways to work around our solutions." To counter the threat, the Pentagon created the Joint IED Defeat Organization earlier this year. That agency plans to spend more than $3.7 billion this year to develop technology to detect or disarm IEDs. For example, the military ordered 3,858 electronic jamming systems in January from General Dynamics. The jammers are due in July, Pentagon records show.