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Snowmobile/Motorcyle Maker Polaris + NASCAR Tech = Cutting Edge Special Ops Vehicle 'DRAGOR'
Reaganite Republican ^ | 16 October 2014 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 10/16/2014 3:14:16 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican

Apparently getting out of the jet-ski business opened up far greener pastures in the high-tech, 21st-century military vehicle market for Minnesota-based snowmobile/ATV/electric vehicle manufacturer Polaris
(who also produce Victory and Indian big bikes through their motorcycle subsidiary).


First they concocted a clever 2-man mini-jeep -the Polaris MV850- with computer-designed tires that require no air, able to operate even after sustaining damage from gunfire or shrapnel. They've also spun-out a line of small, lightweight military support/patrol vehicles loosely-based on their existing consumer products, including the MRZR in both 2-man and 4-man configurations.

But NOW they're getting serious: aiming for a Pentagon light-vehicle contract, Polaris has teamed-up with NASCAR builders (trucks and cars) Roush Engineering to engineer and produce a small, hyper-flexible (modular) ATV specifically designed for use by Special Operations Forces: meet the DRAGOR- this one can actually seat nine troops and their packs/weapons, a big move up from Polaris' current offerings.

DRAGOR offers radical all-terrain capabilities at full payload, yet a curb weight less than 4,500lbs (to maximize range of airborne delivery). The width of the vehicle is intended to allow quick loading
onto CH-47/CH-53 helicopters, or even sling-loaded under the UH-60 Black Hawk (can be air-dropped). 

The turbo-Diesel V-8 allows a 500-mile range, and it can even mount heavy weaponry. DRAGOR lists for $149,000 a copy, and Polaris Defense reports that they've already taken an order from some SE Asian country.

Can you image in the little motorized brigade we could just drop into an isolated canyon somewhere... with the requisite Special Ops troops and a maybe one of those high-tech SOF K-9 units...


Pics/graphics at Reaganite Republican


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: atv; military; sof; vehicle
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1 posted on 10/16/2014 3:14:17 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler; gattaca; bayliving; SeminoleCounty; chesley; Vendome; ...

***ping***


2 posted on 10/16/2014 3:15:12 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican
interesting...


3 posted on 10/16/2014 3:18:28 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: BCW

Some of this stuff has got to eventually find it’s way to the consumer market... WANT! lol


4 posted on 10/16/2014 3:19:37 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: BCW
DRAGOR


5 posted on 10/16/2014 3:20:40 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Need three copies.

1 for bugout cabin and the 1 mile tunnel I’ll build , in case my casa is over run.

2. As my bugout vehicle to my bugout palace.

3. My ride to Tahoe


6 posted on 10/16/2014 3:29:51 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: BCW

Bingo.

Slap two coffins on top to carry snowboards and gear...

Good to go...


7 posted on 10/16/2014 3:32:25 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Reaganite Republican

150,000 for a souped up UTV?


8 posted on 10/16/2014 3:34:28 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

“150,000 for a souped up UTV?”

My company built a box the size of six stacked cigarette packs in a half inch thick housing that contained a relay and about six resistors and charged the Army $35,000 for it. Mostly, the expense is the customer’s fault. They demand sometimes ludicrous testing. There was, for example, no reason for the inordinately thick case. It wasn’t mounted in an area subject to shock waves and if ordinance exploded in the tank and killed the crew the fact that the box survived would not be relevant. Yes, you could pressure wash the inside and still use the tank, but there were a dozen better and cheaper ways to have done this. (Also, cost saving suggestions were actively discouraged by the company and there was no system in place to collect or evaluate them.)


9 posted on 10/16/2014 3:43:26 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: wetphoenix

150,000 for a souped up UTV?
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Yeah but Obola can airdrop these to ISIS troops.


10 posted on 10/16/2014 3:44:11 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: BCW

Where are the mounts for the MA Deuce? Should be top Center on the roll cage.


11 posted on 10/16/2014 3:47:26 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Reaganite Republican

I just bought a new 570 sportsman last week & saw this on the website....I love the airless tires. Great products


12 posted on 10/16/2014 3:48:30 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: Reaganite Republican

Not bulletproof or mine protected, so it won’t be adopted. After the Iraq war, regular HMMWVs are out, and slow, thirsty, personal mini-tank MRAPs are in.


13 posted on 10/16/2014 3:48:32 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Gen.Blather

I suspect something like that but from the look of this vehicle it lacks any protection, it is rather heavy and it’s lower side geometry indicates poor cross-country capabilities too.


14 posted on 10/16/2014 3:51:02 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: Vendome
for bugout cabin and the 1 mile tunnel I’ll build , in case my casa is over run.

You'd better get digging, then. You've got less than a year left.

15 posted on 10/16/2014 3:54:35 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Yo-Yo

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/item_archive/items/GI_Joe_BTR_Armadillo_Assault_Vehicle.asp


16 posted on 10/16/2014 3:59:20 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Linky Thing: It's DAGOR, not DRAGOR

17 posted on 10/16/2014 4:17:20 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Posted Your Link on this weeks NASCAR Thread
18 posted on 10/16/2014 5:32:57 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Coming to a civilian police department near you


19 posted on 10/16/2014 5:40:29 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Polaris + Roush = HOLY COW!

The only other question I could think to ask...

What kind of weapons will be mounted?

Mad Max ping..


20 posted on 10/16/2014 5:43:02 AM PDT by moovova
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