Posted on 05/26/2016 2:23:44 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
...The troops will be dropping with about 10 of their MRZR all-terrain vehicles made by Minnesota-based Polaris Defense. (MRZR is not an acronym but simply a designator, said a Polaris spokeswoman.)
The four-seat MRZRs were still a "pilot program" for the 82nd but were intended to give the paratroopers more mobility once they hit the ground. "It's a little more robust" than commercial ATVs, Tuley said.
"These vehicles significantly enhance what would otherwise be foot mobility," Brig. Gen. Brian Winski, deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne, told Bloomberg News. "They change the dynamic and turn what would have been a three-mile per hour operation into a 50-mile per hour operation."
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Looks like something out of Mad Max.
I want one.
That picture looks like a TX Wild Hog Hunt every weekend?
Right up until it said “Polaris”...
That looks like one of the vehicles they were testing at 29 palms in the early eighties.
The selection of the expensive HMMWV as the replacement for the Jeep.never seemed to make much sense compared to adopting a small fast vehicle like this which would be relatively cheap and investing in more LAVs for hot zones.
Finally, a replacement for the Jeep.
What a neat ride!
I could use one of those here in Vegas(outside).
It would be fun to mount a small black-powder cannon on it like the machine gun in the picture. Of course it might get a little smokey.
A little light on the armor?....
Wait till we start “up armoring” them and cut their speed down to a crawl.
I think it is good to have quick and cheap atvs.
The HumVee turned out to be more of a replacement for the M3 Scout Car than a Jeep, and it’s evolved into something more along the lines of the T17E.
I was with the 82nd Airborne Division back 1965 - at the time I was a recon scout. I have a photo of me standing up in a Jeep behind a M-60 machine gun. I thought I was so cool at the time. I did not have a clue.
If I had actually went into combat like that I would have been dead within the first minutes of contact.
Fortunately (?) when I got to Viet Nam I was assigned to Infantry.
This vehicle looks cool, but it depends on the mission it has.
As a recon scout survival is really based on not being heard or seen. Unless this vehicle is electric (and does not make much noise) I don’t see it surviving contact with the enemy.
Hits the civilian market as Mister ZR.
Those had their uses.
Some varieties had easily removed fenders.
The fenders made wonderful sleds at Camp Fuji.
Okay, not a combat use but still...
The 9th Infantry had the Fast Attack Vehicle in the 80s. Seems like a concept they drag out every few decades since the Desert Rats in WWII.
I am the Gamma Goat Driver.
I drives the Gamma Goat.
When the Gamma Goat needs mo gas.
I gets some mogas.
Actual briefing from a PFC to a group of VIPs.
I’ve seen those “Rat Patrol” Jeeps used as armor support at Fort Riley. Somewhere, I’ve got a picture of me behind an M60 on one too. If I’d actually tried to fire that thing while the Jeep was moving, I’d have blown the driver’s head off ... and probably my own to boot. Every twig the Jeep hit got transmitted up through the rigid mounting to the weapon. It was like trying to tie a pit viper in a knot.
Didn’t they have something even smaller for hauling mortars and stuff? I can’t remember what they were called. I think they had a small Briggs & Stratton type engine.
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