[Cannoneer No. 4]

Army seeks public comment on Stryker impact survey

The approximately 300 eight-wheeled armored vehicles that make up a Stryker Brigade Combat Team wouldn't start arriving until early 2006

If the brigade is approved, the military would need an additional 23,000 acres on the Big Island, 1,400 acres on O'ahu, and land for 49 miles of private trails to keep the 20-ton Strykers off public roads as much as possible during training.

The vehicles would be based at Schofield and travel by private trail to Dillingham Airfield and Kahuku Training Area for training. Strykers also would be transported by C-17 cargo jets, and use Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island.

[inPhase]

Is testing going on at WSMR and Yuma as well?

[Kenny Bunk]

So lemme see here. We got the venetian-blind RPG catcher shell, inside of that, we got the ceramic HMG-stoppers, proof against the 14.5mm COMBLOC round, but not the 23mm COMBLOC, which is kind of hard to hide, but was produced in the millions. Then finally, we get down to the actual Stryker

So the first two RPG rounds blow away all this crap, then what happens? Please God, the boys will dismount about a mile from town and go in in some appropriate patrol formation, with artillery back-up, and on-call air. THis is a big taxi-cab ... no kind of fighting vehicle.

You could not drive this thing down an American alley.It will be immobile and helpless in the rabbit warren towns and villages of the rest of the world.

[CO_dreamer]

Wouldn't it be a helluva lot cheaper to transport them by freighter? Jeez, airmailing them to Oahu for training seems a bit extreme. It's not like they are being rushed to a combat zone. How many C-17's does it take to airlift 300 Strykers to Hawaii anyway?