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The Stryker can' outrun diddly.
That's the point.
It is unstable on even flat ground, so they stick 'requirements and restrictions' on speed of turns and operating 'parameters' that are unrealistic in actual combat.
Despite Shinseki's quaalude induced hallucination, wheels are NOT more manueverable than tracked vehicles.
A tank can turn within it's own body length.
In urban combat, that is a plus.
The Stryker has the turn radius of a greyhound buss.
A tank can run over sharp objects, Stryker cannot.
A tank can cross rolling terrain at speed.
Stryker would be lucky to not roll over like a dog on flat ground let alone rolling terrain.

The Stryker MGS cannot fire in a full arc around itself, and required reduced poweder rounds to prevent flipping when fired broadside.
And it STILL flips when fried broadside producing them to make a requirement to not fire broadside.
NOT realistic in combat.
The Stryker will be a liability in North Korea rather than an asset.
It is designed specifically for paved improved roads like those here in the US.
That is where it operates the best.
I do not know of any country we might operate in where the roads will stay in pristine form during combat, let alone having a network of roads like what we have here.

Archy, anything to add that I might have missed?

Archy, anything to add that I might have missed?

A couple of things: limitations on depression of the Stryker's main gun and co-axial machinegun from the anti-RPG *slat armor* being placed on Strykers in-theatre. The amount of fuel/ammo to be carried aboard the gun Strykers, if they're ever really fielded, and what effect the extra weight of the turret and gun system will have on a vehicle whose ready-to-run-on-Baghdad-streets now approaches 25 tons... and whose axles were designed more for 15 T., and can't withstand the recoil fromn a 120mm mortar projectile's launch. The effect of stacked mines or other enhancements against a Stryker with HEAT rounds stored aboard may be interesting too; hopefully the crew numbers aboard the gun-Strykers will be reduced by half or more, which may keep the numbers down.

But unless the Afghanis/Iraqis begin using BTR 80/90 wheelies against US troops, there's no real reason for gun-Strykers to be fielded, other than to clain they've been *tested in combat.* And it's a pretty high price to pay if one or more are lost, and it's made clear that they're not even capable against dismounted infantry.

I wonder how the Israelis plan to use the ones they've announced they wish to acquire. And how they plan to modify them; its a good bet the bedframe armor is NOT in their plans.

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