Posted on 12/22/2003 7:01:17 AM PST by centurion316
Soldiers on Saturday investigate the burned hulk of a Stryker destroyed by an improvised explosive device during an attack at Forward Operating Base Pacesetter. Guerilla forces ambushed a Stryker patrol near Samarra, destroying one vehicle — the first Stryker to be lost to hostile fire. The four-soldier crew escaped, but one soldier was injured in the attack.
Spc. Christopher Wilson, left, and Sgt. Randall Davis, a sniper team for Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, hold sniper rifles used during operations in and around Samarra. Leaders maintain that the Stryker brigade’s abundance of snipers is ideal for limiting collateral damage and civilian casualties during guerilla-style fighting.
Sniper Sgt. Randall Davis peers down the holographic scope of the M-14 sniper rifle he used during operations in and around Samarra. Since mid-December, Davis has been credited with eight confirmed kills and two “probables,” a count no soldier in the brigade has matched.
Good grief.
What happened to the Stryker's supposed advantages as a carrier of the 9-man Infantry squad?
It looks like some of the guys have caught on, and are now riding on top of their vehicles.
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Doesn't sound like these guys were riding outside.
Good grief.
Could have been worse. They could have named it Great White.
I've got one patent in trigger groups, and another, never produced, in the patent drawing and prototype stage, two in silencer/suppressor designs, and one developable for a unique operating system, with a possible spinoff suitable for a vehicular-deployed system. I've worked for both Army Ordnance and the Navy's Fleet Logistics Support center on small arms projects, and have a couple of current civilian irons in the fire as well. I do like to tinker, and most every time something new comes along, I like to think of how it might be applied among existing devices.
But what's more likely called for here is a better combination of existing or developable systems, rather than any breakthrough single item or process. Think of a bunch of hotrodders trying to change engines around.
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Army officials suggested increasing each brigade's number of Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal (SMART-T) systems from three to five and replacing each unit's 44 Near-Term Digital Radio Systems and Mobile Subscriber Equipment-Triservice Tactical Terminals with 53 Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) and Wide-Area Network Single Shelter Switch Baseband Nodes
EO Tech HWS holographic sighting system info and Shockwave demo *here.* 
Interesting, I've run across the LRAS3 Humvees, but not the recon Stryker version yet. I wonder if the Iraqi picked that one to pop his mine beneath because of that great lump up top.
All the commo and C4 infrastructure of the Stryker units should be an ideal match for a couple of recon variants. I wonder if we'll field one like the Canadian *cherrypicker* recon LAV IIIs.
Cav variant - 4-man crew. Infantry version is the only one that carries an infantry squad.
Interesting. The Canaduians also run a 4-man crew in their similar Coyote LAV-III recon vehicle, just as we did in the 1965-era M114 recon tracks.
damn blurry monitor...
Same same here...they sounded pretty tight, worked well.
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