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The Stryker is vunerable tp RPG fire. This was found out rather quickly, apparently. So now it is deployed with a scrabbled-together anti-RPG armor which, guess what, makes it too heavy to be air-transportable,which was the whole point in the first place. Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand the brilliance of this concept...

Me neither, but like pro-Bush says above, "it's better than the hummer." And he means safer, more firepower, etc.

I'm thinking that the rpg attacks have really died down recently. Any idea why? Are we confiscating all of them?

If a Stryker is too heavy with the anti-RPG package bolted on, the armor package(s) will be flown in on another plane.

If you can lift 1 Stryker (38,000 lbs) with a C-130 (payload weight 42,000 lbs), you can carry 8 armor packages (5,000 lbs) on another C-130. Even if the combined weight of a Stryker and the up-armor package was less than 42K lbs., the total width probably exceeds the 119 inch width limit of the C-130 cargo bay. Actually, when a vehicle is shipped in a C-130, there should be enough space between the side of the vehicle and inside of the C-130 for the crew to get by. Most big vehicles are around 8' wide (96") that leaves a 2 foot wide gap. The armor prolly extends out around 12" on all sides, so no go.