[Calpernia]

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The Stryker, an eight-wheeled infantry transporter, is an armored vehicle designed to stop 124.5 mm rounds. Critics said the main threat in Iraq is rocket-propelled grenades, and that the vehicle would not provide protection from them.

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[Servant of the 9]

Standoff Armour to defeat shaped charge warheads is nothing new. It was employed in the last days of WWII.
The problem is that that 18" standoff on each side makes the vehicle 3 feet wider than it was and limits the very mobility the stryker was supposed to supply.

SO9

[mark502inf]

The patrol was conducting neighborhood engagement, interacting with local citizens.

I hope all their "interacting" isn't like this!

"It did exactly was it was intended to do," he continued. "When the [RPG]round impacted on the slat armor, it detonated the warhead. The round defused in that space."

Been waiting to see if that contraption worked--good news. And you know the soldiers have had to wonder as well--this news may increase confidence & aggressiveness.

[finnman69]

[JasonC]

"The crew identified the assailant and tried to call an OH-58 helicopter in on it, but the helicopter crew was unable to regain contact"

The Stryker didn't return fire and KO the shooters itself because... Oh right, it doesn't have a turret or any real firepower, so it was just a target with a radio. Because all our guns are in the air. The pentawhizzers decided that only things that fly need to shoot.

[archy]

Army officials outfitted the Strykers with what the soldiers call a "cage." The slat armor put on the vehicles in Kuwait does look like a cage. It encircles the vehicle and gives added protection to the body of the Stryker. It is slats placed about 18 inches away from the main body. The theory was that an RPG would hit the slat and "defuse" between the slat and the main armor, said Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, the brigade commander.

The theory was exactly right, he said. "A bit earlier this morning there was an RPG attack against a Stryker vehicle in the eastern part of Mosul," he said to reporters traveling with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. "It was the second attack against a Stryker, but the first to strike the slat armor.

"It did exactly was it was intended to do," he continued. "When the round impacted on the slat armor, it detonated the warhead. The round defused in that space."

There were no casualties of any kind, he said, and there was "very, very minor damage to the vehicle."

The round struck the front of the vehicle above its slat armor cage, cutting a hose inside the engine compartment. The vehicle commander suffered a superficial cut near his nose, officials said.

Uh-huh... so the shaped charge jet of the PG-7 grenades IS getting through. And if it gets to that 40mm High Explosive ammunition, grenades or engineer demolition charges carred on board....

Stowed Ammunition
(32) 66mm smoke grenades
(3200) 7.62mm rounds
(2000) .50 cal rounds OR
(430) MK19 rounds

Four hundred-plus Mk 19 grenades, sympathetic detonating inside a Stryker...I hope the crews have some GOOD earplugs.