Posted on 06/28/2004 1:48:09 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
The first NZLAV platoon has now completed its extensive training and officially rolled out in a mounted parade at 1330 hours in Waiouru today.
The 45 crewmen, including drivers, gunners and commanders, trained with the Transition Training Team (TTT) for 17 weeks in Waiouru.
Major Mike Duncan of the TTT said, "I am very pleased with the way in that all the soldiers assimilated all the training and I'm very happy with the high standard of the crews."
The roll out brings an end to the individual component of the NZLAV crews training where they learnt all they needed to effectively operate the state-of-the-art vehicles.
In July the crewmen will deploy to Australia to take part in the combined exercise with the Australian Army, Exercise Predators Gallop. It will be their first collective training experience.
18 NZLAVs have already been deployed via sea to Australia in preparation for the exercise.
,,, you can't buy better advertising than this!
Ruffled? Me? Never.
I live practically next door to an airbase which could launch an attack on Hillin Clarke's pitiful government any time it chose. Heck, we should do it just to rattle a few windows in the Beehive... nah, be a waste of jetfuel.
No, not really.
Canadian manufacturing is basicly located in the extended suburbs of Detroit and/or Buffalo NY.
I can live with that. I'm sure there's plenty of Made In USA content.
Just don't go wasting your money on that inferior Euroweenie junk.
,,, you know, with Xao Helen in the hot seat right now I thought Air New Zealand was going to replace it's always BOEING fleet with AIRBUS models this time round. I think there's quite a buzz of excitement down here with us ordering 7E7s.
I'm afraid Boeing is in cahoots too deep with the Chicoms for me to consider them to be an American company anymore. I'm hoping that maybe Lockheed will get back into commercial aviation someday. Maybe after Boeing disintegrates from it's own idiocy.
It seems New Zealand took up the offer before Afghanistan kicked off.
This entire string is off track. There is a prevailing notion on here that the LAV IIIs bought by New Zealand somehow equal our Strykers. They don't. If anything, the New Zealand Army bought a vehicle with teeth. Not much armor and it will not go cross country but if it ever sees the enemy it can shoot it out with them.
Unlike what was said earlier, our Strykers were not descended from the Piranha III, they are direct descendents of the Piranha IV, a much less reliable vehicle that did not sell in Europe because all of those countries remembered what happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan. They lost 1,350+ pieces of wheeled armor before withdrawing it an bringing in tracked APCs.
Thankfully, the Pentagon has revisited the APC situation and is buying over a hundred of the Textron-built Armored Security Vehicles (ASV) and are buying an armor upgrade kit from United Technilogy made from old Bradley armor that will harden the M113A3s.
The only mention of Stryker is in Post 3. If the thread is about the NZLAV it is on track.
Where do you get your info?
I like the turret...
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