First NZ Light Armoured Vehicle Platoon Rolls Out

Scoop ^ | 28 June 2004

[shaggy eel]

And the only reason New Zealand doesn't get an influx of so-called refugees is because it's too damn far from anywhere, and you know it.

,,, you can't buy better advertising than this!

[Cannoneer No. 4]

New Zealand Soldiers Injured in Afghanistan

[KangarooJacqui]

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.

[Willie Green]

,,, Willie, I hope you're not put out because these vehicles are Canadian.

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.

[shaggy eel]

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.

[Willie Green]

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.

[gungadin]

The Coalition of The Willing is still open for applicants!

It seems New Zealand took up the offer before Afghanistan kicked off.

[Vetvoice]

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.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The only mention of Stryker is in Post 3. If the thread is about the NZLAV it is on track.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Stryker is based on the GDLS Canada LAV III 8x8 light armoured vehicle, in service since early 2001. The LAV III is itself a version of the Piranha III built by Mowag of Switzerland, now part of GDLS - Europe.

Piranha III is a family of armoured wheeled vehicles developed by Mowag Motorwagenfabriken of Switzerland, now part of General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems (ELCS). General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada (formerly General Motors Defense) also produce a version of the Piranha III known as the LAV III.

Mowag has introduced the Piranha IV 8x8, the latest vehicle in the Piranha family of wheeled armoured vehicles. The first prototype has been completed and the second is in production.

army-technology.com

Where do you get your info?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[Vetvoice]

I like the turret...