Try this one:
Or, there's a Rambler Marlin Sports Fastback
Posted on 12/02/2004 1:54:22 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
General Dynamics received a $206 million order from the U.S. Army on Thursday for 95 Stryker combat vehicles, including the first production of a new model that can detect nuclear, biological and chemical agents.The order is a part of $4 billion contract the company's General Dynamics Land Systems unit was awarded in 2000.
The Army's latest Stryker order also includes delivery of a new mobile gun system model, which is armed with a 105mm tank cannon with "shoot on the move" capability.
The Stryker is a class of eight-wheel armored vehicles that can travel up to 62 miles an hour, and is equipped with weapons mounts, a digital communications system, periscopes and a video camera with thermal imagery. It is lighter, faster and more versatile than existing military tanks and armored vehicles.
The vehicle has been tested in Iraq and can be configured for use in nuclear, biological and chemical weapons reconnaissance, anti-tank guided missiles, medical evacuation, and for transporting mortars, fire support teams and troops.
General Dynamics () said production will begin in 2005 at various plants around the United States and is expected to be completed by 2006. The Army expects to have six Stryker combat teams by 2008.
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Isn't there a rule here aboutt photos . . . ? 8^)
CBS and ABC are very interested in the NBC technology...(G)
What kind of mileage?
Well, not really. Stryker is doing great for the mission. I've heard good things coming form the Sandbox about it.
I'll find out more when I get there.
WHEN is the civilian aftermarket going to make this for my Miata??? Sigh.
Great, then US won't need the Fux from EU Weasel Germany, since Stryker can do ABC, protect against rockets and do offensive fighting.
Go US!
Last I heard the darn thing might roll over from the recoil if the gun was fired at any angle other than straight forward. One wonders how the suddenly achieved a "shoot on the move" capability.
Rolling over counts as moving, correct?
Looks like the shop I work at will be getting more work for GD soon.
looks a lot like a Fox ... only not crap weasel and it's
better.
I've been driving one of these things around on "Joint Operations, Typhoon Rising" for months now, take my word for it they're awesome! LOL
More info at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/iav-mgs.htm
M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System
The two variations of the LAV III that will be produced for the Interim Armored Vehicle program are the Infantry Carrier Vehicle and the Mobile Gun System. The Stryker Mobile Gun System carries a 105mm cannon, the same gun tube as the one on the original M-1 Abrams tank. This is not a tank replacement, but it gives a direct fire capability to support the infantry elements. The principal function of the Mobile Gun System (MGS) is to provide rapid and lethal direct fires to support assaulting infantry. The MGS is a key weapons overmatch platform to ensure mission success and survivability of the Combined Arms Company.
With a successful LRIP decision, Stryker brigade first unit equipped date for the MGS is scheduled for April 2005.
Successful decisive combat operations are characterized by the application of overwhelming precision firepower in a killing zone while countering the enemy’s ability to effectively return fire. The IBCT’s Combined Arms Company operations are conducted in a collective synchronization of overmatching firepower to ensure success. The MGS is essential in setting and maintaining the tactical conditions for this collective overmatch by providing the capability to rapidly and in succession engage and destroy a diversity of stationary and mobile threat personnel, infrastructure, and materiel targets. It will have the capability to apply a broad spectrum of munitions with lethal effects under all weather and visibility conditions.
In applying lethal effects as part of the Combined Arms Company, the MGS will survive on the battlefield by taking advantage of the high levels of threat and situational understanding resident in the Brigade formation. It will engage enemy positions and targets as part of the Combined Arms Company from ranges and locations outside the enemy’s kill zone capability. It will avoid high risk terrain profiles. Its inherent mobility and agility will enable it to deliver precision fires from alternate and successive positions outside the enemy’s acquisition and fire delivery reaction time.
The Mobile Gun System configuration carries a General Dynamics 105mm tank cannon in a low-profile, fully stabilized, “shoot on the move” turret. Its armor protects the three-soldier crew from machine gun bullets, mortar and artillery fragments on the battlefield. The Stryker Mobile Gun System can fire 18 rounds of 105-mm main gun ammunition; 400 rounds of .50 caliber ammunition; and 3,400 rounds of 7.62-mm ammunition. It operates with the latest C4ISR equipment as well as detectors for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
The Stryker Mobile Gun System [MGS] will employ four types of 105mm tactical ammunition. High explosive/high explosive plastic (HE/HEP) ammunition will destroy hardened enemy bunkers, machinegun and sniper positions, and create openings in walls through which infantry can pass. Kinetic energy (KE) ammunition will be employed to destroy a variety of Level II armored vehicles. High explosive, anti-tank (HEAT) ammunition is well suited to defeat a variety ofthin-skinned vehicles and provide fragmentation effects. Finally, anti-personnel (canister) ammunition will defeat attacking dismounted infantry in the open. HE/HEP, KE and HEAT each have or will have complementary training ammunition.
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