Here's a Hellfire turret for the Pandur, I believe.
The Bradly turret offers a two shot TOW missile plus the use of the main 30mm. The pic below is Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH Pandur II with a nice turret somewhat like the Bradley.
Posted on 02/02/2006 2:41:42 AM PST by Cannoneer No. 4
That or a pair of miniguns. My PSG and I were talking about that very thing. And an ability to reload inside the vehicle would be nice. Oh well.
.....was just about to ping you......
Here's a Hellfire turret for the Pandur, I believe.
The Bradly turret offers a two shot TOW missile plus the use of the main 30mm. The pic below is Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH Pandur II with a nice turret somewhat like the Bradley.
That'd be great, if the M551 was still available to those clearing cities of snipers and other unfriendlies, particularly wire or laser-guided ones...which Noriega's *Dignity Battalions* did not have available, good thing for us. Given the current vehicles/launch systems available, an inexpensive unguided round for the TOW launcher with a HE or HESH warhead rather than a HEAT charge would seem to be the next best thing. You could even fire a M551 with the turret turned 90º to the side without recourse tooutriggers or engineer-prepared firing positions, though it wasn't the happiest experience in the world. I never saw it done with one of the Shillelagh missiles, however, and suspect that would have been a maintenance-intensive event.
During the closing days of the Second World War, 1944-'45, Patton's Third Army claimed the best tool for mopping up those urban areas that couldn't be bypassed as per Third Army SOP was the 155mm self-propelled howitzer, at that time most commonly found mounted on a Sherman tank chassis. 120mm mortars carried aboard Strykers seem an unlikely replacement for that role, though there are some Soltam and Tampella direct-fire mortars available just right for fitting on a wheeled transporter chassis.
Too, it might be possible to fit an M551 turret on a Bradley chassis as a fire support vehicle, but that wouldn't satisfy the transformational trackless tyrants. Of course, there's also the stretched M113 chassis the Finns have developed for the AMOS twin-mortar system...and there IS an *AMOS FIN* single-barrel variant mounted on an 8-wheeler.
Bump for later
May I add you to the Stryker ping list? Your comments would be highly valued.
Of course.
The ATGM was useful in Iraq. We used our TOWS to great effect on the enemy. My concern with the MGS variant is that it can't really self-secure like the ATGM can.
That said, if they put it into a hunter-killer team... well... the enemy are gonna be hating life.
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