[centurion316]

Last time I checked, the cupboard was pretty bare of heavy units ready to deploy. When Stryker Brigade conversion is complete, the net result will be an Army that is heavier, more mobile (once deployed), and that possesses more firepower than before.

Comparisons are best done within the same class of vehicle and within the same doctrinal concept of employment. For example: M1A1 tank with Challeger; Saxon with Stryker; M2 Bradley with Warrior IFV. You get the picture.

[SJSAMPLE]

That would be good if two similar vehicles were up for the same job. But the Stryker is being billed as a more deployable alternative to the Bradley, not as an alternative to light infantry.

When they make a decision to deploy a Stryker unit, it will only be after they've eliminated the more capable Bradley from consideration. Then, when they try to cram it into a C130, they'll realize that air deployment of heavy assets is futile in a crunch, and they'll (hopefully) go back to sealift and Bradleys.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Saxon

I would settle for a comparison of the Piranha III/ LAV III/ NZLAV to the Stryker.