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To: ASOC
The Strykers are...not something I would ever ride in.

Nor are the Stynkers amphibious, so don't try to cross a blue line on your map in one. At least the Marine 8-wheelies can cross rivers, given reasonable flow rates and an undefended or lightly defended gently sloped opposite riverbank.

A lightweight tank - a “Sheridan V2.0” if you would, would give planners at least some tracked armor light enough for limited MOUT operations.

Think a Sheridan turret on an M2 Bradley chassis. The Australians used something very similar with a Sheridan turret on an M113 *Bucket* chassis in Vietnam, very useful when canister fire support was called for. There are a lot of those little flechette roofing nails in a 152mm round.

58 posted on 03/02/2017 8:34:15 PM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: archy

You are talking about the M113FSV. They mounted a turret off the Saladin armored car with a 76mm gun.


64 posted on 03/02/2017 8:54:20 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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