[Blood of Tyrants]

The last place you want to be when being attacked by RPG's is in a LAV. Especially in a city street where you cannot turn around.

[centurion316]

The last place you want to be when being attacked by RPG's is in a LAV.

I don't agree. The last place you want to be includes HMMWVs, trucks, AAV's, M113s, LAV-25. The first place you want to be is in a M-1. Stryker lies somewhere in between.

Mr. Lind errs by comparing the Stryker and the LAV-25 with the M-1 tank. No such comparison is possible, and certainly not meaningful. What Stryker does provide is enhanced mobility, enhanced firepower, enhanced optics for surveillance, enhanced command and control; along with limited protection from artillery, small arms, and with add-on armor (being fitted to those Strykers being deployed to Iraq), protection from RPG's.

The Stryker is not replacing the M-1, nor the M-2. Like any weapons system, it must be employed in accordance with its capabilities and limitations. Mr Lind, who has never heard a shot fired in anger, would be unlikely to understand such subtleties.

[King Prout]

the best place to be when involved in urban combat is... somewhere else.
slow, blind, heavy, large vehicles do not belong in urban combat, especially in scenarios where the enemy is nested among "innocent civilians" and the large weapons a tank or dedicated demolitions vehicle cannot be used.
street-fighting is for mobile infantry and snipers.