To: Little Ray
Strykers are not tanks - they are not supposed to stand up to RPGs (RPGs were orignally designed to kill tanks).
Except that the original specs on the vehicle called for one which COULD withstand an RPG. Thats what it was sold as to the Army. This reminds me of that movie "The Pentagon Wars" about the development of the Bradley, and how it took an AF officer to force the Army to fix the damn thing. It eventually cost the guy his career.
120 posted on
08/26/2003 7:39:18 PM PDT by
Kozak
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To: Kozak
Sorry. The folks who wrote the specs are out of their minds. It is pretty silly to think that an 18 ton APC is going to stand up to something designed to kill 60 ton MBTs.
161 posted on
08/27/2003 6:01:20 AM PDT by
Little Ray
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