To: Servant of the Nine
Once the armour is uprated it will be too heavy to fly at all in any but the latest model C-130 which is only a fraction of the fleet.The clincher in the case against this design. Time to shit-can this little toy made for someone's career advancement.
156 posted on
08/27/2003 3:52:27 AM PDT by
Paul Ross
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To: Paul Ross
Perhaps you are right. On the other hand maybe not.
I guess I just am not sure what alternative folks want us to go for. The Stryker will likely be fielded to only 4 Brigades (I predict the 2CR and NG will never see the Stryker's, but I have NO inside information that tells me that....just a gut feeling). In three of these Brigades the soldiers were walking or riding in trucks/Hummers.
The Stryker was never meant to be the final vehicle, nor was it meant to be widely distributed, nor was it meant to replace the tank or Bradley. It is an interum vehicle with limited distribution to give us some increased capability now while we test concepts and equipment. That's all.
To: Paul Ross
The clincher in the case against this design. Time to shit-can this little toy made for someone's career advancement.
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Career advancement? You are blowing smoke: Shinseki husbanded this project to fruition as he was about to ride off into the sunset. He has already hung up his uniform.
(He will very probably soon reappear as a Democratic senator from Hawaii, however.)
253 posted on
08/29/2003 7:38:32 PM PDT by
BenR2
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