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To: Terabitten
It does, however, look like a Stryker/LAV.

I wonder how much of the design is copied or outright stolen from the Stryker? Or could it be that given similar mission(s) and constraints the designs naturally evolve to something very similar to each other?

17 posted on 09/25/2013 9:36:46 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: ThunderSleeps
"I wonder how much of the design is copied or outright stolen from the Stryker?"

The Soviets/Russians were big users of wheeled armor long before the concept caught on in the US with the LAV and later the Stryker. If anything, our designs, or at least a lot of the initial concepts, were based in many ways on the successes and failures of Soviet wheeled vehicles in Afghanistan.

35 posted on 09/26/2013 5:48:41 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ThunderSleeps
I wonder how much of the design is copied or outright stolen from the Stryker? Or could it be that given similar mission(s) and constraints the designs naturally evolve to something very similar to each other?

I think the latter. The requirements more-or-less dictate the final form.

36 posted on 09/29/2013 3:06:03 PM PDT by Terabitten (I'd rather have one Walker than fourteen runners.)
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