Stryker MGS
Stryker MGS
“Anything is air-droppable...once.”
Fewer calories I guess. Everyone needs to look fabulous these days if you want to get promoted.
Sherman tank. Must be some sitting in a depot somewhere just waiting to roar back to life. Big plus is that they can be carried on the C-130.
Would you want your local PD with this? That’s their argument. The first thing they would want to do is use it in the open and it would be cut to pieces.
The limiter is not the vehicle, it’s the platform the vehicle will be dropped from. The Herc is still a great aircraft, but it’s tiny. The Galaxy has more wasted space under its tail than the 130 has in its entire cargo bay. I’d rather see them focus on finding ways to use the C-17 in this role, which would dramatically expand the possible candidates.
oh good....bammmey gets to award his supporters with some more spending sprees....
Full Circle.
I worked for GD. The Army begged us for a light tank. GD said, “Well, give us, oh, say $10,000,000 and we’ll do a design study. But we only do heavy armor and you only want heavy armor.” The Stryker is 26 tons (Abrams is 70 tons). The army wanted lighter but couldn’t get the money for a design study. The trend has been that companies invest their own money and then present their product to the military.
AM General, Oshkosh and Force Protection each invested about 1.5 billion of their own money and produced a “tank” based on a 6 ton chassis. The army loved it and took GD’s Abrams upgrade money and the Stryker money and bought lots of them. My guess is this will be the next “light” tank.
The army has attempted to get rid of the Abrams as they have several flaws that will make them unusable on future battlefields. Perhaps the biggest problem is the logistics stream of tankers required to keep the moving. Those will be vulnerable to RPV’s and other weapons. The next problem is there are now man carried weapons that can take them out from the rear. But the worst problem will be getting them to where they are needed.
So far Congress has prevented the army from dumping Abrams.
Light in the loafers tanks.
Next they will return stateside to be “donated” to local LEO
I thought airborne as in parachutes was dead. As a general rule, the airborne assaults in WW II were not really successful.
Bring back the Sheridan! :-)
Treadhead ping.
The MGS is not air droppable from a C-130 thus not meeting specifications. That Doesn’t mean the manufacturer won’t give stock options to the CJCS and Secretary of the Army to change the specs.
The OBVIOUS LOGICAL solution is to adopt the M-8 AGS that had already been accepted and approved for production prior to Clinton and Shinseki having the program cancelled.
There is a Block II variant of the M-8 called the Thunderbolt that had hybrid diesel electric drive,a 120mm main gun, and was so space efficient that there was room for two dismounts and a rear hatch similar to the Merkava MBT. The Thunderbolt was so quiet on battery power, that a safety warning beeper was installed for when it was moving in the factory.
The Armor is upgradable in packages. Level I was the Air Drop configuration. Levels II and III could be added in theater to increase protection.
FYI