Us Armys Stryker Armoured Fighting Vehicle

It has 4 wheel drive 84 and can be switched to all wheel drive 88.

Vehicles for sale zambezi. Two new stryker armored combat vehicle configurations are being fielded to the us. Army and are currently undergoing drills at aberdeen proving grounds in maryland. The american 88 stryker armoured fighting vehicle is a 3rd generation 8 wheel based family of armoured fighting vehicles employed by the us army.

The stryker is an eight wheeled armored vehicle designed to carry an infantry squad across roads and cross country to the battlefield. The stryker brigades are being used to implement network centric warfare doctrines and are intended to fill a gap between the united states highly mobile light infantry and its much heavier armored infantry. This is due to lobbying from general dynamics to congress in order to get the stryker incorporated into future army vehicle plans with the senate claiming time and funding may be wasted on developing a new medical evacuation variant when a wheeled combat vehicle has successfully deployed in combat with armored brigade combat teams referencing stryker medical vehicles deployed with some heavy brigades in iraq.

Stryker vehicles are produced by general dynamics land systems for the united states army. Its short service life after being deployed during the occupation of iraq has seen it being criticised as a poor substitute or replacement of the bradley as it lacks the offensive weaponry of ifvs to support its deployed troops as well as lacking the armour found on tracked ifvs. The stryker comprises two.

The stryker brigade is an organic combined arms unit of lightly armored medium weight wheeled vehicles and is organized differently from the infantry or armored brigade combat teams. The icv infantry carrier vehicle stryker is a family of eight wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the canadian lav iii. M1126 interim armored vehicle iav m1126 stryker iav has two variants.

As originally conceived the stryker would have light armor. The stryker interim armored vehicle iav is a 19 ton eight wheeled armored vehicle that provides the army a family of ten different vehicles on a common chassis. The army has posted a trial request for proposals for its 45 billion omfv program aiming to procure 3800 armored vehicles to replace the 40 year old m2 bradley.

The vehicle includes obstacle clearing and lane marking systems as. The vehicles are the result of. M1132 engineer squad vehicle esv is the combat engineering variant of the stryker wheeled armored fighting vehicle.