Hat tip to Bruce for pointing me to Vuurwapen Blog.
Hmm.
I can't tell much from this angle. I'll contact Andrew and see if he has more pics of this.
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Shepard has a good article up on this vehicle now. What caught my eye immediately were the narrow tracks, but GD says they're already looking to replace those. Other than that I still don't know. To be honest I still have misgivings about basing a tracked vehicle on a wheeled vehicles platform. Generally, wheeled vehicles are larger than tracks when having the same internal volume because of the room that is required to house the wheels suspension system. If GD has cracked the code and is using the extra space given because of the switch to tracks then good. If its the same then they might have been better served starting with a clean sheet.
Definitely need to get my hands on the data sheet. This should be interesting.
Well that's interesting. Sparky would love it.
ReplyDeleteForget that Stryker thingy, that is one awesome picture of AAVs on the steel beach. Any chance of link so I can put it on my desktop please?
ReplyDeleteshoot me an e-mail and i'll send you the image.
DeleteCan that Stryker thing swim?
ReplyDeletei would say no. the stryker can't and i don't see propulsion or a swim vane on it so i don't see it happening.
DeleteI see two Plt of Strykers, one tracked one wheels run them through some simulations of different scenarios and see what works, I volunteer to drive one for the Army guys!
ReplyDeletethey wouldn't dare. tracks beats wheels everytime when it comes to mobility..especially if you add band tracks. the problem is fuel consumption. that's where wheels win.
DeleteI don't think it's a tracked Stryker at all but these days if you name it after an existing vehicle that counts as "off the shelf", or at least it's enough to fool congress and that's the name of the game.
ReplyDeleteConverting a wheeled design to a tracked one has never made sense because of the different design considerations. Only the SEP tried it seriously and they had to use a very unconventional drive train for the wheeled version to take a run at it. They didn't sell any either.
Additionally the tracked Stryker is much heavier than the wheeled one, has a much bigger engine, has the driver re-positioned and so on . . . it's basically a new vehicle that happens to use the double V belly plate off of the late model Stryker.
It looks like a Christie suspension and a school bus had a baby. Ugly.
ReplyDeleteI want to see it drive and see what they can arm it with before I can believe it.
Did I mention it's ugly?
it does go against the "if it looks right it is right rule" doesn't it!
DeleteUgly? This thing looks freaking sexy... Just needs a bigger gun... Honestly the ruskies always put big-ass guns on their apc's (btr-90).
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