The Flyer 21 was a contender in the Internally Carried Vehicle contest and was put forward by Marvin Group.
I won't go over the allegations of gross misconduct that was revealed by investigative reporters, but a serious look back tells us that the Marine Corps sometimes buys the wrong vehicle for the wrong reasons and saddles Marines with inferior products at exorbitant prices.
Forgive me, I can't help it. Compare what we could have had above with what we got below...
I have only heard rumors but what I heard was that the growler was the only vehicle that had a solid roll cage and the necessary ground clearance with the air bag suspension.
ReplyDeletePersonally I would have gone with the flip up and bolt on roll cage but the requirement was the vehicle had to be combat ready within 90 seconds of exiting the MV-22. The other concern was the Marines would not put up the roll cage.
i have a hard time believing that rumor. developing a cage that can be raised in 90 seconds can't be hard. additionally American Growler put forward the most technologically inferior in the competition with the weakest engineering team. no way they did what the others couldn't. i'll dig up the videos but a news team has me convinced that fraud was involved with the selection of this vehicle. the retired colonel that owned the company at the time sold me on how inside he was by his reaction to being questioned about why his vehicle won.
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