AUSA 2019: Stryker A1 IM-SHORAD and MCWS variants 

Ken Elsey no. Three can fit in a C17. One of the reasons why not all Strykers will be upgraded

I understand that the older version with the small remote weapon station will fit in an aircraft. What I question it whether the a1 with the heavier belly armor and the 30mm bushmaster turret (ie: taller) will still fit through a drop down ramp opening on a transport aircraft. If it doesn't, then they have defeated one of this vehicle's reasons for being.

Ken Elsey no it won’t. The Original CROWS had to be partially unbolted and folded down to fit on a C130. Something that takes only like 10 minutes or so but still must be done. The 30 mm cannon would be too tall to fit on a C130 but should be good to fit on a C17 and easily fit on a C5

Ken Elsey that was really a hold over idea from the late 90s and early 2000s. It was never going to be a practical concept in the real world where you have heavily armed insurgent movements and great power conflicts on the horizon

Johnq365 Quebec for the most part I agree. But In a counter insurgency environment nothing beats a Stryker. The double V hull takes IEDs like a champ. The engine is super quiet along with wheels instead of tracks. You could sneak right up to an insurgents house and be in his bedroom before he was even out of the covers. To fight insurgents you really don’t need to have anything bigger than a .50 cal or a MK-19. Anything much bigger and you worry about way too much civilian casualties. Even saying all that Stryker is staying with the times and new threats. The Russians have always been ahead of the curve with doctrine as was shown with its BTR series but they have never had the money, technology, or industrial base to make a good execution on the idea. Great ideas, bad follow through.

it's an actual horn! 🦆

That ''goofy-looking horn''? ...Are you kidding me? That horn is non other than the Sopwith/Wilkinson 1915 MkIIa7.....manually pumped air raid warning system..... still a very effective piece of kit.

@@rpm1796 previously I was unaware of the existence of this classified device!

It is for battlefield cyclists

Richard Robinson standard armor package will take 14.5 mm rounds with its usual bolt on armor. Without the bolt on armor (which does not exist from all the Stryker units I’ve served with or know of) blocks 7.62

So no hope with a 30mm round? And what about ATGMs? And if not, why so heavy?

What do people think would happen if it got a direct hit with an 80mm mortar round?

The armor on Strykers are better than both the BTR series and even the newer boomerang. An infantry platoon will consist of four Strykers: two with the 30mm cannon and a coax M240 machinegun. Two with a .50cal CROWS with a Javelin ATGM. It is not intended to go toe to toe with modern heavy mech units. It’s designed to get the infantry where they are needed as fast as possible and with enough firepower to hold what they have. Other Stryker units will not be upgraded to be used in a counterinsurgency environment. Just have double V hull to defend against IEDs

A P the Russians do not have the money to phase out the BTRs. They made all these cool high tech vehicles but do not have enough money to replace the older ones so they are only making one high end unit. All the other units will just have upgraded Cold War era stuff. So the 72B3, T80BVM,T90AM, BTR82A ect. That will be the bulk of the Russian military for a long time

Amp is both AC and DC being a measurement of current, the question is what is the Wattage?

@@robertdonnell8114 Is the load inductive resistive or capacitance driven. Inductive loads can sink larger currents upon close of the circuit. AC can be run through step up transformer to achieve larger voltage supplies. Devices such a computers generally off of 5VDC. Some time ÷- 15 or +- 12. So the idea the it could be 900 amps tells little. But I am sure that is intended.

the US has a pretty big stockpile of 30mm equipment for their MCWS programme. the guns are provided by the government for this competition.

crappy chassis won't let put anything significant.

@LordEd21 21 doubt it will fit on Stryker.

@LordEd21 21 NGCV will be a tracked unit, and Stryker is wheeled as it was intended for a different purpose.

There moving towards 40mm on IFVs. Stryker is an APC. There putting 30mm cannons on them so Strykers can protect themselves against Russian BTRs that have 30mm cannons.

Jon _ you do realize a lot of the US Army uses a lot of foreign equipment, right? Though all US military equipment must be made in the US. Side arm: M9 - Italian Squad Automatica Weapon M249 SAW- Belgian Medium Machinegun M240 -also Belgian Light anti- armor weapon AT4 - Swedish made Just a few examples off the top of my head

@@peterprovenzano9039 I know

MOWAG Piranha from Switzerland.

@@jonny2954 SHHHHHHHHH Don't tell em

@@peterprovenzano9039 Also the M1 Abram's main gun is a German 120mm, 84mm Charles Gustav recoiless gun, USMC LAV-25 and US Army Strkyer.

No modern Tank is hurt by a 30mm. at least not frontal armor. APCs/IFVs are a different story.

As one of those *mechanized infantry* grunts who are purportedly going to be "cut down by PKM and RPG's" I doubt that very much. Please feel free to stand and fight at range and you'll have my solemn promise nothing will be rained on your head.

@@vemundr9263 With a skilled driver. vehicle commander, and or squad leader working as a team yes easily. Without a good team, it can just as easily get stuck. CTIS (central tire inflation system) and HMS (height management system) help when it comes to the muddy stuff but only a good team can keep the vehicle out of trouble. My platoons Stryker's were frequently called up to recover others not because our vehicles were superior but because we had better Driver - VC - SL teams. Those were older Strykers without these new engine upgrades. Our biggest problems off-road came when operating at night in swampy terrain. Even then we were recovering other vehicles and scouting objectives dismounted and mounted without too much issue.

Vémundr it would never have been accepted if it could not negotiate off road terrain. It’s also a trade off. Tracked vehicles require more maintenance in general but off great off road utility and vice versa

Vémundr I’ve have done multiple rotations with the Stryker unit I served with in the desert of NTC, been to Thailand and Korea as well as Eastern Washington state more times then I can count. I’ve had no major issues getting stuck if your driver and TC know how to do their jobs. Though we have broken an axle or two at NTC before. Those 10 foot deep wadis are no joke

@@peterprovenzano9039 I had a Hohenfels rotation during which I got to see what happens when you hit one of those big wadis even at a low speed. The driver was lucky to only get a broken arm and fractured collarbone. Both the SL and the VC were fired that night. No joke indeed.