US Army Stryker

[Dan Thompson]

I was ready some article on the internet and the armor was made to stop nothing larger than a 14.5 mm.

Does anyone know what it would take to stop a RPG? There seems to be quite a lot of these out there.

I saw a picture awhile back of a Bradley that took a shot from an RPG and it didn't do very well.

 

[n20junkie]

even though this is kinda off topic, being in the army and all that cool stuff, i can tell you that an rpg is a cheap yet very effective weapon, designed to take out everything but the biggest machines, and the only armor that is 100 percent effective is the depleted urainium armor with a outer layer of reactive armor on the m1-A1-2 is about all that stops it, that is all i will say for concerns of saying too much on a public domain, hope that helps
grant

 

[87gn-newbee]

I to am in the Army and getting ready to go a Stryker BN up in Alaska. I hope to never find out how thin the armor really is

Dan

 

[Dan Thompson]

I understand that the M113 Gavin maybe just as good, but it does not carry the 105mm gun as some Strykers do.

There is something like, I think it was, 13,000 Gavins in inventory, maybe 1,300, I'll have to go back and check.

 

[Pronto]

Just goes to show that some of the most efffective weapons are cheap and simple rather than hi-tech and a million dollars. The cheap and simple Sherman was very effective in WWII but took tremendous # of them to do it.

 

[UNGN]

Off topic, but did you see pictures of the M1A1 that got blown up by an antitank mine late last month. Unbelievable. It looked like it flipped over a couple times (mud on top) and the turret came clean off.

Two were killed, but incredibly the other two survived.

I think the key to crew survival is to absorb the hit and not turn the insides of the vehicle into molten shrapnel. If the vehicle gets taken out, but the crew survives, its done its job.

 

[UNGN]

Here's two threads on two recent M1A1 losses in Iraq:

Mystery Projectile

No RPG Did this