[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Mobile Gun System On The Move (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/19/2012 9:08:19 PM EDT
That thing looks pretty bad ass. Is that a .50 Coax? 
What's that thing that looks like multiple fans on the side up towards the front? |
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What's that thing that looks like multiple fans on the side up towards the front? According to wikipedia, the vehicle was designed without air conditioning, but that crewmembers sometimes use cooling vests which circulate water cooled on the outside of the vehicle, maybe it's the heat exchanger for that. |
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http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/Stryker-Mobile-Gun-System-10-2012.jpg That thing looks pretty bad ass. Is that a .50 Coax?
What's that thing that looks like multiple fans on the side up towards the front? New portable hurricane generator |
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What's that thing that looks like multiple fans on the side up towards the front? According to wikipedia, the vehicle was designed without air conditioning, but that crewmembers sometimes use cooling vests which circulate water cooled on the outside of the vehicle, maybe it's the heat exchanger for that. They're doing Stryker transition training for 3rd CR now at hood. I don't think I've seen one of those things on any of the MGS's I've seen tooling around. I was thinking maybe some kind of smoke discharger, but you may be right. |
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http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/Stryker-Mobile-Gun-System-10-2012.jpg That thing looks pretty bad ass. Is that a .50 Coax?
What's that thing that looks like multiple fans on the side up towards the front? New portable hurricane generator ...by Halliburton! |
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Wouldn't the part with the fans get blown off the first time someone hits it with a shotgun or .22? that's why they're coming out with a Hardened Multiple Fans On The Side version, or HMFOTS. It's "Hardened Air Recirculation Duct Oxygen Nexus." |
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Quoted: BF3 now has the M1128 which looks just like this. I take it you don't have the Armored Kill pack. Quoted: Quoted: They clearly got this idea from BF3.  BF3 had a vehicle with an outstanding combat record, the LAV-25. NOPE!  Honestly, I loved BF3, bought the first expansions, but just can't get behind spending more money on EA. |
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BF3 now has the M1128 which looks just like this. I take it you don't have the Armored Kill pack. Quoted:
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They clearly got this idea from BF3. BF3 had a vehicle with an outstanding combat record, the LAV-25. The Stryker MGS has been on the drawing boards for at leasta dozen years, IIRC, long before BF3. |
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Quoted: Too heavy man. I crewed the '60 series (RISE) and NETTED to the M1.Makes me wonder why we ever took the M60A3 out of service I pretty much dig 105mm (M68/L-7) gun systems that can be mounted on "light" platforms. Unfortunately, the vehicles that they seem to want to mount them on don't look (To me at least) like they can take a hit. I saw a lot of blown-up rigs in AFG that were taken out by a few bucks worth of HME. |
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They clearly got this idea from BF3. BF3 had a vehicle with an outstanding combat record, the LAV-25. The Stryker MGS has been on the drawing boards for at leasta dozen years, IIRC, long before BF3. |
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Will it tip over if it fires broadside? It will not. I was deployed as a gunner on the MGS from 2006-2008 with 2nd ID in Iraq. Fired untold HEAT, HEP and cannister rounds(heaviest felt recoil IMHO) over the 3 and 9 oclock and never felt like the truck was going to tip over. I thought it was a lot of fun because the truck would rock so much. MGS is meh |
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Will it tip over if it fires broadside? Not anymore it won't! They fixed that minor error. Videos of it firing before the fix? It was an early concern in testing, if the vehicle would remain stable if firing from the 3 or 9 o'clock while on a slight grade. I haven't seen any video of it actually happening. I doubt it ever actually occurred where a vehicle physically rolled, because they probably started moving incrementally towards the sides while on a grade and stopped testing when it became apparent that it might happen. I do know they worked to fix it somehow, and that it's not supposed to be a problem anymore. |
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So this turd is supposed to serve the same basic function that the M48A3 Patton did in the RVN? 
It's a truck that provides support fire for light infantry in a somewhat permissible COIN-type Low Intensity environment, not in an MCO. It's not a tank, and shouldn't be used as a tank, because it'll get deaded. Of course, it'll probably get shoved into those roles when it comes down to needing it, because that's what happens. Which will suck. |
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Quoted: Yes!Quoted: I wish some one would mount a giant hydraulic boom arm with a CROWS on top for peeking in upper stories and over walls on something like that. oh, a "Portable Extending Near-Indirect Surveillance" add on? But with Special Engagement Mode, Automatic Neutralization. |
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I wish some one would mount a giant hydraulic boom arm with a CROWS on top for peeking in upper stories and over walls on something like that. oh, a "Portable Extending Near-Indirect Surveillance" add on? But with Special Engagement Mode, Automatic Neutralization. sounds good, but I hear those are easily defeated by employing Close Objective Nullifying Defensive Ordinance Module Systems |