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  • TheDevilDogGamer!!!

  • Can a LAV-25 have a mounted TOW on it?

  • @MrDeath4Life2O Well, yeah but remember that the Russians also have planes, Chinese have planes and the Best AA and SAM weapons in the world. They also have tanks and in fact, their Armored units are better organized and equally prepared to all NATO armies. Look, before he could see the fire, he is already dead, the BMP-2 has equal range and a higher rate of fire than the LAV and Bradley. Maby the BMP-1 but not the BMP-2/3.. THe BMP-3 has 8km range ATGMs .......

  • way better than the fking bradley. slow SOB that is. and non-aquatic

  • @Mrinsanepain bradleys serve a slightly different purpose than the lav-25s do. also, bradleys are indeed amphibious.

  • @kingmigget they are both apc/IFV but you need a skirt on for the bradley. and it takes 10 minutes for all the crew to set it up. its basically just an airbag a couple bullets and it will pop. i know that they have a different purpose.

  • Why does it bother Americans so much that it was build it Canada a lot of your equipment comes from foreign designs you guys just modify it for your use then change enough so you won't have to buy a licensee

  • Not sure about real counterpart but i will always pick BRDM2 or BTR90 over LAV-25 at any time in ArmA 2.

  • The M3A3 Bradley is so much better than this crap

  • @airplanef22 Totally different vehicles, this is designed to be infantry fast support the Bradleys is Heavy APC, designed for Urban Combat.

    Uneducated kid.

  • @Mattc23q Uneducated Kid? The Bradley was designed to fight on the open plains of Europe and stick close to the Abrams when the Soviets were piling through the Folda Gap. No armoured vehicle is designed to fight in an Urban enviroment, it's the worst place to bring a large vehicle, but a wheeled vehicle would have an advantage in an urban enviroment, as it would be quiter than squeaky and clanky tracks and would be less likely to be fully imobilised if it loses a wheel than a whole track.

  • @Thespeakerofmanytru8 It was originally designed for that, but since it never got used in the plains of europe the newer models were designed for urban combat as seen in the gulf war and 2003 invasion of iraq, it's got 6 firing ports to engage targets from multiple directions as seen in an urban environment, and its 30mm gun is used to take out light civilian vehicles and small buildings, you wouldnt expect a 30mm to be pinned against a t-70 or a t-80?

  • @Mattc23q Bradley can deal with a T-72 with a TOW. Not sure if I would trust the TOW against the T-80's newer reactive armour. I don't think the firing ports were added for urban combat, I think they came as standard. My Bro tells me that he would prefer the M-113 over both of them. It's easier to manouvere than the Bradley but it's got better mobility cross country and over rubble than the LAV or the Stryker. Hes in the army BTW.

  • @Thespeakerofmanytru8 Yeah, the Bradleys is just a waste of tax payer money, same with the stryker, the M113 can take a rocket just like the bradleys, its rare for 2 rockets to hit the same vehicle, But i'd take the Lav or the ASLAV over any of them, just has more style.

  • BATTLEFIELD 3

  • @karna77330 that was my first thought when i saw this video :p lol

  • @BillNickJim lol

  • @karna77330, Better REAL LIFE!!!!

  • @karna77330 wow

  • BTR is like a hammer compared to this fly.

  • @LynxSr no. most early model BTRs (manufacured around the same time as the LAVs) had .50 cal MGs and paper-thin armor.

    even modern BTRs arent much better than these, they use a similar gun, a 25mm auto cannon.

  • clearly tracked vehicles are better, but what difference does it make when you cannot afford to put all your troops in them... you can buy lots of these canadian LAVS for the price of 1 bradley... look at germany in ww2, they had by far the best armor, but when you got 2000 tigers going up against 100 000+ shermans and t-34s, it dont really matter how good your tiger tank is, your still gunna lose

  • TeamGhost it is built in a Ford Motor factory located in Canada.... YOu can thank the Americans for building it.

  • Luis Antonio Valencia 25

  • LOL "soviets".

  • who cares where its from its not like Canada doesnt buy stuff from other countries and its not like we are allies

  • WTF this is Canadian Vehicle

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  • its sold now to Saudi Arabia it will be interesting to see how they masacre unarmed civilians using LAV-25

  • @admonster11 Why is everyone on the internet so damn stuid? Do you honestly believe that the Saudi government would slaughter its own people? They want stability as much as everyother nation, they want freedom as everyother nation. Freedom is not the American system, freedom is non-oppression from outside, or internal forces! Why has the world moved from racism to religous descrimination? In the end we are all brothers. We breath, sweat, bleed, and think the same!

  • @TexasMadeChicano its because people are generally stupid..I do honestly believe that they will slaughter any people who will threaten royal or Islamic rule as they showed so eager in Bahrain.. and as a hell hole which Saudi Arabia is nothing good will come from them and arming them in modern weapons is just mental!

  • @admonster11 Well their a proud nation and of its tradition. I remember a time when America once brought down anyone who wanted equal rights.

  • @TexasMadeChicano I got your point totally! Everyone was running away from States to live in Saudi Arabia and other freedom loving countries in the middle east.

  • @TexasMadeChicano best part of their rich tradition..Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, just issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”

  • @admonster11 Don't forget about the Bradley IFV.

  • @planetary109 Eurofighter assembly line its being build as well

  • @admonster11 thats an interesting opinion, care to elaborate, or should we take your word for it, that the saudi military or any military would just go out and engage civilians, considering the cost, i'd say whatever you think is mostly propaganda

  • @vamparik its a savage country which resembles north Korea just with shits lots of money! They cant have freedom because they occupied by totalitarian religious system. half of the population women are enslaved at home cant go out without male guardian.

    I went there very interesting experience. but Its like time travel their minds are hanging in void between 6th century and modern times my only point is that we should not arm them in our hight tech western military equipment

  • @admonster11

    yes because the military uses its time and money to massacre unarmed civilians for no purpose or gain what so ever

  • @thecow777 The military's intentions don't have to deal with killing civilians, but they love making high profits which Saudi Arabia is willing to give to them for their weapons.

  • Swiss Designed the basic hull. Canada designed the entire vehicle with turret.

    Americans bought it.

  • thanks Canada :)

  • @XDemonRoxasX No prob

  • Swiss designed, Canadian modified, assembled in America. Jesus Christ.

  • american sucks

  • Yeah Hate to break it to you but the country of origin is the country that designed the vehicle. Production drones in a factory only know how to push buttons and tighten screws. Or if they are really smart, solder and weld.

  • I'm curious why they didn't mount a TOW on it to engage enemy tank (Like the BTR has).

  • @20YrBillionaire

    it was too heavy and it had to be anphibious

    excuse my spelling

  • @SaintsSpecOps I didn't realize a tow weighed that much, I guess you could just put a javelin on it (or several) for tank engagement.

  • i love military vehicles!!

  • Put an ATGM on it, then you can engage heavy armoured tanks.

  • Both the US and Canadian versions are developed from the Swiss MOWAG Piranha 8x8.

  • 25mm = stupid calibre.

  • @BringBack500s 25.4 mm = 1 inch... so it equals about .98 cal 

  • I guess General Motors originated in canada along with an untold number of sell outs....right?

  • These were produced by GM Defense in Canada with a Detroit Diesel engine. My wife (then girlfriend) saw one on the hi way down in florida and was surprised that a tank could go so fast and had tires, mind you this was back in '85. Seems like yesterday. Semper Fi

  • it gas a big fun

  • my ass you can fit 6 scouts in the back, all we could fit inside were 4 tightly packed scouts. still remember when we first got them in 1st LAI Batallion. I do love the vehicles and were an asset in desert shield/desert storm.

  • @noktturnal They did not mean American sized scouts. This country should go on a diet.

  • my ass you can fit 6 scouts in the back, all we could fit inside were 4 tightly packed scouts. still remember when we first got them in 1st Lai bn. I do love th evehicles and were an asset in desert shield/desert storm.

  • I got all the the sleep in the back of the LAV...I swear the damn crewman would forget us scouts were even back there

  • Tracked vehicles have to be chased by mechanics in soft vehicles, in todays wars thats not a good way to fight. The worst weapon on a modern battlefield is infantry thats why canada nearly gave up using main battle tanks. USA created the stryker army the stryker doesnt need to rely on soft vehicles to chase it to keep it running.

  • @NielsShoe I thought Canada was still using the German Leopard 2A4s? I do know they do use the "Mobile Gun System" variant of the Styker (105mm gun variant)

  • Lav can swim and doesnt break down as much or need as much fuel in a modern war the wheeled armoured vehicles win.

  • that guy is badass

  • The LAV has several platforms, the LAV-25 is just one. There is the LAV-AT, a tow missle mounted platform. There is a platform that has 81mm mortors fired from the back. The LAV-C2, which is the communication platform. The LAV-LOG, or logistics platform. A recovery platform with mechs. aboard. In the LAR Bn. all of these LAV's work together to make a very impressive force. Not to mention the Marine in the back of the LAV-25 who are a weapon all there own. Semper FI

  • A swiss invention!!! i have to say that cuz im swiss....xD

  • CANADIAN VEHICLE,NOT AMERICAN!!!

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  • @Tyco200 that;s just your opinion

  • @Tyco200 oh yeah... well this LAV can drive even if its missing most of its wheels or has a chunk blown out of it.... a bradley loses its tracks and its done... loses its drivetrain and its done... this can take way more of a beating and continue to operate... and it can be repaired on the fly much easyer... not 2 mention you can buy 3 of them for less then the price of 1 m3a3... im not sayin a LAV3 or 25 will win in a 1 on 1 fight with a m3a3... im jus sayin that they have there advantages 2

  • @101andrewj Well, I can agree with that. But having a chunk blown out of the vehicle? I doubt it could take that much punishment. However, it is true that wheels are better than tracks.

  • @Tyco200 look up... lav 3 mobility test.. it explains it all

  • @Tyco200 You're right. There might have been minimal improvements to this vehicle, but look up Gustafsen Lake. It was a conflict between RCMP and First Nations going back about 15 yrs., and a LAV was disabled by a single rifle bullet (Not kidding. Look it up, if the article hasn't been censored). I assume the drivetrain or a CV joint was damaged. Those wheels are fairly exposed. And we all know now what a POS the Strykers proved to be in Iraq.

  • @TeamGhostX uummm duuhhhhh!!!!!...trying to sound smart when the description states its built by GDLS Canada used by the USMC....idiot

  • @TeamGhostX

    Well it's based on the Mowag Piranha family witch was made by the swiss, as is the LAV III. They all look alike on the outside but not on the inside^^

  • @TeamGhostX The American military started using them before the Canadian Forces did. They have always been made in Canada though.

  • @TeamGhostX American vehicle Made by an AMERICAN company assembled in canada.

  • @robschroeder365247 So they cut armor for the LAV-25 in Canada for what reason ?? Its not American made..

  • @robschroeder365247 Canadian Vehicle Made by a Canadian, Assembeled in Idaho.

  • @Tehpolev Canadian vehicle made by a Canadian assembleled in london ont

  • @BaconTV123 I Dont care about the american version, The Can-Australian version (ASLAV) Designed in Canada, Made by a Australian and Canadian, Assembled in Sydney, Australia.

  • @Tehpolev i dont care about the lav-25 anyway

  • @Tehpolev Its Built in canada By an American Company. Its American get over it.

  • @robschroeder365247 in the video a swiss design assembled in canada so how is it american???

  • @Fiend2011 General Motors is the company that owns the factories. It is also an American company meaning their products are made by an American company. Therefore it is an American Product. Just Like the AK-47 is made everywhere its still a Russian Gun. As for Sweeden they can claim the LAV-25 as much as Lockheed Martin can claim the Pak-50.

  • @robschroeder365247 Hey cockhead. I know you want to say everything is American,but the LAV series was made BY CANADIANS,and it was a CANADIAN design The funding was American.

  • @robschroeder365247 1 model american, 2 models canadian, it's mostly a canadian vehicle

  • @robschroeder365247 canadian company canadian made american bought.... nice try

  • @robschroeder365247 Designed by Canadians, built by Canadians, used by Canadians, Americans and some others... Pretty much nothing american in it.

  • @robschroeder365247 That's not true...it's is invented by the Candian the design was given to GM(American) then parts are built and assembled in Canada...oh and Canada already has a better version called LAV-III

  • @robschroeder365247

    Why is it built in Canada?

  • @JustAnotherYtuber cheaper exported labor? gives Canada something to brag about? tested on curling rinks?

  • @robschroeder365247 Swiss design, which actually reinforces the point that it's American, it's got multiple heritages but is American at heart.

  • @robschroeder365247 Canadian vehicle designed and produced in Canada. Same as the stryker. I cant figure out why you guys are so xenophobic, its not like anyone said they were made by china.

  • @robschroeder365247 You couldn't be more wrong it's made by GM Canada; the Canadian branch of a US company.

  • American Soldiers, American Accent, The Stryker Is The American Version, Its A Modified LAV II

  • @TeamGhostX Swiss, actually.

  • @SAsgarters The Swiss only helped designing a particular part to this vehicle,not the entire thing.

  • @25Milimeter MOWAG designed the Piranha, which the LAV and the Stryker are based on. No matter how much of the vehicle is manufactured or modified elsewhere, it will always be a Swiss vehicle.

  • @TeamGhostX Canada. lol

  • who cares the vehicles arent all the great anyway

  • "Cant penetrate tank Armour" Except all the new ones with tow missiles on them...

  • looks just like my Stryker

  • except smaller and slower. Its just a Coyote... I would much rather be in a LAV then that vehicles... but hey im a Bison driver (Variant of the Coyote)

    ~Thanato

  • this seems like it has a limited use considering it cant engage tanks, is used mainly for engaging troop transports, and we already have the bradley for transporting troops.

  • @allthegundams in the canadian millitary, we basically use these instead of a humvee, most of the american versions only have a 50 cal also.

  • but Rosomak is better ^^

  • Yeah, good finnish technology ;). Have you ever thought about it? Lots of good military hardware come from nordic countries. Norwegian AA missiles, Swedish Saab airplanes, bazookas and Bofors' countless large caliber guns, Finnish Patria vehicles, like that Rosomak of yours, and Sako's sniper rifles that are used by 29 countries law enforcement and/or militaries.

  • bradley rules but this thing is awsome

  • Eh, I'd rather have a Brad.

  • how many countries operate the stryker??

  • the stryker was developed in mah hometown

  • Stryker is based on LAV, that was made in Canada. LAV was based on Piranha that was made in Switzerland. So, I don't know about that :(

  • maybe it was a different one it was a tank on future weapons tested in YPG

  • Yeah, but it Stryker was based on european design, that comes from Switzerland. Mowag Piranha, put it on youtube and you might find and see it. Seeing them leaves no room for doubt.

  • "Yeah, but it Stryker was...". It? Wtf, well obviously you got my point.

  • NLOS-C

  • @Js00312

    At the moment just the US Army, but the Stryker based on the Mowag Piranha 3, wich is used in different country's.

  • thanx!

  • I work at GD in London, Ontario, Only the U.S have the stryker, but other countries have different models (Australia, New Zealand, Canada.

  • Mowag Piranha is the same type of vehicle, just 100 times better.

  • what is this ?

  • BTR80A forever!

  • don't you guys get scared if a muslim hides with a missle launcher that will prob blow you away.

    or will it???

  • nah RPG wont do shit to these things

    the ones in country are up armored.

    Along highway 1 during the invasion of Iraq, these things, equipped with night vision sights mowed down alot of RPG gunner way before they could get in range.

  • idiot. Huge giant idiot

  • eh?

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  • lav 25 говно ебучее

  • not a fuckin APC.....Recon!

  • The Coyote Recce vehicle is one of the best Armoured Recce Vehicles around... the Coyote is the only reason the US has the LAV-25 because they were impressed with the vehicle when the Canadians used it. Same thing with the Stryker.

    ~Thanato

  • Thank you. Could an additional removable mine protection be mounted at the front of the vehicle? I am considering this for patrols through cities like Kaboul. Would you, if realizable, consider it as an advantage, or does the existing protection give full satisfaction?

  • yeah canada... we build some kickass vehicles

  • Part*

  • Is the LAV-25 mine resistant?

  • Kind of,its the shockwave that kills not the explosion itself.But yea the coyote mine resitant.

  • This is what your life has come down to.. Arguing on youtube with people you never met... Loser.

  • same crap as bmp 3, badly armored, not right used

  • Looks very fuckable girl for Russian BTR 90 and BMP 3. Americans, please come up with something that not so funny. Russian weapons ROKS, US weapons SUCKS:

  • Even russian dont like BMP-3. Whats wrong with this weapon system? USA weapons suck? .... i disagree. BTR-80 is so unsafe that crew prefers to ride in the roof instead inside it.

  • In the war nothing is safe, but have to be usefull.

    BMP 3 is light weight tank, wich can also sweem and even have WC inside. It has also very good weapons. It can carrye 10 solders and 1000kg weapons. It looks very usefull for me in the war.

  • So is that why russia lost in afghanistan? because the russians have such great equipment that they lost in afghanistan! but... if you say US equipment sucks then why are we winning?

  • In wich war you USA "winning"? In Korea, In Vietnam or in Iryq and Afganistan? You should check in Wikipedia Russian thechnology losies in Afgan war and compare with US loses in Vietnam or in Korea. Check in Iraq and in Afganistan too, and that's without Russian help, if Russia would have helped Iraq and Afganistan now with weapons USA wouldn't even been there so long. Since WW2 USA lost every war where they faced Russian weapons. Korea MIG 15. VIETNAM AK 47 and MIG 21. That's fact

  • maybe you should get YOUR facts right. We won korea and we won the military battles in vietnam. do something useful and read up on the wars because your obviously dont know shit.

  • You kill lots of Vietnamis woman and children, but they kill 50000 US military for it, that's not winning, that's means you got fucked in Vietnam and in Korea.

  • we may have lost 50,000 troops but the NVA lost 520,000. not only did we win but we owned the skies which the NVA had RUSSIAN pilots flyin for them. the russians couldnt do shit and still cant. they dont have enough money for a war because they are poor.

  • Bla, bla, bla, I'm not arguing wich brainwashed IDIOTS!

  • you just know im right and want to act immature about it.

  • How you can be right, are you fucked up in your head? USA lost war militarally with Vietnam and with Korea. that's fact. Just becouse of USA have great propaganda, brainwashing sistem wich can only shows US advantige, dosn't changes the fact that Americans got fucked in Vietnam and in Korea with Russian weapons. It was humilating fuck, but you think you are heros anyway don't you? "freedome loving people" in my ass USA is evel country in this planet.

  • nah dude ur country got the shit kicked out of it in vietnam,,,u didnt win

  • "Korea MIG 15."

    North-Korea attacked to South and tried to conquer it... did they do it? no. How can you declare that a victory?

  • And you think Americans won in Korea? Americans never won anything, just destroy and kill woman and children. Militarally USA suckes, especially when it's faced Russian weapons. FACT!!! You can argue teoretically, but fact it's fact, Russian weapons always on winning side.

  • what u mean ur winning against terrorism?? cuz ur not...and compare the casualties...america has lost 4000 troops, australia has lost 11..enuf said.

  • yeah Australia lost 11 because they aren't doing shit in Afghanistan... who's doing the most? US and UK. how much troops do you even have in Afghanistan? like 300?? and we didn't lose Vietnam, just look at the battles.. khe sahn, hue, etc. you say you like American history but you don't know shit.

  • Hey I know Americans are doing there and the Brits too but the Canadians as well.

  • nah dont worry i dont like american history...and well u went to iraq cuz of weapons of mass destruction but as soon as korea drops a shit load of nukes america dusnt see that....PUSSIES...PUSSIES, george bush was doin fukn nothin over there, and muthafuka 11 of our troops die cuz there sas not just grunts, so they got skillz unlike ur army...wake up

  • lol do realize how retarded you sound? you obviously dont know anything about the American military operations...

    Americans are doing all the real fighting dumb asss!! and the Brits are doing their part, are you fucking retarded??....You dont even know your countries role in the war! your not even worth this comment, thanks for wasting my time cocksucker, go fuck a kangaroo

  • u cant answer to any shit i say, thats funny...americas pretty good at dying too, but i guess it wud b unamerican to not put ur army in someone elses country...np wastin ur time lol...not like u got anythin else else to while ur child porn downloads..bye bye bitch

  • You wake up... are you really that stupid?

  • not as stupid as u my small retard frend...

  • No I'm sorry your mistaken, Your retarded, and I'm not your friend

  • lol nice come back retard, fuck off dickhead...better?

  • lol fuck off cockersuck

  • fukn dead shit...y r u even talkin to me. go away ya peasent

  • More like the crapAV. One RPG grenade and the Bradley is knocked out. The BTR-90 is far better in combat and is far more reliable.

  • on an LAV, an RPG hit will be less likely because of the sloped armor. more likely than not the round will ricochet and fly off elsewhere. also mind you the LAV is constantly improving in terms of reliability, sighting systems and survivability. yes the main gun on the LAV remains the same (albiet with an improved internals and barrell), but the sighting system is FAR improved from when it was first introduced

  • doesn;t the lav have 2 soldiers in the back of the turret?

  • 3rd LAR B co

  • all Canada baby, the took swiss designs and put em on the board and improved them gott love the LAV

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  • it is a cool post. its amazing how the LAV advanced throughout the years. now its more powerful, much improved sighting system, improved turret and much easier to maintain and repair

  • screened tiger brigade's left flank during the push into kuwait really miss blowing shit up 2nd LAI

  • Bush master HAAAAAAAAA!

  • 3rd LAR D Co