Getting Blown up in a stryker(part 2)

looking at the damage

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• military
• stryker
• infantry
• ied
• iraq

[deucedfour]

yf681, so if you can take out a strykers tires with broken glass, why did one stryker in my unit drive over 10 miles back to the fob with 8 blown out tires. Oh what's that? It might be that mound of rubber over the wheel called RUN FLAT YOU FUCKING MORON. My Bn took 10+ direct hits by suicide car bombers, and only two people have ever died from them. Hell we had to rescue an M1 when they knocked his track out. Go spew your hot air somewhere else you lying sack of shit.

[ssgduke56]

Isn't amazingly that we get REMFs , FOBBITs, Wanna Be(s) and FAKERs who think they know better then those who have been in the Stryker vehicle!!! Unless you are in the Army, especially a Infantryman that shoots, drives, commands the vehicle then keep to your opinions to yourselves. Those that have been in the Stryker Vehicle I salute you and respect your opinion!

SSG Duke (Retire, U.S. Army Infantry)

[alphawhiskey8]

Thank god for Strykers. As I was in the squad leader's hatch, a svbied detonated 10 m in front of us and I'm here today with only a tbi. Im so thankful that I was able to serve as a line medic and roll with the infantry each and every day. Plus the A/C was also a nice touch :-)

[Hairysteed]

@ansymo67 How much do Stryker tires cost?

[Hairysteed]

@ansymo67 And you suppose changing a tire on a Stryker is just as easy as changing a tire on your car? Do you think that tanks have those extra track segments on them just for extra protection?

[52111centrumcz]

@daveme7 I am railing against the product shills who keep pushing the stryker as the best of the best and unexceeded quality vehicle when in fact it is at best a mediocre vehicle with substandard off-road performance and thin armor - basically an american version of the BTR-80.

I do not hate on the users of the vehicles, there is no need and it is not their fault that the equipment that they were given is at best normal, at worst sub-standard.

[52111centrumcz]

@ssgduke56

No offense, but you don't need to be a marathon runner to understand who won a race. In the arms race, a styker is at best in the middle of the pack. There are many superior vehicles to it with a simmilar price that could be built in the US pending a license. such as the AMV patria (superior armor) or others, which have better mobility, better fuel economy and superior gun optics. And since most stryker crews HAVE NO COMPARISON since they only drive strykers, they can't say either.

[daveme7]

@52111centrumcz Do not know enough as I had been in an FMTV supply vehicle in 2004 in Tal-Afar. Point is-most vehicles regardless of how much armor on the topside will always have a weakness somewhere along the line. People die and get wounded in combat. Many in stryker units understand this(me was in 2-14 Cav out of Lewis). For the record-I was a supply sgt and should be dead, I am not, and thank the lord fopr keeping me alive.

[deucedfour]

I see a lot of dumbass comments about what would happen to this vehicle compared to that vehicle if this or that hits it. Hey numbnuts, shut up. EFP's go through armor on an M1. People will find ways to destroy shit. But in our case, we are smarter than you, and realize the limitations of our vehicles and don't push the envelope too far past the boundaries. It's called being SMART. Which some of you obviously aren't. Realize your limitations, your advantages, and go from there.

[SaintsSpecOps]

i it was a m113 everyone would be dead

[Justowner]

@astupiddvdcase Hey bro, I heard you like IEDs, so we put IEDs in yo IEDs so you can IED while you IED.

[52111centrumcz]

@joemarket700

Look at a BTR-4. Its a ukrainian built vehicle (I am not ukrainian just so u know) and it weighs about 25 tons, can withstand .50 cal MG fire and with ERA even an RPG. A KTO Rosomak - which is a AMV Patria vehicle built to Polish specs - withstood a direct RPG hit to the frontal mexas armor and was not penetrated. You just have to know how to build quality vehicles, not be a corporate welfare freeloading money black hole like GDLS.