Comments on: Armor Forecasted Expenditures

By: tsh

tsh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:23:52 +0000

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By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:08:00 +0000

Also,concerning armor in Afghanistan,the U.S. Army has Bv206 assets in Alaska that I’m sure could be transferred to Afghanistan for use.Stryker vehicles would also be an asset in Afghanistan.I’m not exactly sure why(or I forgot)the rationale for the Canadians having tanks in Afghanistan,but tank guns could be used like a big “shotgun” to fire “pellets or other projectiles” into massed Taliban formations if they attacked our forces.The Stryker MGS could also do the same thing.

By: The Cenobyte

The Cenobyte — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:50:05 +0000

I thought that the British where really have issues finding anything to do with their tanks in the ‘stan. I understand the want for armor in the field, but I am not sure tanks are going to help you out there where hearts and minds really are more important than bullets. I know there is still a fight there, but the mountains are not really made for 80 ton monsters of war.
As to Samolia, we had tanks, LAVs and AAVs in country at the time of black hawk down, but they where with the Marines not with task force ranger.

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:55:31 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this a lot.How come we haven’t committed any of our armor or Stryker vehicles to Afghanistan? Canada has committed both Leopard I & Leopard II tanks along with their version of Stryker Vehicles(Piranha GEN III LAV).They even committed Bv206 light armored vehicles.Other European nations have committed armored vehicles(the Germans have their Wiesels in country),but we only have committed armored…up-armored HMMWVs.Is that enough?