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🇺🇸 Stryker
Land · General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada (GDLS-C), London, Ontario · 2002
America's 8x8 wheeled, air-deployable armored fighting vehicle family; descended from the Swiss Piranha / Canadian LAV III, it carries an infantry squad and adapts modularly to dozens of roles.
Specifications
- Type: 8x8 wheeled armored fighting vehicle (ICV/MGS/Dragoon family)
- Maker / origin: General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada — US Army; LAV III / Mowag Piranha lineage
- Weight: ICV ~16.5 t; M1128 MGS ~18.8 t
- Propulsion: Caterpillar C7 diesel, 350 hp; selectable 8x4 ↔ full 8x8 drive
- Speed / range: Max ~97 km/h (100 km/h ungoverned); operational range ~500 km
- Crew / capacity: 2 crew + 9-soldier infantry squad
- Weapon (ICV): Protector RWS: 12.7 mm M2 / 40 mm Mk 19 / 7.62 mm M240; 4× M6 smoke
- Weapon (modern variant): M1296 Dragoon / M1304 ICVVA1: 30 mm XM813 Bushmaster autocannon (remote turret)
- Service: 2002 — still active (US and allied armies)
Beats: Patria AMV (Finlandiya) — Stryker'ın çok daha geniş varyant ekosistemi ve ABD lojistik tabanı stratejik ölçek üstünlüğü sağlar, BTR-82A (Rusya) — A1 DVH V-gövdesi ve gelişmiş RWS ile mayın/IED koruması ve atış doğruluğunda belirgin üstün, LAV 6.0 (Kanada) — aynı Piranha soyundan olsa da Stryker'ın M-SHORAD/Leonidas gibi özel görev varyant derinliği daha fazla
Loses to: Boxer (Almanya/Hollanda) — modüler görev-modülü mimarisi ve zırh seviyesi Stryker'ın sabit gövdesini geçer, CV90 (İsveç) — paletli IFV olarak arazi geçişi, zırh ve 30-35 mm taret ateş gücünde daha ağır basar, VBCI (Fransa) — daha ağır zırh ve 25-40 mm taretli ana silahla doğrudan ateş gücünde üstün
The Stryker is not an IFV but a flexible 8x8 carrier family; its base ICV is light on firepower versus peers like the Boxer/CV90/VBCI, but rapid strategic deployment (C-130 airlift), low operating cost and unmatched variant diversity set it apart in its class. The M1128 MGS (105 mm) was retired in 2022 due to design flaws; the firepower gap is now closed with the 30 mm XM813-turret ICVVA1/Dragoon.
Related systems
Related systems (Land): SİPER, HİSAR-O+, HİSAR-A+, SUNGUR, KORKUT, Tayfun, GÜRZ, S-400 Triumf, Patriot (PAC-3), Bora
