What vehicle is this ?
http://media.militaryphotos.net/photos/2nd_Infantry_Division-Stryker_Platoon/aad
It looks incredible
The vehicle behind them is the Stryker. It is the next generation LAV, being fielded by the US Army. More info here: http://www.army.mil/features/stryker/default.htm
More specifically, the Stryker AT. (TOW missiles)
To confuse the issue, they’re also being called MGSs since they are filing the slot in the organisation that the MGS is supposed to fill when they finally work the kinks out.
NTM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/iav.htm
They’re the next generation of APC/ICV’s, its quite spacious and roomy inside.
The cage looking thing around the Stryker vehicle is to help protec it from RPG rounds.
Much better than chicken wire, like on the M113 in Veitnam.
It wasn’t chicken wire on the vehicles in Vietnam, it was chain link fencing. The bar armor is much more effective though.
Probably better than the the bed springs the Soviets used on their tanks in Berlin as well.[:)]
Then you better dicuss that with the men in the book “Modern American Armor”, theres a pic of an M13A1 ACAV with chicken eire armor the copula and rear-roof hatch.
That was chicken wire, but it was used to keep grenades from being dropped/thrown into the vehicle hatches, not to stop RPGs. Chain link fencing was erected on/around vehicles for an RPG screen.
Basiclly the same thing, ones just rocket propelled and the others hand thrown.
No, they are totally different. Only similarity is having “grenade” in the name.
A hand grenade is just a small, hand-held bomb, basically an adavanced stick of dynomite.
An RPG is an anti tank weapon that works on the principle of a shaped charge projectile. When an RPG detonates, it fucuses all its energy on about a 1/2" diameter circle. This energy then melts a hole in the vehicle’s armor like a blow torch and then sends the molten metal all over the inside of the hull. Not a true grenade at all. The chain link fencing and bar armor cause the RPG to detonate farther out from the hull so that the effects of the molten jet from the shaped charge is weakened to the point of innefective before it hits the hull and is then unable to penetrate.
Actually the primary purpose of the bar armor/fencing was to pinch the cap so the weapon didnt actuate, at least in theory. Secondary protection was distance between weapons effect and armored hull.
I know how a HEAT round works, but the first RPG’s weren’t HEAT, just HE. Its basiclly an advanced rifle gernade.
A grenade uses gunpowder or did at one time, and a grenade isn’t an advance stick of dynomite. Dynomite uses nitro and other highly explosive materials to explode. A grenade causes shrapnel and concussion, unless its a Gammon.
Point is that the chicken wire wasn’t for RPGs.
Exact chemical compaound of the grenade and RPG has nothing to do with it. The effect of a grenade and dynomite are the same, they both go boom, the shrapnel and how it does it is the advanced part. Vietnam era RPG and a Vietnam era grenade were not the same.
The HE RPG goes bo too. But the basic job of both id too kill or destroy. Besides its not a matter of what the weapon was made for but how the enemy uses that weapon.
Agreed.
Chicken wire still wasn’t for RPGs though.
Well we wheren’t there so we don’t know, maybe thats all they had.
Lets agree to disagree.
Definitely agree to disagree. Chicken wire would not have been very effective though. It is pretty weak stuff.
I must agree with you there, but then again you don’t need anything really strong to keep chickens in.