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Stryker Is Too Big For Army Planes

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Posted 14 August 2004 - 10:51 PM

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2735321
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WASHINGTON - The Army's new medium-weight armored vehicle weighs so much that it curtails the range of C-130 military cargo aircraft that carry it and under certain conditions makes it impossible for the planes to take off, a new report for Congress found.


Couldn't they have found this out before manufacturing them? Thrown a few sacks of sand of the same weight in a C-130 to see what would happen?

Report says Stryker is too big for Army planes
Armored vehicle called difficult to move around
Washington Post

WASHINGTON - The Army's new medium-weight armored vehicle weighs so much that it curtails the range of C-130 military cargo aircraft that carry it and under certain conditions makes it impossible for the planes to take off, a new report for Congress found.


"The Stryker's average weight of 38,000 pounds — along with other factors such as added equipment and less-than-ideal flight conditions — significantly limits the C-130's flight range and reduces the size force that could be deployed," the Government Accountability Office's report said.

The report said a C-130 with an average-weight Stryker wouldn't be able to take off from higher elevations in Afghanistan during daylight hours in the summer. The findings support the claims of critics that the eight-wheeled Stryker — in use in Iraq — won't be able to roll into a C-130, be flown 1,000 miles and leave the plane immediately able to engage in combat.





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