Check this out from Defense News.
Donald Kotchman, vice president for Heavy Brigade Combat Team at GD Land Systems, said the company has developed a tracked version of the Stryker that builds upon the company’s decades of work producing the Abrams tank, as well as the more recent double-V-hulled Stryker. While the tracked version is not aimed specifically at the AMPV program, Kotchman said that “depending on how the requirements flow for the AMPV, then it would be finalized to be in that competition.”Go to DN to read the entire article but that's crazy! I can't even begin to imagine what they've worked up but it sounds...interesting.
The “Stryker TR” was designed to fill a gap in the company’s combat vehicle line, Kotchman said, since it had not offered a medium tracked vehicle up to this point.
The armor market is really going to be worth watching for the rest of this year and next.
It kind of sounds like the Hagglunds SEP that had a common chassis, but wheeled and tracked modules that could be swapped out depending on need.
ReplyDeleteAndrew of Vuurwapen blog actually has a pic of the thing... looks eastern bloc at first glance.
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