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| Title: Nomorenarcissism Wheeled "LAV" can't get out of the mud |
| Description: Nomorenarcissism
From the recent PBS documentary, "Afghanistan: the Other War"
Go to 2:58 and see why the Canadians have gone to tracks in Afghanistan like other smart armies, Brits, Dutch etc.
Canadian LAV-IIIs hopelessly stuck in mud, breaks main bearing, mission aborted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFMix3dudU
What the LAV3Stryker narcissist racketeers don't want you to know is that they have to pamper their trucks and avoid uneven and soft terrain lest they get stuck and ridiculed by their peers or incinerated by their enemies. While they boast of "road speed" they conveniently don't tell you that constant land mine and car bomb detonations await their flat-bottoms ON THE ROADS resulting in heavy casualties for the mere token 309 strykertrucks in Iraq trying to hide amongst the over 2, 000 tracked M113 Gavins, M2 Bradleys and M1 Abrams doing the actual heavy combat operations with cross-country and rumble-over-rubble mobility.
http://www.geocities.com/wheelsvstracks
Adding to the list of motorized lame infantry sorrows are never ending "discoveries" of fatal flaws in the air-filled rubber-tired LAV-type egowagon. You see an early LAV-1 getting stuck here, the LAV-III/Stryker truck is even MORE BLOATED AND HEAVY!
http://eureferendum2.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
"The Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) - as it is known -is a 'conventional' wheeled armoured vehicle, one designed for the European battlefield. Its fatal weakness - in common with most vehicles of the type - is that it is not designed to be operated in a fully closed down condition for long periods of time. Visibility is restricted and crew comfort (especially when it is hot) suffers. By any measure, this equipment is far from ideal for use as convoy escorts or as patrols in counter-insurgency operations."
In fact, the "New" LAV3Stryker wheeled infantry wagon dates back to 1954: a competent U.S. Army rejected it 53 years ago!
http://www.combatreform.com/usarmyrejectedLAV3STRYKERmotorizedtrucksin1954.jpg
Page 77 of Hunnicutt's book "Bradley: a History of American Fighting and Support Vehicles" shows the post-Korean war U.S. Army considered wheeled tin cans to motorize troops along with cross-country-mobile tracks. The "revolutionary", "new" road-bound wheels were rejected and M113 Gavin tracks were built; 57 years of combat success has followed ever since. Those that say LAV3/Strykers are "newer" are incompetent ignorants of armored vehicle history or willing liars.
Narcissism and corporate greed run (ruin) the U.S. military...the USMC internally knows their LAV-1s are crap yet refuses to admit it in public lest their weak egos get bruised and said nothing when Shinseki started to buy LAV-IIIs (so much for loyalty to America and the other services) and have lusted to buy more LAVs since their thin steel boxes are corroding and cracking when not being burned through by landmines and RPGs in Iraq. Their egoracket falsade must be maintained at all costs! Form before function! Image before reality! Status quo before victory! Blame the politicians for our failures!
If you buy into the Canadian-made Stryker wheeled truck created by the liberal, big-government Clinton administration to do feel-good nation-building that is killing/maiming our Soldiers, that makes you a liberal, doesn't it?
These poor Canadian LAV-III Soldiers are just plain DEAD:
Liars say road-bound LAV-IIIs protect against land mines: Quebec Soldier Killed as Result
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=b002bedc-45bb-4...
Private Simon Longtin first Van Doo killed in Afghanistan
Andrew Mayeda, CanWest News Service
Published: Sunday, August 19, 2007
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Quebec's storied Van Doos regiment is mourning its first loss in Afghanistan after a young private who arrived in the country only three weeks ago was killed by a roadside bomb.
Pte. Simon Longtin, 23, was travelling in a LAV-III armoured vehicle when it struck an improvised explosive device.
http://www.herofund.ca/?cat=74
Name: Master Corporal Christian Duchesne
Age:34
Died: August 22, 2007
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
Children: Three daughters
Unit : 5th Field Ambulance (Valcartier, Quebec)
Master Corporal Christian Duchesne was a member of the 5th Field Ambulance, based at Valcartier, Quebec. Duchesne was killed when his armoured, LAV-III vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan.
For a sampling of all the U.S. Army LAV-III/Stryker and USMC LAV-1 needless dead:
http://www.combatreform.com/strykerhorrors.htm |
| Tags: bound, casualties, deathtrap, debacle, iraq, lav, lav-25, road, stryker, truck, wheeled |
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