From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 06:52:25 PDT
At 1:55 AM -0400 10/20/04, Steve Grammont wrote:
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>I saw that! It was a 500 lbder? Geeze... Do you have a link to an
>article of some sort? I only saw the video clip shot by the insurgents
>who planed the thing. Or am I thinking of a different IED incident with
>a Stryker?
I'll have to dig it up.
>Guess that's another nail in the anti-Stryker argument. So far the
>prewar hoopla against Stryker has largely been proven to be... hoopla.
>Of course that doesn't mean Styker is a silver bullet, just not the
>complete failure the treadheads (and Gavin beneficiaries) tried so hard
>to paint it as.
Well, one the the strykers have going for them is
stealth. They're bloody quiet when they need to
be. That makes it hard to avoid them creeping up
on you.
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