From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 06:19:19 PDT
At 12:12 AM -0700 10/21/04, Darrell Ramsell wrote:
> Actually Kyle was in a M-2 Bradley and not a Stryker. Kyle was saved
>because the armor above him was 4 inches thick and the IED went 3 inches
>deep. Unfortunately the blast blew through the top of the turret killing
>the vehicle commander and gunner. As Aaron pointed out the blast initially
>stunned and blinded Kyle who was the driver. As soon as Kyle realized what
>happened he hit the gas and was able to clear the area before insurgents
>could target the vehicle in an ambush.
Ahh. Tough luck there. Sounds like it did the
turret in and that acted as a buffer. Was it a
shaped charge or just a general HE blast?
>As for the Stryker, I recently found an interesting picture in which the
>vehicle has a sort of fence around it.
>http://www.drum.army.mil/division/avn/3_17cav/new%20web/Pictures/HHTpics/S3%20PIX/dec%2012/stryker%20ready.JPG
>My take on it that it's designed to either destroy or detonate RPGs before
>they can hit the vehicle.
a lot of the Vietnam era riverine craft had this
kind of standoff armor for protecting against
RPG.s Not a new thing.
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