http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=20158&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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A suicide car bomber rammed and immolated one of the battalion's
Strykers but all the occupants survived, prompting reverence for the
eight-wheel, 23-tonne monsters.
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http://www.supportusamilitary.org/Strykers.jpg
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20020320mobilenat4p4.asp
The Stryker will cost more than $2 million, he said.
/end excerpt
http://www.militarycorruption.com/stryker.htm
The M113A3’s could have been refurbished, had digital communications
installed, and been field-tested for less than $400,000 each. The
wheeled “Stryker” vehicle that Shinseki ultimately approved for
purchase is a knockoff of the Swiss MOWAG design, manufactured mainly
in Canada (a clear violation of the Berry Amendment that requires the
Department of Defense to “Buy American”), costs the U.S. taxpayers
$2.8 million dollars each, and is not as survivable as the tracked
M113s already in the U.S. Army inventory. Here’s how he went so wrong
.. . .
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The interest in the above paragraph was the Stryker cost per unit-$2.8
million dollars.
Cost to the Iraqi's was;
1 stolen vehicle=$0.00
Explosives=$0.00 if stolen or a few hundred dollars if bought.
The end result is the Iraqi's come out way ahead in encounters. It's
simple economics, high cost items means fewer can be produced.
Increased complexity increases malfunctions which results in less
deployment time.
The Apache helicopters, major bucks per unit, are very vulnerable to
small arms fire when they operate at their designed low altitudes. If
you can't use something because they're so expensive and so vulnerable
there's no point in bringing them into the fray in the first place.
The A10 aircraft is extremely efficient, cheap, and very very tough as
well as very effective. More items along that line are what should be
produced, not the delicate 'gee-whiz' stuff. Instead, the aircraft is
being rapidly phased out and the clamor is up for something new at 35
million dollars each that wouldn't be able to be used because of it's
vulnerability as well as it's breakage due to complexity!
The appearance is the top echelons is interested in manuvering for
high paying slots after they retire rather than anything remotely
resembling; efficiency, cost-effectiveness, or usefullness. Sadly,
the people who will be paying the price are the troops the
rethugnicans are howling "support!" :\
The KISS principle should be at the forefront of things instead of
'not entering the universe.'
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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