Soldiers from 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, test drive two Strykers, Jan. 29, 2020, during a Stryker drivers training course on Fort Carson, Colorado. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)
On March 4, a ship carrying dozens of Stryker armored personnel carriers (APCs) that the United States recently donated to Ukraine arrived in an unspecified German port.
Video footage that surfaced online showed the APCs being unloaded from the ship. It is still unclear when the vehicles will make it to Ukraine, where they will be handed over to Kiev forces for use against the Russian military.
The Stryker APC, which was developed by General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada for the U.S. Army, can provide protected transport for two crew and a nine-man infantry squad, and can support dismounted infantry.
The 8×8 vehicle weighs 19 tons with bolt-on ceramic armor that provides all-around 14.5×114 mm protection. It can be armed with a Protector remotely controlled weapons station with a 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine gun, a 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher or a 7.62 mm M240 machine gun along with FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles.
In January, the U.S. announced that it will send 90 Stryker APCs to Ukraine as part of a military aid package that includes 59 M2A2 ODS Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) with numerous other weapons and ammunition. Last month, the IFVs arrived in a German port. They were then shipped to Poland.
The Stryker APCs will make up for some of Ukraine’s losses in equipment. However, they will not provide any advantage in the battlefield as they are vulnerable to most anti-tank weapons in service with the Russian military today.
The U.S. and its allies are currently shipping hundreds of APCs, IFVs and main battle tanks to Ukraine in order to prepare Kiev forces for large-scale offensive against the Russian military next spring.
Whoever gets into the scrap metal and junkyard business after the war is over will be a multi-millionaire
They will be and also who works as an Undertaker of Ukrainian soldiers..
Put a tender in now
Strikers are a piece of chit death traps. I remember seeing videos on Ogrish dot com of strikers being taken out by Iraqi teens using anti-tank hand grenades.
Rumpelstilz liebt Streikers
Feeble minded Biden and his half wit vice president and queer transportation secretary wage war on American taxpayers as well as depopulating Ukraine while risking all out war.
How stupid do you think ppl are??? That‘s not in Germany. There are no trees with green foliage right now in Germany. Also, most port workers are Asian looking. That‘s somewhere in Eastern Asia. Why do you sabotage your credibility by posting such nonsense?
The name of the Swedish Prime minister is Ulf Kristersson not Krisson, actually in Swedish Krisson means son on crisis so it wouldn’t be a good name for a PM. The number of Archers is most likely 12 that is in storage and never was intended to be bought in the first place and has always been marked for export. The archer is a great high precision system and but will not have a big impact on the war and requires a logistics vehicle for every Archer like most modern western systems. The 50 CV90 (IFV) on the other hand will have a bigger impact and is one of the best in the world but still if it’s on the front many will be destroyed. The CV90 requires little maintenance and is rather low and works good in the mud as there are areas with periods of mud in Sweden.
Its not build to be at the front. The range is up to 40 km. So You ar wrong in its use.
A unike thing is it can shoot 8 grenades and level to barral, so all 6 reach exactly same target at the same time.
Its not sold much because the users need extra education for the extra facilities.
Nice to see sober information like Yours exist here.
The Chinese are wimps. SEND YOUR WEAPONS ALREADY.
Yup, chinese are faggy. Cunts rule them. Always scared of their own shadow.
You’ll be sucking Chinese dick in about-5 years
Whos gonna drive this garbage?
Tires have no business on the battlefield either…
Most of the logistics in war are carried at tires.
These ones is driven at each wheel, som it can drive with 3-4 only. The tires are special made.
Tires are now used many more places, because they have many good sides as well.
mulatto stryker always welcomed by my anus
I didnt weirte that. Youris servicadog had a bad day. The meal was old wagners.
Strikers by valuable scrap
And thats why Putin is supported with clapping hands in Kiev.
People there even demand more statues and Lavrovs and Medvedevs too.
You show Your highly censured and narrowminded world well. You have no idea of anything we are and can at all.
The Ukras have. hey at least has hope for something better being open for it as a right as almost anyone eklse is the world.
More scrap for Mr Bear’s wonderful anti fa$cist dumpster fire in rump Ukrapland. Now who is supposed to pay for all this obsolete Pentacon $crap? After Ukrapland is landlocked, defanged and chopped up among the neighbors who will pay the Pentaconners tab?
The meth bedraggled cast-offs dying on USSA’S foul streets, that’s who!
How long will these Strykers last? Will they be a stryker, or will they be sitting ducks?
The betting must be fierce.
Biden’s way of shortening the war.