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U.S. Army Welcomes 1,000th Stryker
The U.S. Army received its 1,000th Stryker armored vehicle earlier this month, marking a major milestone for a development program begun less than five years ago.
The vehicle was delivered Jan. 13 to Anniston Army Depot, the same place former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki signed for the first Stryker in April 2002. Anniston assembles two-thirds of the Stryker vehicles, and the other third are built in Canada.
Almost 800 Strykers have been completely assembled — 311 of which have been in Iraq for the last 14 months, logging more than 4 million miles, according to an Army statement. Top Army officials have lauded the vehicles as much for their swift, quiet movement as their high operational availability rates.
“The extraordinary performance [of] the two Stryker brigades that we had in Iraq are going to be legend in my view,†Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army’s current chief of staff, said Jan. 14 at an Association of the United States Army’s Institute for Land Warfare breakfast in Arlington, Va.
The Stryker has 10 variants: infantry carrier vehicle, anti-tank missile guided vehicle; reconnaissance vehicle, fire support vehicle, engineer squad vehicle, mortar carrier vehicle, commander’s vehicle, medical evacuation vehicle, mobile gun system, and the nuclear biological and chemical reconnaissance vehicle.
The Army plans to receive another 1,451 vehicles produced by General Dynamics Land Systems.
Source: (subscription link - Defense news)
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I uploaded some pictures of this beast! dono if when they 'll be approved?