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| [idea]How about a Javelin mount on the Gator? That way troopers won't have to lug that heavy thing around on their backs.
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...the two seat vehicle is nine feet long and five feet wide. The M-Gator can carry 1250 pounds and is small enough that up to three of them can be carried by a CH-47 helicopter without removing the troop seats.
That really doesn't sound much smaller than a WWII jeep does it?
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Regular Joe
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Just read an after action report on the M-Gator's performance in GWII. The evaluator had no negative comments and passed on generally great reviews from the troops in the field. Two areas for improvement stood out, the need for a crew served weapon mount and more reliable tires. I've no doubt that both would have been solved in the field by the troops in good time. In closing the evaluator allowed as how the vehicles had become indispensible to the units canvassed and that he would not want to be the officer detailed to take them away. Sounds like a man with a lot of sense.
A related subject - we had mules (the motorized table kind)when I was with the Cav. Couldn't use them in the field but they were great standdown toys. We proved you could get a platoon of troopers on one. And it would move far enough to get half of them to fall off.
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Originally posted by VoTrooper99
So when is the army gonna get some One Eyed Buffaloes??? [ ]
The Rice Paddy Assault Vehicle (RPAV)? That is only for SOF, too.
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Hard Charger
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| And you guys were bitching because the stryker didn't have enough armor and used tires
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Originally posted by Delta_6
A Gator is not a 'golf cart'. It is a 'combat cart'. Think of it as a modern day version of the 1960's Mechanical Mule or the atual Army pack mule of the 1930's. Unlike the USAF, Army Soldiers have more important things to do than play golf.[ ][:o)]
Delta 6 you quack me up! The gator is a Golf cart with an ATTITUDE!
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