..................ในยุคถูกปิดหูตา ผมขออนุญานำข้อมูล New Stryker Gun System ที่ทางStryker นำปืนใหญ่ขนาด 105 มมไปติดบนรถหุ้มเกราะ มาให้ชมกัน.................ครับ/สกายนาย

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ข้อมูลที่ลงในเว็บไซด์ดังกล่าว "FORT LEWIS, Wash. (Army News Service, Aug. 29, 2006) A long wait is
over for Stryker Mobile Gun System (MGS) crews of the 4th Brigade, 2nd
Infantry Division.



The 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry, received its complement of MGS
vehicles last month after more than a year of waiting. They are the
first vehicles to be fielded in the Army.



I think its going to give the infantry a whole new dimension of what
they can do. Armor and infantry have kept each other at arms length
for years and years," said Sgt. 1st Class David Cooper, an MGS platoon
sergeant with B Company, 2-23 Inf. "Weve got some growing pains, but
once we get out there and they see what we can do, were going to be
everybodys friend.



Each infantry company is slated to receive three vehicles, though crews
don't expect to operate together except on rare occasions.



The vehicles carry crews of three, and are equipped with a 105 mm main
gun and a state-of-the-art fire control system. The MGS also has an
onboard coaxial machine gun thats fire controlled.



You can literally shoot smiley faces with it at 900 meters, said
Cooper. Even minus the big gun we can give the infantry a lot of
support.



The 105 mm is capable of firing four types of rounds: SABOT, a
depleted-uranium armor-piercing round; HEAT, high-explosive anti-tank;
HEP, high-explosive plastic; and a canister round. The rounds are
loaded using a hydraulic auto-loader in the rear of the vehicle.



The HEP and canister rounds give Stryker units new capabilities,
especially in urban areas. The HEP can blow holes in reinforced
concrete walls, but unlike the rounds from an Abrams, wont continue
through the target and into surrounding buildings. The canister
provides as effective anti-personnel capability.



The vehicles basic role is to support the infantry. Its not there to
take on tanks or go toe-to-toe in the wide-open desert like we did with
the Abrams, said Sgt. 1st Class William Ozmet, an MGS instructor from
Fort Knox, Ky. Its primary function is blowing a hole in the wall or
blowing up bunkers.



Over the past year, the crews have been training with TOW-ITAS Humvees
or other Stryker variants. Finally having the vehicles gives the crews
a chance to delve into training.



I can actually start focusing on our training, both on our mission
tasks and working with the infantry, said 1st Lt. Christopher Lilley,
the MGS platoon leader in B Co.



The MGS also comes equipped with training software that allows Soldiers
to train on various engagements in their own vehicles, instead of going
to a simulator somewhere else.



Once the 4th Bde. completes training, instructors from General Dynamics
Land Systems will move on to equip and train Soldiers in Hawaii and
Pennsylvania. Training for those units may change according to lessons
learned here, but the vehicle itself is expected to remain mostly
unchanged."