{"id":59526,"date":"2015-04-27T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59526"},"modified":"2015-04-27T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:52:20","slug":"stryker-upgrades-scheduled-for-us-unit-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59526","title":{"rendered":"Stryker upgrades scheduled for US unit in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59527\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stryker-poland-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"stryker-poland\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stryker-poland-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stryker-poland-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stryker-poland.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I must be out of touch. I didn&#8217;t know that there was a version of the Stryker armored vehicle that is armed with only a .50 caliber machine gun. Apparently, that what the US sent to Europe as a sign of commitment to our allies. Now Congress is setting aside money to upgrade the vehicles to the 30mm armament according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/04\/26\/american-troops-in-europe-request-bigger-guns-amid-tensions-with-russia-over\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2nd Cavalry Regiment is requesting that 81 of its 8-wheel-drive Stryker infantry carrier vehicles be equipped with 30-mm. automatic cannons &#8212; double the caliber of the 12.7-mm. guns they already carry, the military news website Breaking Defense reports.<\/p>\n<p>The House Armed Services committee is already setting aside money for the upgrade, which the Army approved Wednesday, according to a memo obtained by the website.<\/p>\n<p>The upgraded cannons would give the Strykers added firepower against other light-armored vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess I wasn&#8217;t paying attention &#8211; I just figured that the Army was through with buying under-armed vehicles for a war in Europe since the Bradley was deployed there in 1984. A Stryker with a .50 cal. seems like a waste of money to me &#8211; but what do I know, right? What else am I missing? A Hummer with an M4 on a pedestal mount?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be out of touch. I didn&#8217;t know that there was a version of the &hellip; <a title=\"Stryker upgrades scheduled for US unit in Europe\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59526\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stryker upgrades scheduled for US unit in Europe<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}