{"id":71869,"date":"2017-05-05T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71869"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:00:50","slug":"the-army-wants-lavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71869","title":{"rendered":"The Army wants LAVs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us a link to the Military Times<\/a> in which they report that the 82d Airborne Division is testing the Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle 25 as an armor asset for the division. Yeah, I’m old enough that I remember when the division had an armor battalion equipped with Sheridan tanks. I also remember the time that they demonstrated delivering a palletized tank to the Sicily drop zone and it slid into the stands causing quite a few casualties.<\/p>\n

The LAV is an eight-wheeled vehicle that weighs 31,000 to 38,000 pounds, depending on the variant. The models being tested by the 82nd Airborne have a 25 mm gun. The vehicles also use a three-person crew and can carry an additional six troops, according to General Dynamics Land Systems data.<\/p>\n

The Marines have sent four LAVs for testing and training by soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said John Myers, the deputy program manager for the Marines’ LAVs. Three other LAVs are at General Dynamics, the private company that produces the LAV and Stryker, where they are being modified for air drops, he said. <\/p>\n

General Dynamics Land Systems has already delivered one of the modified LAVs and expects to have the other LAVs ready in the next few months for a scheduled air drop, likely at Fort Bragg, in November, said Michael Peck, director of the company\u2019s Enterprise Business Development. <\/p>\n

This is the first time Peck knew of, he said, that any military client requested the LAV be used in an airdrop. But the company did its own successful airdrop tests of both the LAV and the Stryker in the early 2000s. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my opinion, they should give up on the air dropped vehicle and just focus on a light weight vehicle tthat can be delivered by landing an aircraft. I’ve had some experience with air dropping smaller vehicles (jeeps, specifically) and it rarely work well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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