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Army cannon car gets first airdrop test

Aug-26-2004 » Filed Under: General Military

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By Daily News

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE -- A new armored car equipped with a cannon has been dropped by parachute from a C-17 transport plane in a test of whether the vehicle can go into combat with paratroopers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

For the first time, the eight-wheel Army Stryker armored car, mounted with a 105 mm cannon and called a mobile gun system, was dropped from an Air Force cargo plane Aug. 13 onto the south part of Rogers Dry Lake. [...]

The armored car's cargo container is equipped with 10 parachutes -- each 100 feet in diameter -- that allow the container to hit the ground with the same force as if it had been dropped from 12 feet off the ground, Jones said.

"The next step after the feasibility test is to have the Stryker vehicle undergo full developmental testing, which will conclude when the Army performs three operational extractions," said Maj. Landon Henderson, 418th Flight Test Squadron C-17 test director and test pilot.

Developmental testing will include dropping more than one Stryker on the same pass.


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