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No Mobile Gun System for Stryker — for now

Jun-11-2005 » Filed Under: Stryker Vehicle

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By Matthew Cox, Army Times (subscription)

Stryker brigade commanders, in need of more firepower, have asked for an early fielding of the Mobile Gun System variant for street fighting in northern Iraq.

But they’re going to have to do without it.

The high-tech, wheeled cannon won’t be seeing combat for at least a year after the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (SBCT) returns home this fall, Stryker program officials say.

The high-tech, wheeled cannon won’t be seeing combat for at least a year after the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (SBCT) returns home this fall, Stryker program officials say.

The unit is equipped with the Anti-tank Guided Missile Strykers, but the wire-guided, TOW missile system is proving to be ineffective against fast-moving insurgent forces operating in crowded neighborhoods of Mosul.

“The Stryker Brigade Combat Team needs a vehicle capable of rapidly delivering direct fire explosive projectiles in confined urban terrain,” said 1-25 commander Col. Robert Brown, in an email from Iraq. [...]

The plan is to begin equipping Stryker brigades with the MGS in fiscal 2007.

“The unit is operating at a reduced capability until they get MGS,” Fuller said, describing how 1-25 had sent an “urgent operational needs statement” in March asking that the MGS be fielded as soon as possible.


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