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Training Testing Stryker Mobile Gun System

Sep- 7-2007 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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Soldiers are training and testing a new Stryker mounted cannon at Fort Wainwright this month.

The 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, is the third Stryker brigade to receive the M-1128 Mobile Gun System.

The MGS has a 105-mm, direct-fire cannon mounted on top of the vehicle, similar to the main gun on an M-1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.

The MGS has the capability to shoot six rounds per minute. The gun is self-loading, requiring three Soldiers to operate the vehicle: a driver, gunner and vehicle commander.

In comparison, four Soldiers are required to operate a M1.

"The MGS can fire four types of 105-mm tactical ammunition: high explosive/high explosive plastic (HE/HEP), high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) and kinetic energy (KE) ammunition," said Staff Sgt. Darian Howerton, brigade master gunner.

Along with technicians from General Dynamics, the corporation that engineered the weapon, 12 crews per battalion are testing the weapons on a digital, multipurpose training range.

"The (technicians) are basically teaching us about the vehicles from top to bottom," Howerton said.

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