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Army Working on Improved Stryker A1

Feb- 4-2010 » Filed Under: Stryker Vehicle

The Army is working on a new and improved Stryker armored vehicle variant, known as the Stryker A1, that will boost the eight wheeled vehicle’s performance giving it a bigger engine, beefier transmission, brakes and suspension as well as adding new sensors, shot detection gear, a new communications network and an improved remotely operated weapons turret. [...]

The improved Stryker A1 package includes adding armor to the hull and raising the vehicle higher off the ground so that it’s better protected against IED blasts. To protect the thinly armored vehicles from Rocket Propelled Grenades, the Army added “steel cage” slat armor around the hull, meant to detonate the rocket’s warhead before it hits.

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