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Army Set to Redesign Stryker

Mar- 5-2010 » Filed Under: Stryker Vehicle

FOB Tacoma - V-shaped hull for Strykers

A change to the design of the Army's Stryker vehicle to make it more likely to withstand a blast from a roadside bomb should be coming soon, the service窶冱 chief of staff told lawmakers Wednesday.

Gen. George Casey told the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee that it窶冱 "probability more than a possibility" that Army will add a V-shaped hull to the bottom of the 20-ton vehicle. The shape of the hull would help deflect blasts from the Stryker窶冱 underbelly and is modeled from a similar design in the Mine Resistant Ambushed Protected class of armored vehicles.

"I can't take exactly how long it's going to take, because we're in the early design stages of it," Casey said. "But we are moving rapidly to get it built, tested and into the hands of the forces."


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