From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 10:19:18 PDT
You guys are for getting the purpose of a "gun truck". No its not going to be bullet proof, no its not going to be blast proof. The Purpose of a gun truck is to supress the enemy from taking over a convoy. Only a handful of trucks is needed to protect the convoy from a "AMBUSH" not a isolated mining incident. It is not used to cary equipment. Only destructive firepower.
If the Army had enough or used "Gun Trucks" then the convoy ambush that Jessica Lynch was in would have had a different outcome.
> Jeff in VT
> From: Steve Grammont <islander@midmaine.com>
> Date: 2003/10/05 Sun PM 12:50:31 EDT
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: Re: [MV] Gun Trucks
>
> Well, I am still trying to figure out how these sorts of conversions are
> going to help. From the reports I have seen troops are getting killed by
> rather massive remotely detonated explosives. Small arms attacks don't
> appear to be a big problem and even RPG attacks appear to have dropped
> off (too dangerous for the attackers I suppose).
>
> The unfortunate thing is that not much can be done against such remote
> bomb attacks since the explosive power, if propperly shaped, placed, and
> timed, would be in excess of any practical defensive armor arrangement.
> Since it would be practically impossible to protect the gas tanks and
> batteries from such an attack, no sense waisting weight on armor for
> them. Better to put that weight towards shielding the crew area.
>
> This is a rather interesting conversion though. Looks like they cut up
> an old M113 and mounted it on a 5 Ton? truck chasis. My guess is that
> this could actually offer the kind of protection needed for the run of
> the mill explosive attack, but as Jim suggests the weight would mean it
> could either transport very little or not keep up with a convoy. But
> this is such an involved and expensive conversion, even if it did work
> the Army wouldn't be able to field more than a small handful. And that
> won't solve anything.
>
> Steve
>
> >what kind of dumb design is that it dont even shield the gas tank or the
> >batteries??
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> >Subject: [MV] Gun Trucks
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> >> Another Iraq gun truck - though I understand that this approach may have
> >> been abandoned on the grounds that the truck couldn't keep up with the
> >> cargo versions...
> >>
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