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Henry's our earlier me here listen up you ever wonder how Warriors went from
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throwing stones to laying down some serious firepower
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then you are in for free
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on this episode were pushing the pedal to the metal and shooting the store with
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no Einstein that is not a tag that is an armored fighting vehicle the
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armor-plated multitasking vehicles designed to do everything from carry
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troops to feel reconnaissance to bringing their own brand to fire part of
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so get a good grip on it go Murr it's time to lock and load
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this is one of the most devastating weapons in our Arsenal today and a lot
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of people get very confused about
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damn things got tracks like a tank got a big ass gun like a tank looks feels even
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smells like a tank but it's not so you're probably asking yourself well
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it's a butt kick and Bradley an armoured fighting vehicle and it's different from
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abril you see the tanks main job is to spearhead and attack ahead of the
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dancing infantry armored fighting vehicles are designed to get to troops
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where they're needed
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so they can go in and finish the job
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I guess you could argue that the legendary Trojan horse of Greek
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mythology was one of the earliest examples of armored personnel carrier
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but things didn't really get going with AFP's until the arrival of the internal
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then in world war one the British developed a derivative of their iconic
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mark one tank which could carry up to 30 troops and protect them from machine gun
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fire as well but when the top speed of just four miles per hour and can just
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about keep up with the soldiers on foot
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the Second World War was when the foot soldiers best friend really got going I
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were awarded to every country had their very own fleet of armored vehicle now
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this one here played an important role for the Allied forces
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it's an m8 greyhound mission recon 1943 ma light armored car carries for crew
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speed 56 miles per hour
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the American m8 was introduced to world war two in 1943
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its main job was reconnaissance it would cruise ahead of the division
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look for signs of the enemy then radio that Intel back to the command
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it had to be light and fast and that's why the Prince called it the greyhound
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and in six wheel design gave it that speed and also packed machine guns and
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hard hit and cannons plants its armor could repel most small arms fire and
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here's my good buddy
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Harland Glenn to tell us about it there's 19 millimeters of armor plate up
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here and in the front on the bottom you only got three millimeters but they have
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to keep it light to keep it mobile to maintain that speed if it was you know
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way down with heavy armor plate let's say like a Sherman tank they're not
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going to be able to go very fast and it's not a fast reconnaissance vehicle
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so Harland tell me what's the range of the vehicle 400 miles going well that's
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it's like a horse for the Kaveri to go out and scout and come back and report
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to the CEO and what they found the ma was so stealthy and carrying out its
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the Nazis nicknamed these units the ghosts of Patton's army
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well let's see how this ghostly greyhound
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the first thing you notice is just how quiet it runs
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perfect for snooping around on a recon mission
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but what I'm really interested in is how it shoes
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the Machine hundred job was to lay down firepower while the driver got them out
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so what we've done is we've set up a little girl to demonstrate how the great
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how does when the lens starts flying
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oh yeah full speed ahead guys let's get it done
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the gutter lays down much suppressing fire as he can
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while the driver uses his skills to get us out of harm's way and that's the job
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done as the Recon vehicle am a greyhound is about as good as it gets
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but it's not designed to carry passengers there isn't any room for that
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you need a vehicle that can bring a squad of grunts up to the front lines
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and then cover their butts while they attack and the Germans already had one
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wow that took sup a little bit bigger like say the half-track World War two
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- 51 half-track carries to cru les 10 troops
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speed 32 miles per hour
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with the half-track the Jerry's . they could have their strudel and eat it too
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from the front this baby looks like a truck on steroids from the back this
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thing looks kind of like a tank
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well it's both sort of the wheels at the front let it steer like an ordinary
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vehicle with a regular steering wheel
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oh pretty much anyone can try min crank it up drive away
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now compare that with fully track tax of World War two
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like the Stewart these steering sticks took a lot more practice the master
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so when it came to steer and a half track the Germans kept it simple
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that was a big advantage it took less training and was more user friendly
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meanwhile the tracks it to rear allowed to come to grips with some seriously
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rough terrain as well as it crew of to the original 251 could carry 10 assault
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that's an entire squad or bug in crown lingo and they were all protected by
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armor plate which just like on the ma was less than one is sick but those
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crafty Nazis had a trick up their sleeve that allowed the half-tracks armor to
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punch above its weight and proud half-track owner Jack lagreca is in on
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their secret one thing the Germans realize what if you kept everything
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angled that you were increase the deflection for every piece of the armor
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yeah but it just makes a lot of sense you know they're shooting at you from a
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they're going to hit that thing and they can't help but hit it it's got it at an
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exactly yeah it's got a taper off so the half-track gets top marks for innovation
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but just how does this half-breed , Beal handle off-road much of this is pretty
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watch the break and you got the accelerator
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practice baby it go for a little take it for a ride yeah
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the hat rack is not powered by the front wheels
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they're just for steering all the drive comes from the caterpillar tracks under
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he's got the German grenadiers is across to read the ma could only dream about
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the 251 didn't just all troops around no sir the Germans mounted everything from
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machine guns two howitzers on this thing which turned it into a fast movement
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deadly weapon like - 20 millimeter flak gun
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now we can fire this one cousins of museum piece
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so we've got one we can't fire rigged up on this old black wagon instead of flat
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done like this made a half-track a pretty potent offensive weapon
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these flak guns were designed to take out aircraft but the Germans figured out
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pretty quick that they could take out ground troops and lightly armored enemy
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vehicles tips as well
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so stand by to get some black my ex-girlfriends car out there
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wonderful go ahead and lock and load here gag all right
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charging were loaded
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why do we go now the black gun ain't no point and shoot affair
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your hands are busy adjusting the Traverse and elevation of the gun
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so you've got to fire this thing with your feet and I've got an itchy trigger
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all right here we go
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the flat gun turned the half-track into a lean mean fighting machine
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back yeah that's what I like to see about that but like the smell of black
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now remember the half-track was designed for a totally different role than the MA
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and carry troops over rough terrain and put them where they needed to be in ww2
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the u.s. build half tracks of our own but by Vietnam our pcs were really
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rockin and rollin we're talking armored fighting vehicles him it was a recon
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card and six wheels were only so-so for off road work
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the half-track was more about go anywhere being but the open top left the
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troops inside exposed and front wheels struggled on the rough ground
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so the old military Motorhead's went back to the drawing board
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what they came up with one of the most successful armored vehicles of all time
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the m113 a fully enclosed fully track armored vehicle fielded just in time for
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the Vietnam War 1916 the m113 carries two crew and 11 truth
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speed 42 miles per hour
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this is an M 901 it's an m113 on steroids been modified to fire tow
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missiles which makes this a tank killer but underneath that's exactly the same
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flesh and bones as the original m113 this was our first modern battle taxi
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used for bringing grunts into the thick of the fight
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because the m113 was a fully track vehicle
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it could handle all the challenging terrain that's out these days you could
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it was fast light and could pretty much go anywhere
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it was a big leap in engineering from armored workhorses like the German 251
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half-track the m113 was fully track so unlike the 251 it can handle all types
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of difficult terrain and while it carried the same number of soldiers the
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m113 has been were fully enclosed and protected with new aluminum armor that
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repels so arms fire just like steel but it was still light enough to be air
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mobile and water-resistant enough to port small rivers
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this baby ate rice patties for breakfast
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now that's at least a foot of mud and a foot of water and as Staff Sergeant Ian
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Brown explains it can handle much deeper water than that when these tracks are
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moved by the driver by giving a gas they actually create propulsion in the water
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so while this vehicle is floating this is the means that it goes forward in the
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water and it can travel at about three and a half miles per hour in the water
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so we no longer need that combat bridge we don't have to call the engineers
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anymore we could drive right onto the river
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you got in Vietnam this go anywhere vehicle was soon taken a toll on the
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enemy literally by grinding and smashing over heavy jungle thickets the bad guys
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who weren't crushed by it
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nicknamed it the green dragon
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and I got to see just how well this dragonflies
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there's post-vietnam variant the m9 no one can get up to 40 miles an hour
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now that's not up there with the inmates 56 miles an hour but it leaves the
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slower hat rack in the dust
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and if you were paying attention earlier then you know that you drove the
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half-track with a steering wheel back in the day though any fully track vehicle
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still needed the old-fashioned steering sticks and the m113 wasn't any different
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for the troops riding in the back it wasn't exactly the lap of luxury
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inside it's noisy bumpy and hot
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well at least it was fully enclosed and it did provide some protection from
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above for the eleventh grunts road inside but it didn't take the bad guys
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long to find its Achilles heel
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the m113 had a week underbelly
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via con cleverly placed mines and booby traps along roads and trails
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this would lead it's you know to a lot of the troops writing on the top of the
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APC because when those mines and booby traps went off it would decimate the
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that's why you'd see the m113 going by with an entire squad riding on top that
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lightweight armor would great for speed but gave you pretty much
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zip into protection department even so its sheer versatility
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m113 quickly became the backbone of the infantry the designers created several
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variation you can pretty much put any weapon you wanted on the m113 some of
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flamethrowers others had grenade launcher later they had tow anti-tank
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missiles and there was always the good old claymore mine
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and of course not forgetting the trustee 50 caliber heavy machine gun may be
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let's go to mention
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now imagine it's Vietnam late nineteen sixties
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I'm on the lookout for any threat to me and my guys down boy
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that bamboo hut looks like a good spot to hide an enemy a modo so I figure it's
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time to give old Charlie wake up call
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we got him all right
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and while I'm laying down suppressive fire the guys inside can get out
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finish the job that's been quite like a nice explosion in the day right
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got to get thread all the stress so you go home
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stress-free who robbed being lightweight fully tract and personal has made the
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m113 one of the most important armored fighting vehicles in history
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over 80,000 of all types have been produced and used by more than 50
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countries but the wheels of progress keep on turnin and along came the
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Bradley a vehicle that's got it all
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troop carrier and butt kicker all rolled into one
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armored vehicle design has come a long way since the half-track hit the
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battlefield carrying its troops and weapons
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when war broke out Southeast Asian the USA rolled out the m113 it carried our
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boys from one in the Vietnam to the other but it's lightweight this armor
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soon proved it wasn't quite up to the job and firepower would have been darn
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useless against battlefield heavyweights like tanks
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the military was looking for an armored vehicle that could carry troops but also
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had the speed and firepower to chase down enemy tanks and kill him
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well their wish came true with the Bradley 1981 the Bradley
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Kerry's three crew six troops speed 41 miles browse
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the Bradley as a fully track fighting vehicle was sophisticated armor to
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safely deliver troops and battle but the Bradley is not your granddaddy battle
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between the 25 millimeter chain gun and a 7.62 millimeter machine gun and told
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missiles the Bradley delivers more than just truth
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this is one state-of-the-art fighting vehicle with a head knocking power punch
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the Bradley has taken over from the m113 as the US military's fully track
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it has a crew of three and carries up to six troops in the back
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it's aluminum and ceramic armor gives better protection than the m113 its
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wider tracks make it more stable on rough ground and it can even power
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through water and seven miles an hour
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introduced back in nineteen eighty-one it wasn't until the gulf war nearly a
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decade later when it first saw action since then over 6,000 of these bad boys
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have been patrolling the Badlands from Basra and Baghdad US army major
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McDonough earned himself a Bronze Star for service in Iraq here at the
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averaging test center in Maryland he's the Bradley go-to guy carries not just
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the firepower to destroy any vehicle in the world but more importantly it
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carries a dedicated instrument in the back
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basically it can take troops to the battle and then it didn't hang around
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and support those troops whether fight
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absolutely they're in the first go for the Bradley destroyed more Iraqi armored
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vehicles than the mighty Abrams tank but it also struggled against iraqi and I
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tech weapons like rocket propelled grenades and Stan armored just doesn't
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offer enough protection
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the same problem the German half-tracks could be with their angle armor and the
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m113 also fell short with its aluminum armor
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so for the Brantley the solution was this and on armor but Bradley react the
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tyler Bradt tile which provides protection against all handheld and I
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think sort of fired missiles
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the tiles are reactive armor that covers the front sides and turret of the
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each tile has a slab of explosive sandwiched between two metal plates when
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hit the explosive between the plates detonates neutralizing the incoming
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round an advantage the m113 never had back and be it now
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it's a simple little thing you know but it's a pretty important thing
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absolutely the Bradley's got some cool stuff that earlier am bees didn't have
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like air conditioning shock-absorbing seats to prevent injury from the road
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mine and a video display to see what's going on outside
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I hear this thing right pretty sweet to let ppl go baby handle
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the first thing you notice about driving the Bradley is that it's tier just like
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I bet like the half-track of world war two and much easier than the steering
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sticks of the m113 but with wider tracks and the 600 horsepower turbo diesel
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it's every bit as fast as its lightweight predecessor
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this is my baby right here that doesn't force car
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and if i wanted to fight all gasp that's a good thing you have to be doing it
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with you know i'm talking about 225 millimeter Jane god
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remember how I told you that - fire guns on earlier am these men
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the gunner was up on top exposed like a cent duck
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well with Bradley the governor is safe inside the vehicle so we can concentrate
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on the job at hand instead of duck
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now imagine this to end still play to the side of an Iraqi tank
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I bet it's no matter for a 25 millimeter chain
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and that without talking about
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and with digital zoom control it is deadly accurate taking yourself a target
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bother anybody ever ever again target is dead
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but if against real heavy armor the Bradley packs an even bigger but thanks
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to its tow anti-tank missile now the Bradley has to stop before it can find
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these high explosive shaped charge warheads
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but since they travel at close to the speed of sound
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and reach out two and a half miles
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there isn't much chance of escape
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intensive first came into action to Bradley has proved to be a reliable
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survivable and lethal war machine
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but the modern battlefield needs even better vehicles that can carry even
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ok let's go over where we've been with the armored vehicle world war two saw
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it was like and fast on flat surfaces that only carry the crew for that
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half-track can carry a squad of 10 over rough terrain but let them a little
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the pulley track m113 put the troops in a totally enclosed cabin but it had
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lightweight armor a week belly
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so the Bradley introduced high-tech reactive armor but even that struggles
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against the ever-present threat from roadside bomb salad brand new fleet of
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armored vehicles was created
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2004 and breath carries two crew of six to ten troops be 65 miles an hour
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and wrap stands for Mine Resistant ambush-protected it is a class of
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armoured fighting vehicle specifically engineered with one major purpose in
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mind to save the lives of troops by protecting them from IEDs or similar
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roadside bomb attacks American MRAP design was based on the lessons learned
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from the guys and gals fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan guys like Chief Warrant
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Johnny i was in iraq in 2004 and we didn't have em raps and at that time all
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the services were scrambling to get their other vehicles equipped with
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whatever armor they could get and I was actually on a Humvee
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they got hit with an ID and and it wasn't not nice
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troop transports like some fees and jeeps have little if any armor
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underneath making them vulnerable to mines and IEDs the underside of these
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vehicles are riddled with pockets where the gas and blast waves of an explosion
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can be trapped and focused against the vehicle
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the results can be dead
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what happened was all the services started putting in a requirement to get
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armor put on their MTV's MTV are some buddies and what we ended up getting to
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was them wrapped platform now these vehicles really are an engineering
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breakthrough see the emperor has a smooth v-shaped all
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there's not only acts like traditional armor but the smooth side stop the blast
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energy from getting trapped and the be shaped deflects the shrapnel and blast
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energy out and away from the vehicle and there's another feature on all my apps
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that helps the v-shaped old to work all the vehicles are designed with the Rays
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chances which gives you a better stand off from where the blast would explode
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so you've got the standoff
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and then there's the blast explodes that v-shaped hull allows that fragmentation
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in the blast the blast out words
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compare this to tracked vehicles like the m113 or the Bradley
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they both set much closer to the ground and their underbellies are flat making
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them more vulnerable to an IED blast an MRAP with its be shaped hole this
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life-saving design is incorporated into each variant type of the mrap vehicles
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and service and there's no shortage of those these vehicles right here may all
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look different but they're all the same family of them wraps
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there are three categories up and they all have the same mission protect the
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troop category 1 MRAP are four by four vehicles used for patrol and urban areas
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and confined spaces tearing up to six troops and cheap womble knows all about
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this is the BAU cat 1 4 by 4
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they took the original bae cat 1 and tweaked it
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this is what you're looking at
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why would they want something like this well it's smaller it's lighter than the
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cat - so provides a little more mobility category to em raps are larger and have
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six wheel drive for long-range basis
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they're designed to carry up to 10 truth
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and this category can be adapted for a whole mess of different jobs we had the
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need for a real ambulance so engineers went in and develop an ambulance
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so it's got all the medical equipment in there that a standard ambulance it does
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so what about to category three
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well there's only one type and it's called the Buffalo
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this is exclusive to the explosive ordnance department for the disposal of
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IEDs and other threats at 27 feet long
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this is the biggest of the bunch made for two crew or engineers and one he OD
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robot those the guys you know that go out and pick up the IEDs and look at
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them and interrogate them investigate them and they can do that from the
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safety of the vehicle while of remote control robotic arm checks out to
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they're finding more IDs than ideas that go off
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you know a lot of bang for your buck here as far as I'm concerned that the
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saved one life yeah absolutely
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more than 12,000 ever have been deployed to iraq and afghanistan
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we're continuously upgrading our engineering and trying to improve all
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the platforms like this category 2 MRAP here called the coop and it's being
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upgraded with a new independent suspension and lighter armor
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that's to help keep it on track in the mountains of Afghanistan where road
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conditions are well someone less than perfect
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and the main thing that protects the troops as it drives them into combat
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correct that's the most important part of this vehicle
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yeah let's take her for a spin on the Aventine test center driving course
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got to be a damn gymnast to get into thing down
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each category of a map can travel at up to 65 pounds per hour as i showed you
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with the am a freak on carved world war two wheels are a lot smoother at higher
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speeds and lot quieter than track vehicles like the m113 and company
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but amrap wheels have another big advantage
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I can keep driving even if the tires are shot out
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that and the take advantage of the Cougar speeding wheel
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it has a more powerful engine and higher ground Claire
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so it can tackle drain that's even rougher than mrs. got his tongue lash
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boom yes oh man I gotta tell you got here this is some you guys have any job
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openings here they might gonna haha
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boy I could sure use that every day I think we were airborne and 24 tonnes
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oh and the key point is yeah nothing's broke
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nothing's broke we're ready to go now and wrap is one smooth-running machine
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just about anywhere
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but I bet you'd be more interested in how shoes
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now put your whining because we're almost there
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gonna basically that's what you see up there is the objective Gunners
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protection kit what we call the ogp k and that platform will accept any of the
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standard for heavy machine gun some category 1 and 2 ever and shoes a remote
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weapon system up top
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so the gutter can fire off grounds without being exposed to enemy fire
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but i'm a more hands-on kind of guy
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especially with a mini guy i rep I'm no stranger to the many God has been around
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for a number of years not one on top of those MRAP and it turns his troop
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carrier into a serious offensive weapon and the good folks here at aberdeen test
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centres have set up a target ports to try our hand at it's a concrete wall
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about 250 meters down range
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let's see how I do in today's urban combat this concrete wall could easily
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be hiding a bunch of bad guys with RPGs
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that many guns rotating multi barrels can fire off more than 3,000 rounds per
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that's over 50 rounds a second
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oh yeah there we go
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now that's what I'm talking about we not dressed that target down with the fish
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80 an extreme versatility the MRAP fleet is a highly survivable line of vehicle
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and when the weapons and carries it can also dish out destruction with its go
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anywhere capability it can safely operate on any terrain and also keep up
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with other high speed combat vehicles including the striker armored fighting
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vehicles have been an essential part of our Arsenal for the last century and one
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of the latest is diem rate highly survivable fleet of vehicles designed
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mainly to protect troops in urban combat zones but for the ultimate in all round
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protection with a gun that's a real tank killer the u.s. military came up with
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the striker carries two crew plus 9 troops speed 62 miles brow
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the striker is the centerpiece of the US Army's high-tech transformation to
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becoming a modernized well-trained and well-equipped binding machine
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the striker takes the best of all other fighting vehicles and put some all into
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it has the high-speed wheels of the Emperor the troop carrying cargoes base
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of the m113 and it's got some heavy-duty firepower like the Bradley all of that
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combined with its state-of-the-art he's dropping equipment means that the
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striker can strike before the enemy knows what struck oh it's eight wheels
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run fast quiet and smooth and the armor cabin would protect them from enemy
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the military is all n and bent in the house on this advanced armoured fighting
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vehicle and brian hill every test center striker team leader will tell us all
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about a lot of naysayers when the striker came out were upset with the
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fact that the army was going to go with it with a wheeled vehicle over tracks
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tracked vehicles have a little bit better mobility over cross-country
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terrain in these but it takes a lot of time to keep those tracks up and running
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because it has eight tires if one of them gets shot out the striker didn't
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skip the be so if a round punctured the tire sure the tire goes flat but you can
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still get out of danger and get it out of the hot spot and the striker can be
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easily adapted for all kinds of roles
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it can be a recon mission vehicle like the am a greyhound and infantry carrying
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vehicle like the m113 and even a medevac vehicle like the MRAP so the striker
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really is the best of all previous AAFES rolled into one mighty vehicle and it's
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still got to heavy firepower
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sure you could go toe-to-toe with with another tank but if you have to if you
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have to but but the strikers main feature is its mobility
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it's a pretty light skinned vehicle it can take small arms fire and defend
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itself pretty well against that night on the battlefields of Iraq
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there's much bigger threats like improvised roadside bombs
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how effective is the armor on this vehicle against those there are ad on
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protective armor kits
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depending on the threat that's in the area they can apply those armored kiss
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one of the major threats to the strikers d RPG the rocket propelled grenade
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it's the enemy's weapon of choice so the striker gets a special type of
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lightweight armor that doesn't slow the vehicle down
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it's known as slat or cage arm it looks a bit like baseball catcher's mask
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basically a grill of steel mesh that wraps around the vehicle
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it causes the RPG to detonate before it even gets close to the strikers armor
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Brian I understand that this is a kind of a sneaky vehicle because it's muffled
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down to the point where you can't hardly hear it
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well track vehicles have always been pretty loud wheeled vehicles are a lot
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they call this thing the ghost in theater it can sneak up on people that
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can get in and get out
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sometimes before the bad guys even know it's there now remember the six-wheeled
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m8 armored car from World War two
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it was so darn quiet its crew became know
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and that is ghosts well let's see how the striker measures up in this book
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all right let's rock and roll let's go
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the striker drives 62 miles per hour out
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it's a lot faster than the Bradley's top speed at around 42 miles crowd and this
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steering wheel makes the striker a dream to maneuver and being eight-wheel Drive
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this beast has some serious on bro capable of
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now it's time to check out the weapon
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the striker is built for speed and mobility and that is a fact
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with the amount of firepower it brings to the fight and this 105 millimeter
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cannon obstet on right here
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hey that's what separates the men from the boy
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the 105 millimeter is the biggest gun ever pitted to this type of vehicle
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so let's put this baby to the test
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well right now I'm in the commander's seat you're in the Gunners seat there
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eight rounds right between us right now at any time we can punch buttons up here
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on our front panel select around type
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loading the gun and shoot it look how that round gets loaded automatically you
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can shoot in during the day you can shoot at night any time of day in any
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weather condition okay its terminal so that means it you seek eat
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yes that is right this is what a thermal image looks like day or night rain or
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shine i'm seeing the bad guy and lining him up
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ok Gunny we have a tank call at 2,400 meters and we're ready to bust it
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it's a clear day so I'm just going to line this tank up with my regular sites
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there we go right there dead on you are armed and you're clear to fire
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give us an on the way right before you pull the trigger round is on the way we
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that's an armor-piercing round ripping into that tank
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Maximum Destruction and it's fine and salute thing of beauty
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but depending on the ammo this bad boy can take out anything from soft targets
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perfect for quick response and ventre support
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sure beats the heck out of the MH machine gun
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the half-tracks black done and the end 113 weapons
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and it does all this while racing around the battlefield and similar speech to
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and that's why the striker is so dog gone
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okay there you have it devil dogs
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now the next time you hear someone call an armored vehicle a tank you squared
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away for me will you
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that's going to restart r lee ermey here keep your powder dry and your eyes on
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the target carry on
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