Stryker Thread

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:22 am

Redleg, can you say "tweezers?". Borrow a set from your wife or pop down to Walmart. Tweezers and a self-standing magnifying glass do wonders.

on the other hand you would think that the designers of the Stryker machine gun station could have picked something for an example besides the pagoda mast of an old Japanese battleship. Those things are RIDICULOUS!

mike robel · Post by **mike robel** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:56 am

panzergator wrote:.

on the other hand you would think that the designers of the Stryker could have picked something for an example . Those things are RIDICULOUS!

Fixed that for you.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:05 am

And how did you fix that Mike?

mike robel · Post by **mike robel** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:24 pm

Took out the part about just the machine guns, and left the fact that Strykers are rediculous

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:43 pm

You guys are so mean to poor Stryker! To be fair, Stryker does have its uses, but a mechanized infantry platform is not one of them. High Intensity Conflict is not the right neighborhood for it, but there are are scenarios where I would rather have a Stryker than a Bradley.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:31 pm

The difficulty obtains when you need the Bradley, but you only have the Stryker. Kinda like "S**t! I coulddahadda Bradley! But all I got is this here Stryker."

Does anybody remember Stryker was an INTERIM solution?

Ah, yes, Mike. Iyamslow.

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:14 am

Anybody have an update on how Dragoons will be distributed in the Stryker Companies?

In the absence of any contrary info, I'm planning to have 3 Stryker javelins and 1 Stryker dragoon in each rifle platoon with the Platoon Leader and the three rifle squads in the javelins and the Platoon Sergeant and the weapons squad in the dragoon.

I'm also leaning towards painting them CARC tan but painting the unassigned vehicles green and filling out that company later.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 7:25 pm

Based on an article I read in Popular Mechanics, the distribution will be half Dragoon and half Javelin in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment. The Army intends to convert some Stryker brigades to heavy, giving them Dragoons and Javelins, as well. The implication is they, also, will be half and half. Other brigades will remain "light," without Dragoon. Sounds like a complicated Charlie Foxtrot that just keeps getting worse. Too little, too light, too late. The Chinese and the Russians are turning out better stuff.

Hoth_902 · Post by **Hoth_902** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:04 pm

Panzer,

Does that mean half Javelin and half Dragoon in one company or is it on company of dragoons and one of Javelins?

Cavdog,

I might start doing the oposite thing.. Paint my odd bits of strykers desert sand. Maybe form a single unit in that scheme at a later date.

Ok, This is odd. I am pulling my Stryker MGS Tanks off there painting post and I seem to have lost a chassy. Ugh..

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:15 pm

It means that, in a platoon, half the Strykers will have Javelin and half will be Dragoons, say two and two in the brigade units. I don't know the structure of the cavalry troops. None are maneuverable enough for cavalry combat.

Hoth_902 · Post by **Hoth_902** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:28 pm

Ok, I am tracking now. Thanks.

mike robel · Post by **mike robel** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:34 am

As of 2016, the Stryker CAV Squadron is organized as below. Distribution of 30mm turrets and Javelins is somewhat conjectural. 2016 is the last year I have hard data for. MCOE Supplemental Manual 3-90 Stryker Brigade Combat Team.

If anyone can point to a source for a more recent one (they used to be produced yearly), I'd appreciate a link or source to request it from. Similar documents cover the ABCT and IBCT.

HHT -
3 Strykers, probably all MG or MK19 armed
3 Strykers in the retransmission platoon, probably all MG or MK19 armed
4 Stryker Ambulances
3 CAV TRPS
TRP HQ - 2 Strykers, probably both MG or MK19
MORT SEC - 2 Strykers, probably both MG of MK 19
2 CAV PLTS
6 Strykers, probably 3 30mm, 3 Javelin (but perhaps, PL and PG, .50, 2 with 30mm, 2 with Javelin)
1 WPN TRP
HQ - 1 Stryker, probably MG
3 ATGM PLTS
3 Strykers w/TOW
3 MGS PLTS
3 Stryker MGS

In my view, the CAV Troops should have 3 platoons, not 2 (but it is the same in the ABCT and IBCT troops as well, just BFV and HMMWV respectively). Failing that, if I were the troop commander, I'd try to get the Squadron Commander's permission to reorganize int 3 4 vehicle platoons.

Hoth_902 · Post by **Hoth_902** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:51 am

Mike Robel,

What is a retransmission Platoon?

mike robel · Post by **mike robel** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:10 am

It's a signal platoon that extends the range of the radios by operating retransmission stations.

Hoth_902 · Post by **Hoth_902** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:47 am

Thanks you sir.