AbleGuy
Officious Intermeddler
Here’s the current entries in the competition to be the U.S. Army's New All Terrain Small Truck for Our Airborne Troops
Take a look at what just hopefully might be available to the rest of us, someday down the road as milsurp (sadly minus the mounted guns though)! Any one of these would be much more fun to run off-road than surplus Humvees.
“The U.S. Army is about to conduct a drive off among three competing trucks, all aiming to become the service's newest ride for paratroopers. The Infantry Squad Vehicle is a high speed, lightly armored truck that will jump with airborne troops out of airplanes and allow soldiers to quickly move off the drop zone....only one will be selected as the service's Infantry Squad Vehicle, which get paratroopers off a landing zone in a hurry.”
The GM entry, which “is actually based on the Chevy Colorado mid-sized pickup truck, complete with ZR2 off-road suspension package. The vehicle is 70 percent of the commercial vehicle, or commercial parts.”
“The Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) is essentially a passenger-carrying truck that can drop out the back of an airplane. Once on the ground, a nine man squad of paratroopers will pile themselves and their equipment in the back and then quickly move out toward their objective. The ISV will allow an airborne assault force to choose a drop zone farther from enemy defenses but still quickly converge on a bridge, highway interchange, or enemy airport. The ISV prioritizes speed over armored protection, an easy choice to make since a heavy armored vehicle can’t be airdropped anyway.”
The DAGOR Polaris entry, which features a turbo diesel engine and can run for 500 miles on a tank of gas. DAGOR has a 4,000 pound hauling capacity.
And the Oshkosh entry, the Flyer, which is already in service with the military is a compact truck with a roll cage, machine gun mount, and the ability to haul 5,000 pounds:
Meet the Army's New Airborne Trucks
But only one will be selected as the service's Infantry Squad Vehicle, which get paratroopers off a landing zone in a hurry.
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Take a look at what just hopefully might be available to the rest of us, someday down the road as milsurp (sadly minus the mounted guns though)! Any one of these would be much more fun to run off-road than surplus Humvees.
“The U.S. Army is about to conduct a drive off among three competing trucks, all aiming to become the service's newest ride for paratroopers. The Infantry Squad Vehicle is a high speed, lightly armored truck that will jump with airborne troops out of airplanes and allow soldiers to quickly move off the drop zone....only one will be selected as the service's Infantry Squad Vehicle, which get paratroopers off a landing zone in a hurry.”
The GM entry, which “is actually based on the Chevy Colorado mid-sized pickup truck, complete with ZR2 off-road suspension package. The vehicle is 70 percent of the commercial vehicle, or commercial parts.”
“The Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) is essentially a passenger-carrying truck that can drop out the back of an airplane. Once on the ground, a nine man squad of paratroopers will pile themselves and their equipment in the back and then quickly move out toward their objective. The ISV will allow an airborne assault force to choose a drop zone farther from enemy defenses but still quickly converge on a bridge, highway interchange, or enemy airport. The ISV prioritizes speed over armored protection, an easy choice to make since a heavy armored vehicle can’t be airdropped anyway.”
The DAGOR Polaris entry, which features a turbo diesel engine and can run for 500 miles on a tank of gas. DAGOR has a 4,000 pound hauling capacity.
And the Oshkosh entry, the Flyer, which is already in service with the military is a compact truck with a roll cage, machine gun mount, and the ability to haul 5,000 pounds:
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