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Stryker / LAV III Differences?
Firecaptain
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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 03:31 AM UTC
Is the LAV-III built on the Stryker or LAV platform?

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viper29_ca
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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 04:47 AM UTC
Actually, if you want to split hairs, it is the other way around, the Stryker is built on the LAV III platform
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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 12:11 PM UTC
Thanks Scott....I have the Trumpy LAV-25, just got the
LAV-III TUA, and when I opened it I saw it was more Stryker than LAV-25. Got some LAV and Stryker books coming....

Was there a version of the LAV-25 that was up-armored?

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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 03:24 PM UTC
The LAV-A2 is uparmored, Trumpeter has a fairly recent kit out. Canada uses the uparmored Coyote, while superficially similar to a LAV-25, takes a lot of work to convert, or you can get the conversions from Real Model. (these are all LAV-II based hulls, as are ASLAV and Bison)
LAVs

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Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 - 03:42 PM UTC

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Was there a version of the LAV-25 that was up-armored?

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The Canadian Coyote deployed to Afghanistan is up armoured and resembles a LAV-25

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Posted: Sunday, May 23, 2010 - 03:14 AM UTC
Thanks for all of that helpful info gents and the pic Rick...
Much appreciated!
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