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Interesting Afghanistan Strykers pics
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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 08:26 PM UTC
From Flickr.com.

Full-options M1128 MGS :



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Partially removed slat armor :



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No slat armor :



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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 08:42 PM UTC
REAL nice picture of the MGS!!

Is that a mine roller system in front of the M1128?






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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 09:05 PM UTC

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Is that a mine roller system in front of the M1128?


Yes Looks like a SPARK roller to me...I believe the one in the last piture is a SPARK one as well, but maybe a later model (the wheel attachment arms and the mudflap supports are different ).

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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 09:27 PM UTC
Do you have any photos of the front of a M1132 with slat armor?
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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 09:53 PM UTC

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Do you have any photos of the front of a M1132 with slat armor?




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This one may not be as useful :



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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 09:56 PM UTC
I like the second one. So are the cheerleaders an option or do they come with every stryker?
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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 11:19 PM UTC
Frenchy, thanks for the pics. Do you have the last one in high resolution, too? (the one with the Cheerleaders)

We need some AM manufacturer to pick up on the MGS slat already. Scratch building in this complexity is beyond my skills, but assembling it from PE would be fine.

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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 11:48 PM UTC

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Frenchy, thanks for the pics. Do you have the last one in high resolution, too? (the one with the Cheerleaders)


Need some "chassis" close-ups ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arctic_troy/3335161601/sizes/o/in/photostream/

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Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2012 - 11:59 PM UTC
That one just made my background.
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 04:56 AM UTC
Nice pictures Frenchy,
Just wondering, what is a SPARK roller? are there multiple types of mine rollers or so?
Thanks for the pics
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 05:45 AM UTC
Hi Boris

SPARK = Self-Protection Adaptive Roller Kit.

I'm no mine roller expert, but here are the models I know :

SPARK mine roller :


I believe the SPARK is closely related to the Light Weight Mine Roller (included in Trumpeter's M1132 kit). Both are made by Pearson.

SPARK II :


Panama City mine roller (USMC) :



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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 06:34 AM UTC
Frenchy,

Fantastic photos! I know your the go to guy for photo, would you happen to have any of the Stryker ATGM M1134 in Afgan? I guess they are just not as common as other strykers.
Thanks
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 06:56 AM UTC

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From Flickr.com.

Full-options M1128 MGS :



Frenchy


I don't miss that talcum powder dust one bit.
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 07:24 AM UTC

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Frenchy, thanks for the pics. Do you have the last one in high resolution, too? (the one with the Cheerleaders)

We need some AM manufacturer to pick up on the MGS slat already. Scratch building in this complexity is beyond my skills, but assembling it from PE would be fine.

Johannes


Johannes,

Please go over to eduard.com and let them know! I've already started a thread over there on MGS Slat. I've sent them a few emails in regards to it. But they say there's not enough demand for it. So if you let them know maybe they can get started on designing a set!!
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 08:29 AM UTC

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would you happen to have any of the Stryker ATGM M1134 in Afgan? I guess they are just not as common as other strykers.


There you go....

"U.S. Soldiers with Co. C, 1-17th Inf. Regt., unload humanitarian aid for distribution to the town of Rajan Kala, Afghanistan Dec. 5" (2009):


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Looks like the M1134 in the background has no slat armor at all.

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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 09:12 AM UTC
I thought the ESV was equiped with the Pearson mine roller. Were they swapped for the SPARK when they deployed to Astan?
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 07:27 PM UTC
In the Flickr photo set which contains the first batch of pics shown by Frenchy I saw a photo of the new Double vee hull Stryker. Anymore photos of it?
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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 07:56 PM UTC

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Anymore photos of it?


Here's the one from Flickr (the Stryker DVH is on the left )



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More :







Manufacturer (GDLS) brochure

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Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - 09:12 PM UTC
Another M1134 in Afghanistan for DJ :

M1134 Astan_01

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Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012 - 12:14 AM UTC
M1126 DVHs :



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Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012 - 04:12 AM UTC

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From Flickr.com.

Full-options M1128 MGS :



Frenchy


I don't miss that talcum powder dust one bit.


I still find it in my kit from time to time...
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Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012 - 11:41 PM UTC

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Frenchy, thanks for the pics. Do you have the last one in high resolution, too? (the one with the Cheerleaders)

We need some AM manufacturer to pick up on the MGS slat already. Scratch building in this complexity is beyond my skills, but assembling it from PE would be fine.

Johannes


Johannes,

Please go over to eduard.com and let them know! I've already started a thread over there on MGS Slat. I've sent them a few emails in regards to it. But they say there's not enough demand for it. So if you let them know maybe they can get started on designing a set!!

From the photos posted here and a few I found during a quick search, the slat armor for the mgs appears to be the same as that for the icv.
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Posted: Sunday, July 08, 2012 - 12:38 AM UTC
Matt,

http://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/194484&page=1

From the side views, yes it does look like the same as the M1126, but it's completely different. Note the curved slat towards the middle of the MGS, its there so the turret has room to rotate while still providing some protecttion for the bottom portion of the turret. The one piece hanging armor plate is a different set up but the rest is all the same on every MGS.






Hope that helps.
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Posted: Sunday, July 08, 2012 - 01:24 AM UTC
Thanks for the clarification Jason. I have been wanting to do an mgs with slat armor, myself for quite some time.
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Posted: Sunday, July 08, 2012 - 02:25 AM UTC
Matt,

PLEASE send a product request for M1128 Slat armor to eduard. They dont think theres enough demand for it. Here's their email, [email protected] Please please send it to them! I'm sure if we got enough people to do it that, then we'd have a slat armor set for the M1128!
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