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Dragoon Stryker in progress from Afv club
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Posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:27 PM UTC
Also afv club have a Dragoon Stryker in the line for release, the news come from the afv club facebook site.. No photos yet.. Hope it will be released soon

https://m.facebook.com/AFVCLUB.TW/photos/a.236926689686191.56515.236926266352900/1819328674779310/?type=3&source=48
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 05:29 AM UTC
Hope this one will not be the same version than the Panda Hobby kit.

New tool or updated moulds of their first strykers ?
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 05:35 AM UTC
There is only one Stryker Dragoon. I spend my money on AFV Club, after I finished my Dragoon scratchbuild/conversion.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 05:36 AM UTC

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Hope this one will not be the same version than the Panda Hobby kit.

New tool or updated moulds of their first strykers ?


They only need a new hull deck, turret and wider tires.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:13 AM UTC
OK so updated.

I have just found a pic of one photographied in Afghanistan in 2011.

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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:32 AM UTC

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OK so updated.

I have just found a pic of one photographied in Afghanistan in 2011.



that's not a Dragoon.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 12:03 PM UTC
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 01:06 PM UTC
M1296 Stryker Dragoon


It was fielded late last year and only to 2 SCR in Germany. Only 82 will be built and only for use in Europe.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:00 PM UTC

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Hope this one will not be the same version than the Panda Hobby kit.

New tool or updated moulds of their first strykers ?


this will be Pands'a first stryker maybe you are thinking about trumpeter.
Trumpeter makes a model of every varient except the M1128 Mobile
Protected Gun System which is only made by AFV Club
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Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 03:40 AM UTC
As somebody who prefers an easier build (with decent accuracy) over a more accurate (but fiddly to build) model, I hope that Trumpeter puts out a Dragoon someday. I'd love to see them make an MGS too. In the meantime, I'll get the Panda Dragoon (crossing my fingers that it's buildable) and the AFV Club Dragoon (knowing that there will be a ton of fiddly bits). Be nice if they'd put out the never-purchased Stryker Howitzer or the Anti-Aircraft variant the vendors built too. My skills aren't up to scratching either one.
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Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 09:48 AM UTC
Cool
/ Robin
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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2018 - 11:51 PM UTC
Somewhat OT - is the assault gun variant with the 105mm cannon still in service? Haven't seen many pics of it lately deployed in Europe. One would think that with the increased push to improve leathality of these vehicles, this variant would find itself in demand.
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Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2018 - 12:15 AM UTC
For sure, the M1128 Mobile Gun System is still alive and kicking. But it´s not an assault gun but rather intended for destroying enemy field fortications. Fighting enemy tanks is the task of the M1134 ATGM variant.
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Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2018 - 12:38 PM UTC

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For sure, the M1128 Mobile Gun System is still alive and kicking. But it´s not an assault gun but rather intended for destroying enemy field fortications. Fighting enemy tanks is the task of the M1134 ATGM variant.



Just semantics but I'm pretty sure that's the role of an assault gun (going back to the Stug's of WW2). To support the infantry by using direct fire on fortifications, entrenched weapons, etc.

I think that 105mm gun would be hard pressed against current Russian tanks.
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