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Stryker II

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Brian: consider a vehicle with UNBELIEVABLE FIREPOWER!! No one has ever made an ONTOS--!!!.................Stryker II
 
Ah . . . . 6 recoiless rifles loaded with anti-personnel rounds - awesome power
Mike
 
mestell said:
Ah . . . . 6 recoiless rifles loaded with anti-personnel rounds - awesome power
Mike
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Roger that Mike!! One of the most useful and cost effective weapons ever developed!! Unbelievable firepower at a moments notice. I'm sure they probably could fire all six barrels at once, but that would be something to see!!.....Stryker
 
Stryker II said:
Roger that Mike!! One of the most useful and cost effective weapons ever developed!! Unbelievable firepower at a moments notice. I'm sure they probably could fire all six barrels at once, but that would be something to see!!.....Stryker
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I always thought it was one of the best anti personnel weapons we had in the USMC. The only problem is that the 105/106 rifles had to be loaded from outside of the APC making the loader a vulnerable target. Just an opinion from a former Marine, 0331 machine gunner . . . . . . Mike
 
mestell said:
I always thought it was one of the best anti personnel weapons we had in the USMC. The only problem is that the 105/106 rifles had to be loaded from outside of the APC making the loader a vulnerable target. Just an opinion from a former Marine, 0331 machine gunner . . . . . . Mike
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Mike: I was a machine gunner on a CH-53,--M-60!! Yes the crewman had to get out to re-load, but that again was a strength, becaue you wouldn't have to until you fired 6 tank shots. Just make sure you had cover hafter that 6th round!!.............Stryker
 
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Bill: a great compact and portable weapon for a lean and specialized fighting force!!! Can you imagine what it would do in Iraq today??.............Stryker
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Well, I'd have to put it on Remote Contrl at the Batt. level, and replace the 106 tubes with.....40mm Bumpers!:cool:
 

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I have always wanted someone to bring out a decent and bigger model of the old workhorse---H-34! I think Revell had one in HO scale, but it has never been done right, and it was highly used BEFORE THE HUEY! I wish we had some Marines with M-14 rifles instead of the problem-prone M-16, which I dearly hate to this day. The M-14 was and still is, the greatest military rifle ever issued to US forces. Big business rules, so we have an undersized rifle, with a puny .223 caliber, that in some areas is forbidden to hunt with! How do we expect our troopps to fight a war with it. MAKE MINE M-14.......Stryker
 
1879fanatic said:
Well, I'd have to put it on Remote Contrl at the Batt. level, and replace the 106 tubes with.....40mm Bumpers!:cool:
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Where is that one displayed. I didn't believe that many were left intact. especially with the rifles intact
Bill
 
Stryker II said:
I have always wanted someone to bring out a decent and bigger model of the old workhorse---H-34! I think Revell had one in HO scale, but it has never been done right, and it was highly used BEFORE THE HUEY! I wish we had some Marines with M-14 rifles instead of the problem-prone M-16, which I dearly hate to this day. The M-14 was and still is, the greatest military rifle ever issued to US forces. Big business rules, so we have an undersized rifle, with a puny .223 caliber, that in some areas is forbidden to hunt with! How do we expect our troopps to fight a war with it. MAKE MINE M-14.......Stryker
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A good friend was a door gunner and mechanic on an H34 in 65/66. I was supposed to in with him but had a motorcycle accident that held be back a year
Bill
 
kx1a said:
Where is that one displayed. I didn't believe that many were left intact. especially with the rifles intact
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MAN, THATS WHAT WERE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!

Thats the most pristene example of one I have seen besides the one at the new state of the art, world reknown, Marine Corps Museum in Quantico!!!.........Stryker
 
My crew chief came up on them, and swore by them. They could take alot of hits, unlike the huey, and still keep going. I love the hueys, but there was ZERO cover in them, everything in the open!...............Stryker
 
It was also called the mechanized shotgun. 6 beehive round belching rifles with four 50 cal mg. w/3-man crew. You are right - rapid fire, run for cover, reload - then back into action. Each beehive round had 100 darts that could penetrate and clear 1/4 mile of jungle - modern day canister shot. Always fascinated by it - NVA feared it, USMC grunts loved it.

Mike
 
Stryker II said:
Mike: I was a machine gunner on a CH-53,--M-60!! Yes the crewman had to get out to re-load, but that again was a strength, becaue you wouldn't have to until you fired 6 tank shots. Just make sure you had cover hafter that 6th round!!.............Stryker
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I was a grunt 60 gunner in a weapons platoon. The black gun of death . . . .
Mike
 
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