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	M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System
		The Stryker Mobile Gun System carries a 105mm cannon, the same gun tube as the one on the original M-1 Abrams tank.
		The Mobile Gun System configuration carries a General Dynamics 105mm tank cannon in a low-profile, fully stabilized, "shoot on the move" turret.
		The pre-production Stryker Mobile Gun Systems are being assembled in the General Dynamics Muskegon technology center through December, using $62 million in research and development funds of the $4 billion contact.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/iav-mgs.htm (1572 words)

	GAO-04-925, Military Transformation: Fielding of Army's Stryker Vehicles Is Well Under Way, but Expectations for Their ...
		With the Mobile Gun System and NBC Reconnaissance vehicles still in development, it will be several years before these vehicles are fully fielded and sufficient data are available for reliable estimates of their operating costs.
		Mobile Gun System Development and Testing Schedule Ongoing but Delayed: Although developmental testing is ongoing, the development and testing schedule of the Mobile Gun System has been delayed, resulting in more than a 1-year delay in meeting planned production decision milestone dates, with initial limited production to start in September 2004.
		The Mobile Gun System cannon is designed to defeat bunkers and create openings in reinforced concrete walls through which infantry can pass to accomplish their missions.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d04925.html (9730 words)

	Assault gun-mortar
		Assault guns proved to be a very effective system but it is apparent that today the only war fighting system in the west that can offer the same capability is the 70 ton MBT, which are expensive, difficult to transport and often in short supply.
		On the roof is a remote controlled or one-man turret armed with a machine gun and 30mm cannon such as an ASP or M230.
		Guns of this sort are indispensable, when used in close conjunction with tanks with normal turrets.
	www.angelfire.com /art/enchanter/agm.html (2354 words)

	Stryker Ramps Up Mobile Gun System
		The system was developed to meet the infantry’s need for a highly mobile support vehicle to supply rapid, direct fire, specifically during close assaults, said Dave Rogers, a TSM-Stryker senior analyst.
		The Mobile Gun System's firepower includes a turret-mounted 105 mm cannon, a mounted M-240C machine gun and a pedestal-mounted M-2.50 caliber machine gun for the vehicle commander.
		This capability gives the Mobile Gun System an advantage over other Army vehicles, which must be manually loaded with specific ammunition by a fourth crew member, Rogers said.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,96661,00.html?ESRC=army-a.nl (743 words)

	Army Technology - Stryker 8-Wheel Drive Armoured Combat Vehicles
		The mobile gun system has the same C4ISR communications and driver's vison equipment as the ICV, but the gunner has three periscopes and a compact modular sight with dual field of view day and thermal channels.
		An advantage to the brigade combat teams in having the mobile gun vehicle of the same Stryker family of vehicles is the commonality across the entire capability and the reduced logistics requirement.
		The Stryker mobile gun does not require a track-vehicle mechanic as would be required for example for the deployment of an M-8 mobile armoured gun system.
	www.army-technology.com /projects/stryker (1550 words)

	NDM Article - Novel Fighting Vehicles Fuel Demand for Modern Munitions
		The 105 mm mobile gun system—a smaller weapon than the popular 120 mm cannon—will be provided to units called “brigade combat teams,” which currently are being set up and trained at Fort Lewis, Wash. The Army plans to field up to eight BCTs during the next decade.
		The mobile gun system was expected to enter the force by 2002, but the contract awarded to GM Canada/General Dynamics Land Systems is on hold, as a result of a protest by competitor United Defense LP (UDLP).
		The decision to purchase a 105 mm gun system sparked some controversy within the Army and with industrialists, who wondered whether these rounds could be produced cost-effectively, given that the Army has not bought any 105 mm tank ammunition since the Vietnam War.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2001/Apr/Novel_Fighting.htm (3347 words)

	Stryker's mobile gun system Army - Find Articles
		System descriptions from prime contractor General Dynamics note that the "MGS design carries a General Dynamics 105 mm tank cannon in a low-profile, fully stabilized, shoot on the move turret.
		The Stryker mobile gun system carries 18 rounds of 105 mm main gun ammunition; 400 rounds of.50 caliber ammunition; and 3,400 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition."
		Based on the need to implement the design changes, eight pre-production Stryker mobile gun systems were assembled in the General Dynamics Muskegon technology center in December 2002, using $62 million in research and development funds of the $4 billion Stryker contract awarded in November 2000.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200305/ai_n9254703 (820 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Army Discusses Interim Armored Vehicle (IAV) Program
		We are going to be taking the anti-tank guided missile system, which is designed as an anti-tank system, and giving it a capability which the mobile gun was required to have of being able to defeat bunkers by modifying a TOW round, and we will do that in government facilities in Anniston, Alabama.
		It is a mobile gun system which gives us direct fire capability to support the infantry elements -- the mortar section of two vehicles each with their mortars, the headquarters with the commander's vehicles, and the fire support team.
		The mobile gun system takes a 105 cannon which we already have and integrates it into the LAV chassis with a turret.
	www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2000/t11172000_t117army.html (6609 words)

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		Still in development, the Mobile Gun System is planned as one of the 10 variants in the Stryker family of wheeled, armored vehicles and is equipped with a direct-fire, 105mm cannon to destroy bunkers and other hard targets.
		The redesigned Ammunition Handling System, being made by General Dynamics Land Systems and Western Design, features a single 10-shot cylinder that is much more effective at lining up the shell with the breach during loading, said Fuller, who added that should be able to load an average of 141 shells between malfunctions.
		The redesigned loading system — along with several other planned changes to the Mobile Gun System, such as more armor to protect the 105mm cannon from hostile fire — is slated to be ready for additional reliability testing in October, with full-rate production by February 2007, Fuller said.
	www.armytimes.com /print.php?f=0-292925-548455.php (521 words)

	Military Transformation: Fielding of Army's Stryker Vehicles Is Well Under Way, but Expectations for Their ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Delay in the Mobile Gun System's development was due in part to shortfalls in meeting performance requirements of the vehicle'sfor Developmental ammunition autoloader system.
		The delayDelayed in the Mobile Gun System's development was due in part to shortfalls in limitations.22 OSD found that the Engineer Squad vehicle is not operationally suitable because of poor reliability.
		The delay was primarily due to additional time needed to develop Management Office, the autoloader system was responsible for 80 percent of the system aborts during initial Mobile Gun System reliability testing because of cannon rounds jamming in the system.
	www.washingtonwatchdog.org /documents/gao/04/GAO-04-925.html (8510 words)

	Mobile Gun System (MGS)
		The 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry, received its complement of Mobile Gun System (MGS) vehicles in July.
		The gun is a modified version of the 105mm used on old M-60 and M-1 tanks.
		The vehicle carries 400 rounds for the 12.7mm machine-gun and 3,500 for the 7.62mm machine-gun.
	www.defense-update.com /products/m/mgs.htm (135 words)

	Annex B MGS
		Operational and Organizational Concept: The principal function of the Mobile Gun System (MGS) is to provide rapid and lethal direct fires to support assaulting infantry.
		Decisive action is achieved through the conduct of deliberate assaults by infantry companies and platoons employing their infantry dismounted, and supported by company mobile gun systems positioned to optimize their supporting direct fires against hardened positions.
		Additionally, the MGS fire control system should be equipped with the capability to determine basic indirect fire solutions.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/bct/Annex-B-MGS-31-Jan-00.htm (1685 words)

	General Dynamics Corporation WebCenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In April 2004, the Canadian Government announced that they would be entering into negotiations with General Dynamics Land Systems — Canada for the acquisition of 66 Mobile Gun Systems.
		The Mobile Gun System is a variant of the Stryker family of infantry combat vehicles that are currently being manufactured for use by the U.S. Army Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
		The company is a market leader in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation.
	www.shareholder.com /gendyn/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=151364 (356 words)

	Edwards Air Force Base - C-17 testers airdrop Army Stryker Mobile Gun System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An Army Stryker Engineer Squad Vehicle equipped with a Mobile Gun System, or MGS, is extracted from a C-17 from the 418th Flight Test Squadron.
		"There is a present need to have airdrop capability for the mobile gun system, and we performed the feasibility test to see if the impact of an airdrop is consistent with static impact testing the Army has already completed," said Alec Dyatt, 418th Flight Test Squadron C-17 CTF flight test engineer.
		The purpose of the feasibility airdrop was to verify if the extraction system was adequate, demonstrate the system could be extracted safely and verify there was sufficient clearance in the C-17 for the payload to be extracted, said Dan Jones, 418th FLTS Boeing mission systems engineer.
	www.edwards.af.mil /archive/2004/2004-archive-c17_army.html (515 words)

	Army Times - News - More News. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stryker brigades are slated to receive the long-awaited Mobile Gun System and new reactive armor plating, Army officials said today during a Pentagon briefing on the proposed fiscal 2007 budget.
		Among the many variants to the Stryker wheeled vehicle is the mobile gun system, which features a stabilized, direct-fire 105mm cannon mounted atop the vehicle for destroying such hard targets as bunkers and barricaded enemy positions.
		The Army plans to spend $796 million on 100 Strykers — 65 of which are the first mobile gun systems to be fielded.
	www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1517090.php (396 words)

	The Sons Of Big Boss
		The gas turbine propulsion system has proven quite reliable in practice and combat, but its high fuel consumption is a serious logistic issue (starting up the turbine alone consumes 40 liters of fuel).
		The program to develop this system was canceled in 1966 after a drone collided with the mother ship at launch, destroying the M-21 and killing the Launch Control Officer.
		Its main systems and units are duplicated; the main and backup systems are arranged on different sides of the airframe to prevent their being damaged by one projectile.
	members.tripod.com /solidsnake19148/other_vehicles.html (6006 words)

	General Dynamics Corporation WebCenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		LONDON, Ontario, Canada — During a visit today to the General Dynamics Land Systems — Canada plant in London, Ontario, the Honourable David Pratt, Minister of National Defence, announced that the Canadian Government is set to enter into negotiations with General Dynamics Land Systems — Canada for the acquisition of 66 Mobile Gun Systems.
		It will provide mobile direct-fire support and is a key element of the Canadian Army Transformation.
		The company has leading market positions in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat vehicles, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation.
	www.shareholder.com /gendyn/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=151204 (318 words)

	Stryker Mobile Gun System finally arrives: Murdoc Online
		The Stryker MGS variant is a direct-fire infantry assault platform with a 105mm cannon mounted in a low-profile, fully stabilized, "shoot-on-the-move" turret and integrated into the Stryker chassis.
		It carries 18 rounds of NATO- standard 105mm main gun ammunition; 400 rounds of.50 caliber ammunition; and 3,400 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition.
		There were also other side issues - like the gun would deafen troops within quarter mile and the recoil threw the targeting systems out of alignment.
	www.murdoconline.net /archives/003199.html (849 words)

	TonyRogers.com \| Stryker Light Armored Vehicle III (LAV III)
		The Mobile Gun System will have a 105mm cannon, the same gun tube as the one on the original M-1 Abrams tank.
		Before the Mobile Gun System is fielded, units will get the Anti-tank Guided Missile Vehicle which will have a TOW system capable of blasting through reinforced concrete bunkers.
		The first interim brigade combat team will contain three substitute vehicles, because the mobile gun system and support systems for the nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance vehicle, and the fire support vehicle, would not be ready by May 2003.
	www.tonyrogers.com /weapons/stryker.htm (2193 words)

	That's gotta' come down like a load of bricks: Murdoc Online
		Not only did the Air Force airdrop a Stryker, but it was the Mobile Gun System variant, which is heavier than your standard Stryker.
		The Army is testing the 52,500-pound system to possibly equip the armored vehicle to meet operational needs.
		Maybe the Stryker crowd is feeling heat from the activation of four M8 Buford Armored Gun System prototypes with the 82nd Airborne.
	www.murdoconline.net /archives/001521.html (1777 words)

	General Dynamics Delivers First Stryker Mobile Gun System to U.S. Army Stryker to be centerpiece of Millennium ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is part of a $4 billion order awarded in November 2000 to GM GDLS Defense Group to equip the new Brigade Combat Teams with 2,131 Stryker armored vehicles.
		In the Mobile Gun System configuration, it carries a General Dynamics 105 mm tank cannon in a low-profile, fully stabilized, "shoot on the move" turret.
		The Stryker Mobile Gun System can fire 18 rounds of 105 mm main gun ammunition; 400 rounds of.50 cal ammunition; and 3,400 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition.
	www.gdls.com /releases/releases_2002/LS-02-06.html (511 words)

	Canada To Buy Mobile Gun System (Oct. 30) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		OTTAWA --- The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of National Defence, with Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Land Staff, announced today that the Government of Canada has approved the acquisition of a mobile gun system for the Canadian Forces.
		A mobile gun system will provide the Army with a direct-fire capability consistent with its vision to transform into a medium-weight, information age force as outlined in the Army Strategy.
		Acquisition of a mobile gun system will allow us to replace the current fleet of Leopard tanks and continue to maintain direct fire capability.
	www.defense-aerospace.com /produit/28031_us.html (267 words)

	Defence Talk Forum - Stryker-Future Of Armoured Personal Carriers
		The Stryker Mobile Gun System variant consists of the basic vehicle with a General Dynamics Land Systems fully stabilized shoot-on-the-move Low Profile Turret.
		The 105mm Gun variant of the Stryker will also not be able to stand up to main battle tanks, of almost any variant.
		One was a mobile ADS fitted with Chapparrals (spell?) They were trying to convince the ADF to buy some.
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=1675 (2491 words)

	CBC News In Depth: Canada's Military
		The eight-wheel-drive Mobile Gun System is based on the LAV III platform, already in extensive use by the Canadian Forces (there are currently 651 LAV variants in operation).
		The Mobile Gun System is also used by the U.S. military, which ordered 2,131 of the vehicles in November 2000.
		U.S. tests have proven the Mobile Gun System is able to fit inside a C-130 Hercules aircraft – the Canadian Forces' main air transport.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/cdnmilitary/equipment.html (893 words)

	U.S. Stryker Mobile Gun System (MGS) - Military Photos
		According to an Army source, the MGS is now "on a glide path" toward approval of low-rate production, a decision that is due in August or September.
		However, the MGS experienced some hiccups in development, including a cramped crew compartment, glitches in the ammunition-handling system and the "halo effect"—a ring of overpressure and blast debris caused by firing the cannon, which originally had a perforated muzzle brake at the end to lessen recoil.
		Related: Not the Mobile Gun System, which is armed with a 105mm tank gun, but an indirect-fire artillery system.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=13612 (908 words)

	Stryker Ramps Up To Unveil Mobile Gun System
		BAE Systems has received an additional order from the U.S. Navy to deliver 67, Mk 38 Mod 2 gun mounts to go aboard cruisers, destroyers and Landing Ship Transport Dock ships.
		The Mk 38 Mod 2 is a 25mm stabilized gun system that provides the last layer of ship protection.
		The system is highly autonomous and has an effective range of approximately 1 mile.
	www.spacewar.com /reports/Stryker_Ramps_Up_To_Unveil_Mobile_Gun_System.html (1079 words)

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