OT: 82nd Airborne adds LAV-25 unit

[shrike6]

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-...s-style-punch/

[kato13]

The headline I saw for this was "Finally the Army gets Marine hand me downs"

[Cdnwolf]

And at about the same time...

28 temporary workers at London, Ontario General Dynamics Land Systems Canada are out of work following a review by the company.

In an emailed statement to 980 CFPL, Doug Wilson-Hodge Manager, Corporate Affairs for General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada wrote the company “reviews our volumes and planned work as a regular course of business. Positions affected are temporary contract agency positions.”

The layoffs, mostly the engineering area, happened on Tuesday.

[pmulcahy11b]

Yeah, they also did the LAV-25 thing in the early-1990s. Fiddle-fu**cked around with the idea, designed some half-assed tactics for it's use, airdropped it a few times, and generally fooled around with the idea until it died an unnatural death due to overstupidification. Then got rid of them, to the chagrin of 3-73, at the time the only armor unit in the Army with no actual armored vehicles.

Us infantrymen would have loved to see some armored backup, preferably something that had enough gun to take a stubborn blockhouse and stop a tank or two for us.

[ChalkLine]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Us infantrymen would have loved to see some armored backup, preferably something that had enough gun to take a stubborn blockhouse and stop a tank or two for us.

Australians in Afghanistan liked how a distant AUS-LAV could add its autocannon to the firefight, winkling out difficult positions and making it impossible for the enemy to stay settled for too long

Of course they're going now and being replaced by Boxers

[Legbreaker]

Yeah, I just can't wrap my head around the reasoning behind ditching the ASLAV. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Replacing the M113's with the Boxer, sure, but I'd have thought the ASLAV's had at least another decade in them.