LAV III Mobile Gun System (MGS)

[MEV]

The MGS is dead... lets leave it be. 

 

[geo]

Not dead.... no one has said the program has been cancelled.
The Leos are out there roaming the plains outside Kandahar but no one has terminated the MGS contract.

 

[MEV]

Didn't the CLS announce that he was canelling the program ???

I'll look for the paper trail that I have somewhere on it.

 

[Teddy Ruxpin]

The previous CLS requested that DND cancel the programme in face of changing operational requirements and lessons learned from operations.  It's as good as dead.

 

[mainerjohnthomas]

"ding dong the wicked witch is dead"  sung by a conga-line of black hats along the yellow brick road....
Good riddance to the Cougar MkII (really, its just like a tank, without armour, tracks, or stopping power...)

 

[vonGarvin]

"ding dong the wicked witch is dead"  sung by a conga-line of black hats along the yellow brick road....
Good riddance to the Cougar MkII (really, its just like a tank, without armour, tracks, or stopping power...)

Or Firepower.  (Yes, I know, same gun, but only carries a tiny fraction of what a Leo can carry, and at a much slower rate of fire as well)

Or Mobility.

Or Protection.

 

[PteGDD]

And can't fire on the move, or sideways

It's as good as crap.

 

[vonGarvin]

PteGDD
The 105mm LAV MGS can indeed fire on the move.  And sideways.  But it's not a tank.

 

[Lance Wiebe]

It can fire sideways?  Wow, that's a neat trick!

Even tanks can only fire over the side......

 

[vonGarvin]

It can fire sideways?  Wow, that's a neat trick!

Even tanks can only fire over the side......

:rofl:

Yes, it CAN fire sideways!  You see, first, you install a set of mirrors, and pimp up that bee-yatch, with spinners on the tires and all that.  Next, you get a huge patch of ice.  You rock that baby out at 100 km/h, lock the brakes and go sideways and then BAM!  You fire sideways! 

 

[George Wallace]

:rofl:

Yes, it CAN fire sideways!  You see, first, you install a set of mirrors, and pimp up that bee-yatch, with spinners on the tires and all that.  Next, you get a huge patch of ice.  You rock that baby out at 100 km/h, lock the brakes and go sideways and then BAM!  You fire sideways! 

Would that be the CBS Braking System/method?    (Counter Blast Sequence)

 

[Lance Wiebe]

Of course, you'd have to have the rollover protection system enganged! ;D

 

[vonGarvin]

Of course, you'd have to have the rollover protection system enganged! ;D

That's why you fire sideways, to prevent roll over

 

[Shamrock]

:rofl:

Yes, it CAN fire sideways!  You see, first, you install a set of mirrors, and pimp up that bee-yatch, with spinners on the tires and all that.  Next, you get a huge patch of ice.  You rock that baby out at 100 km/h, lock the brakes and go sideways and then BAM!  You fire sideways! 

You're giving a simple problem a complex solution.  Just load the rounds sideways.

And until the MGS is fitted with a gun that fires bees, it's doomed to suck.

 

[SABOT]

How can you load a round sideways, if they are round?

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Since when are howitzer rounds err... round  ???

 

[TN2IC]

Since when are howitzer rounds err... round  ???

Gee... even TN2IC knew that... j/k.. I had to ask my son..

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Gee... even TN2IC knew that... j/k.. I had to ask my son..

:nana:

 

[SABOT]

Since when are howitzer rounds err... round  ???

They ain't square. 

So?  How did howitzers fit into this topic? 

(If yer Arty, isn't that round thing in the middle of your tactical sign a cannon ball?)

 

[ArmyRick]

A lot of comedians on this web site. bashing the MGS on and on.

OK, I see. everyone is an expert. Probably none of you have ever seen it in person or know of its capabilities.

The only clowns out there who ever thought of putting the MGS into a tank replacement position was us, the CF.

The yanks are now using MGS in their stryker brigades and the first ones will be deployed to Iraq this spring. They use it exactly as it was meant to be used, an INFANTRY direct fire support vehicle. Yeah, yeah, the Abrams or any other MBT are more capable than an MGS. But they wizz along at 100 KM/H plus.

Oh by the way, it does fire side ways. Without flipping over.

Oh well, maybe us silly canadians better tell the yanks to stop with the upcoming deployment of MGS to Iraq because our "armchair experts" know better.