Stryker/C-130 Pics

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:06:16 GMT, (The Revolution
Will Not Be Televised) wrote:



I always wanted to know why it was just as heavy as the SLR.


Overt poltical interference in the selection process to featherbed a
domestic supplier.

You seem unfamiliar with standard MoD APC procurement policy in regard
to the Saxon, which ran along the lines of "find a Leyland production
line that needs to be kept open after losing their markets to the
Germans, and stick some armour on it".


See above.


greg

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:36:25 +0100, Greg Hennessy
wrote:

You seem unfamiliar with standard MoD APC procurement policy in regard
to the Saxon, which ran along the lines of "find a Leyland production
line that needs to be kept open after losing their markets to the
Germans, and stick some armour on it".


See above.

No ****. I presume you instruct everybody telling a joke that their
punchline was a punchline.

Gavin Bailey

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:28:11 GMT, (The Revolution
Will Not Be Televised) wrote:


See above.

No ****. I presume you instruct everybody telling a joke that their
punchline was a punchline.


Oh my, we are a bit touchy today, who ****ed in your cornflakes.


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In article , Greg Hennessy says...

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:28:11 GMT, (The Revolution
Will Not Be Televised) wrote:


See above.

No ****. I presume you instruct everybody telling a joke that their
punchline was a punchline.


Oh my, we are a bit touchy today, who ****ed in your cornflakes.


greg
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I knew it was a joke. However the vehicle, pile of sad truck parts that it is,
might just have something to do with the old Bedford series of trucks. Humour
and disparaging lego scrapheap reality rolled into one big lump of green
electricity transformer bollix on wheels. I know Gavin from the grand days we
spent in Kenya together, cheerfully shooting natives to keep the map pink. I was
later recruited by Mugabe because he liked my totally non-discriminating style
of game conservation. I now hunt wildlfe documentary film makers and sell the
meat on the black-market. The white market kind of got expelled from the
country.

On 1 Oct 2003 09:14:25 -0700, Steyr wrote:

. I know Gavin from the grand days we
spent in Kenya together, cheerfully shooting natives to keep the map pink.

When the natives start introducing maxims like "democracy", it's time
to introduce them to the Maxim.

I now hunt wildlfe documentary film makers and sell the
meat on the black-market. The white market kind of got expelled from the
country.

You should have got a job as a meejah consultant showing all the yank
camera crews around the ghetto. We could have staged some on-demand
hardcore warry actions scenes for you, like the company commander
driving his landie into the back of a tractor, ambushing the local IRA
QM on his way to fradulently claim housing benefit from the colonial
occupying power and other such cutting-edge combat situations from the
war zone.

Well, if Geraldo can do it, I think we can do it with more
credibility, and undercut his price in the process.

Gavin Bailey



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(The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) wrote in message ...
On 1 Oct 2003 09:14:25 -0700, Steyr wrote:

. I know Gavin from the grand days we
spent in Kenya together, cheerfully shooting natives to keep the map pink.

When the natives start introducing maxims like "democracy", it's time
to introduce them to the Maxim.


Self government in Africa hasn't worked since the Cathaginians.

I might add that the EU as it was then constituted by the Pax Romana
tended to think that even under the Punic regime of random mercantile
despotism, too much scope remained for littering, double-parking and
the errant use of Mare Nostrum.

It was eventually discovered that Carthage had been built without
planning permission and so regulations being regulations.......



I now hunt wildlfe documentary film makers and sell the
meat on the black-market. The white market kind of got expelled from the
country.

You should have got a job as a meejah consultant showing all the yank
camera crews around the ghetto. We could have staged some on-demand
hardcore warry actions scenes for you, like the company commander
driving his landie into the back of a tractor, ambushing the local IRA
QM on his way to fradulently claim housing benefit from the colonial
occupying power and other such cutting-edge combat situations from the
war zone.


We could try to simply re-occupy a white farm after first softening up
with some close air support and a few hundred cruise missiles.




Well, if Geraldo can do it, I think we can do it with more
credibility, and undercut his price in the process.

Gavin Bailey

I think the "BBC Journalists will be shot" notices and bilboards might
scare Geraldo just a little. He has not dome anything really brave
since he went to Dade County Florida.

In article , The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised says...

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:36:25 +0100, Greg Hennessy
wrote:

You seem unfamiliar with standard MoD APC procurement policy in regard
to the Saxon, which ran along the lines of "find a Leyland production
line that needs to be kept open after losing their markets to the
Germans, and stick some armour on it".


See above.

No ****. I presume you instruct everybody telling a joke that their
punchline was a punchline.

Gavin Bailey

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Crew 2 + 10 troops.
Hull Length 5.16 m.
Height 2.63 m.
Width 2.48 m.
Ground Clearance (axles) 0.33 m.
Combat Weight 10,670 kg.
Main Armament 1 x 7.62 mm GPMG.
Engine 164 bhp Bedford 600 6-cylinder diesel (Cummins BT 5.1 fitted to IS
variant).
Maximum Speed 96 kph.
Maximum Range 510 km.
Armour Proof against 7.62 mm rounds at point-blank range


http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/av/av_sxn.htm

That last bit is more impressive than most flak jackets if you will excuse the
comparative and approximate irony.

'The vehicle, which can be best described as a battlefield taxi, is designed
around truck parts and does not require the enormous maintenance of track and
running gear normally associated with APC/AIFVs.'

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/army/listings/l0039.html

It is a 'dressed' truck and the above description is army-speak for: 'complete
crap'.