Stryker

The Stryker family of wheeled 8×8 armored vehicles — the US Army's medium-weight mobility backbone, fielded since 2002 and combat-proven in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and increasingly armed with anti-armor and counter-drone directed-energy systems.

Overview

The Stryker is an 8×8 wheeled armored vehicle family manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems, derived from the Canadian LAV III (itself a Piranha III variant). It entered service in 2002 as the standard combat platform of the US Army’s Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, providing a rapidly deployable, C-130-transportable vehicle capable of bridging the gap between light infantry and heavy armored forces. Today the family spans more than 18 variants, from the baseline troop carrier to up-gunned infantry carriers, air-defense vehicles and experimental directed-energy weapon carriers. Ukraine has received over 150 Strykers and employed them in both counteroffensive and cross-border operations.

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