Machines | M1 Breacher AKA Grizzly
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The Grizzly [initially designated the Breacher] is an armored vehicle designed to breach complex obstacles including mines, berms, wire, rubble, and tank-ditches. The GRIZZLY will breach obstacles with minimal preparation creating safe lanes for other vehicles in the dominant maneuver force with little or no loss in momentum. The GRIZZLY's obstacle clearing features include a full-width mine-clearing blade and a powered, extensible excavating arm. GRIZZLY is a Military Load Class 70 complex obstacle breaching vehicle which will integrate advanced countermine and counter-obstacle capabilities into a single survivable system. GRIZZLY will incorporate a full width Mine Clearing Blade (MCB), Power Driven Arm (PDA) for obstacle reduction and digging and a commander's control station (CCS) (crew compartment). It will have a remote fired 50-caliber machine gun and grenade launched screening smoke for self-defense. GRIZZLY will breach an 600 meter complex obstacle in 21 minutes and breach an antitank ditch in 5 minutes. GRIZZLY will be capable of breaching other types of natural and man made, simple and complex obstacles, creating a lane for vehicles to follow. It will integrate the technologies incorporated in the M1 & M2A3 chassis with the GRIZZLY mission modules. GRIZZLY is designed to provide the Digital Division with mobility support (i.e. counter-obstacle breaching) for Decisive Operations.
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I served with one of the guys on the testing team. He said the program was sabotaged. When they went to NTC for testing they were told by the evaluators not to perform any maintenance on them. No fluid checks, no blowing sand out of the air filters, nothing period. At the end of the evaluation the evaluators said it should not be fielded because it broke down too often EVEN WITH IT'S REGULAR DAILY MAINTENANCE CHECKS. He was shocked they said that after those same evaluators ordered them not to do any maintenance. Shinseki wanted it to fail and it was one of the "unneeded" programs he canceled to provide funding for his precious Stryker program.
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Jesus Christ is God, this is the truth. In HIM was life, and that life was the light of all people. Get saved, ask JESUS CHRIST to save you !
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Haha Grimmjow.... Never said I hope for war stupid I said I can see it coming.
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@cDayz Pakistan does have weapon of mass destruction already, dumbass, fuck you for hoping for war... cock sucker...
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Well it might see action. Give it a yr or two b4 Obama conciders Iran or Pakistan to have weapons of mass destruction, then we will c them.
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I seen one while doing my 12B (21B) at FLW, it's a beast, nothing like it, it's odd as it looks like something that was not built for humans to go inside, like it's a huge brick of steel with it's own plan! The only problem with it (as I have been told) is that they only built a few of these, they are super rare like less then 10, unlike an M9 ACE. I was told however that Lima is geared to push out any number of these on demand, when they need one? Any response welcome on this!
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This never went into production as it was deemed to expensive. The German's and the Canadian use an AEV with the same kind of excavating boom called the Dach's or in English the Badger.
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because the side crane is unstable and make problems : the german tank crane KODIAK have centred arm
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if im not mistaken, i think the army/usmc have abandoned this project for one reason or another. i know the usmc went instead with the ABV which does essentially the same thing. it just doesent have that excavator arm
Exists today, ey?