M1128 Stryker MGS

"glass cannon"

• The M1128 mobile gun system (MGS) is an eight-wheeled assault gun of the Stryker family, mounting a 105 mm tank gun, based on the Canadian LAV III light-armored vehicle manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems for the U.S. Army.

• The MGS program emerged after the 1996 cancelation of the Army's M8 armored gun system, the service's planned replacement for the M551 Sheridan light tank.

• The MGS was procured in limited numbers. It has been retired since the end of 2022 due to design and operational deficiencies.

• The MGS's low profile turret has a small silhouette, is stabilized and mounts a 105mm M68A1E4 rifled cannon with a fume extractor and an autoloader. The vehicle is primarily outfitted to support infantry combat operations. While it could take on some of the roles of a tank, it is not primarily intended or designed to engage in combat with main battle tanks.

• The MGS can store 18 rounds of main gun ammunition: 8 in the autoloader's carousel and 10 in a replenisher located at the rear of the vehicle. It has a rate of fire of ten rounds per minute. The coaxial weapon is an 7.62 mm caliber M240 machine gun. The commander's weapon is a M2 Browning 12.7 mm machine gun or a 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher can be mounted.

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Controls:

Trim/Yaw : Movement Control
Pitch/Roll : Turret Control
VTOL : Hydropneaumatic Suspension

AG1 : Gunsight Low Vis. Mode
AG7: Headlights

Armaments:

• 105mm M68A1E4 Rifled Gun
  18x Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding
  Sabot

• 1x 7.62mm M240
  200 / 4000x bullets

• 1x 12.7mm M2HB Browning
  200 / 1000x bullets

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