Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: M1128 Stryker MGS

Living in the area where these sweet vehicles were built, I would often see them doing road tests on mound road 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I want one.

This is an excellent channel. Been watching for a few weeks.

Dead Wasp (tm) comes standard with all motorpool equipment.

Unless you're unfortunate to get Live Wasp (tm).

Dammit no track tensioning

I feel like one day we will nail this design well. I think it has some advantages. Maybe wider wheels with protected hubs, nice suspension and a nice autoloading cannon.

Anyone know that prototype to the left? Looks familiar but can't put my finger on it

Looking forward to part 2.

Ah ok, now I'm up to date for part 2 lol

That 105 looks SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much bigger in this video than in other videos and games.

Has that TTB been restored any further than before? Itd be amusing to get a full inside the hatch on that.

Question!... If trying to save 1 Rd... How fast is it to extract and recover a round, to change ammunition types??
Soldiers tend to fire the round to get the next... 'feck' the cost!

For some reason when I play Combat Mission, my MGS Strykers are always the first to be destroyed, or take a crew casualty.

I'm also surprised the engine is yellow. Seems like something they would normally take 5 meetings over a year to decide what 3 types of green to take to the next level of assessment.

Excellent as always. Have you ever done and M-113? Loved it when I drove it. so many variations.

The Chinese are pausing this video and taking hella screenshots lol 😂

@Chieftain

Why do you think they were not given to Ukraine, given that they are:
1) out of US service
2) Ukraine already uses the same ammo in Leopard 1s, and the same platform in M1126 and other Strykers?

Not sure why people like the look of the Stryker so much. It looks like a stopgap measure. Its a wheeled box with a cannon retrofitted onto it. And not in a good way. Too tall, too many design compromises to fit that gun. It looks ungainly instead of deadly. Too austere in the areas that matter and overly complicated in the hardest to reach and most important areas.

Apparently, the army decided to make what amounts to an LAV-3 with a slightly larger gun and missiles. So all that money spent to come to what amounts to an upgrade of the original system. Only took them nearly 20 years to get to that decision. I’m seriously wondering how long it’ll take for the M10 Booker to get so many adhoc upgrades it becomes “Abrams-Lite.”

One of the coolest looking vehicles of the post cold-war era.

Is it just me or is staring down the big muzzle to screen right a bit distracting? ;)

Fun fact about your, "Caterpillar engines are always painted yellow," comment, apparently some 3126's that came in International trucks were painted brown.

its a truck with a big gun, dumped after they finally worked out it was a waste of time....

Love the look you're giving the ziptie on the rear hatch before you pop it. Like you are deeply offended by its existence. How dare it be obstructing your exploration of the vehicles. 😂

It's the US Armor & Cavalry Collection on Fort Moore! I had the great misfortune of being there for bct a few months back, but one of the highlights was the tour they gave us of said collection. Beautiful space and a unique collection. Went there on family weekend and was blown away; had no idea I'd spent the previous two months training right down the road from one of the most prestigious armor collections in the entire world. Was literally across the highway at 192nd.

Fort Moore? Never heard of it…

i miss my stryker

thank you for your efforts once again.

Big Feckoff Cannon 😄

Love the cyberdyne reference

stupid question what was the AT vic he was referring to

This thing is incredibly complex - far more so than it appears at first glance.

Hey your looking good mr ! Note the number on the front MGS0001 , is that a cheat code get my ps3 out and fire up Metal gear solid ( this vehicle is all over MGS4 )

Hey your looking good mr ! Note the number on the front MGS0001 , is that a cheat code get my ps3 out and fire up Metal gear solid ( this vehicle is all over MGS4 )

No track tension?

So how do you load it if the loader is inoperable 🤔

I don't like this vehicle, there's no track tensioning system

Chieftain, the hatch on the front is an access hatch/storage bin, if I am remembering correctly.
I fielded the ICV's at FT Wainwright for C co 2-1 INF and then worked as a refit Mechanic when they came back from Iraq.
The ICV is not comfortable for the Dismounts, especially if you have a full squad. You can get 8 dismounts in the back, but it is a tight fit.

I'd love to see you do a video on the m1135 NBCRV. Or the fox NBCRV since it was replaced by the stryker for mounted CBRN recon.

Great video! Added clarifications and misc Stryker MGS facts ...
- MGS-0001 spent its field life as a training vehicle at the Infantry Center / Maneuver Center. It had a reputation as the most reliable MGS in the fleet.
- Fleet MGS actually came in three configurations -- reconfigured prototypes (like 0001) and two iterations of LRIP. Because the vehicle never went into full rate production they were never standardized, even after completing the "Dirty 66" operational test fixes and the 2016 reliability upgrade. As a result, the technical manuals had to account for all the fleet variations and were roughly 7,000 pages in total.
- That door behind the pizza door is the external power port.
- Most of the titanium on the vehicle is in the turret structure and hatches; your magnet doesn't stick to the side because that's MEXAS composite add on armor like the rest of the Stryker fleet.
- CPV = Commander's Panoramic Viewer
- The MGS met its operational requirements, even reliability (whether that requirement was right is an exercise for the reader), and gave excellent combat service with GDLS mechanics maintaining over 95% OR in combat. Organizational and personnel decisions, as well as not getting to the full complement due to the decision not to take it to full rate production, which kept it too small a density to be effectively sustained, had more to do with its middling reputation in garrison and training than capability or design.
- That's not to say it wasn't a maintenance challenge -- it was; replenisher, autoloader, and turret electronics being most of the problems, and it was particularly hard to troubleshoot the electronics. Could have been fixed with more time and investment, but was not.
- The decision to retire the vehicle was mostly due to projected future sustainment and upgrade costs. A large number of the electronic components were going obsolete and would have needed refresh, plus there was never aa DVH variant developed -- doing both would have been fairly expensive (thought not as expensive as developing the M10 as a like capability). Given other lethality additions to the Stryker fleet (CROW-Javelin, 30mm cannons, etc) it was deemed an acceptable risk to retire the MGS rather than either limp along or do the significant refresh that would be required to match the new DVHA1 variants.

Looking forward to Part II!