Been wondering what the hell happened to that thing’s design and requisition path.

I know it was supposed to replace the troublesome Stryker MGS that has been decommissioned for a while. Feels like we have problems making truly “light” vehicles now because everything has to save the crew from a direct IED detonation, and survive at least 14.5mm fire 360 degrees, and have modern fire suppression and spall protection, and have climate control, and have a full sensor and optics suite, and in this case carry a fuckoff 105mm gun, and and and…

…but it still has to be light enough to not fuck up roads and bridges and have a C17 be able to carry three of them. The design goals are at odds. In this case they ended up with a very heavy vehicle for its class. Crew survivability is an excellent thing, but you can’t expect to make a light vehicle without compromise.