Re: [OT] The dangers of believing mass media "journalists" when they drool on themselves while pontificating on military affairs of which they are completely ignorant, was Re: The new US Army APC the "Stinger"
From: Ryan M Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:41:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [OT] The dangers of believing mass media "journalists" when they drool on themselves while pontificating on military affairs of which they are completely ignorant, was Re: The new US Army APC the "Stinger"
At 8:55 PM -0700 6/30/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>--- Scott Siebold <gamers@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>> I saw a broadcast on CNN about the new wheeled APC
>
>Do you really want my opinion on CNN's level of
>military expertise?
I work here and I'll agree with John here. The ex-Nato Commander
General Clark is good, but he's a Zoomie as I recall. I wish we had
John Ringo on our channel as a military commentator rather than him
being over on Fox.
>
>
>Stryker, actually. Gives some indication of the
>validity of your source.
Named for a heroic soldier as typical. Too Bad Sgt York didn't work
out. The guy deserves better. Likely the army is waiting for a real
CF of a system to name after Audie Murphy.
[snip]
>Abrams cost $3 mil? Try $4.3 million. And that's for
>the M1A1, not the A2 or the digitized version thereof.
> Source: FAS.
>
>I still havn't found a source for the Stryker's cost.
Janes probably has something...
Well their search engine doesn't find anything under Stryker. IAV
yeilds a short blurb on the program's total cost, $4 Billion. But
then we knew that from the above posting...
http://www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/news_briefs/jdw020228_02.shtml
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