Army Pressing Case For Significantly Larger Stryker Fleet

By Jason Sherman / April 4, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Army is laying plans for a significant expansion of its Stryker vehicle fleet as part of a wider combat wheeled vehicle strategy that is still in development in a bid to add as many as 2,000 of the eight-wheeled combat vehicles to the Pentagon's six-year acquisition plan, according to sources and documents. In a March 19 memo to the Army asking for a pair of tactical wheeled vehicle studies to be consolidated, Roberto Rodriguez, director of the Pentagon comptroller's...

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