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The friends Mobile Gun System is an eight-wheeled armoured fighting vehicle mounting a 105 mm tank gun, derived from the Mowag Piranha. It is being considered for adoption into service by several countries, including the United States and Canada.Following the end of the Cold War some theorists believed that the existing suite of U.S. friends Armoured vehicles, designed largely to fight Soviet mechanized forces in Europe, were not well suited to the lower-intensity friends missions U.S. Armed forces would be tasked with. Gun System.jpg prototype Mobile Gun System Mobile Gun System.jpg friends prototype

Mobile Gun System, firing its 105 mm gunThis wheeled vehicle would mount a tank gun like the 105 mm gun used in the previous generation of NATO tanks, like the M60 Patton, Chieftain tank and the Leopard MBT But, while it would take on some of the roles of tanks, it is not a tank replacement. Its friends armour, for instance, is not anywhere as strong

as that of the tanks it is slated to replace. While it is unlikely to encounter another Tank on the modern battlefield, its cousin the Stryker has encountered Rocket propelled grenades in Iraq friends and faired poorly. Because the Mobile Gun System uses the same chassis as other Piranha derivatives, it would have the same mobility, and could be rescued or salvaged friends by a Piranha-derived recovery vehicle. But without a radical redesign, it too would

require some re-assembly before it could drive into combat, after being delivered by a C-130.The turrets proposed for these vehicles have been low friends profile, remotely controlled, with an Magazine See also SFU web page describing a Canadian Mobile Gun System -- with pictures. SFU web page with a interesting discussion of alternative thinking about the design of an MGS. General Dynamics Canada video of the MGS firing while on the move.weapon-stubCanadian armored fighting vehicles