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vagabond

Hello,

Thought you all might be interested in this XM-800W on display at the USAF Armament Museum @ Eglin AFB, FL.

vagabond · Last edited by vagabond on Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Batch #2 reloaded.

Still getting the hang of posting photos.

Cheers!

palic · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 172

Although sporting a bit funny camo this XM800 seems to be in a bit better shape than that one in Anniston. No Batch 2 pictures are visible but these pictures will increase Jiri Tintera's blood pressure! Brilliant and thanks!

Doug_Kibbey

This project went down at the Armor Board the year after I ETS'd, but from the specs and what I know, I believe the resouces were better spent on keeping M113 ACAV's in the field until the Brad's were sufficiently developed. The XM800 (IMHO) would have been an evolutionary dead-end that would have sapped resources better applied to a more capable tracked vehicle. I'll stop short of calling them "Wheeled Death Traps" ala you-know-who, but I'm convinced the Brad's were the way to go and the 800 series (wheeled or tracked) were already rendered obsolete before production by those funny aircraft that the wings turn around on.