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Don't know what this is, but I want one.
That looks a lot like a FAV fast attack vehicle used by SEALs and could carry a tow missile...
I want one too
!
As one who grew up on the
RAT Patrol
show
:
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The original tests used commercial
dune buggies
modified to carry weapons such as
TOW missiles
and
recoilless rifles
. The recoilless rifles still had enough recoil to flip the lightweight dune buggies and were abandoned. The TOW missiles had much greater success, but they violated existing Army TOW doctrine.
The Army had determined that a TOW needed a 3-man team to operate it. The DPVs could only carry a two-man crew and they seemed perfectly capable of operating the TOW, but this would have meant revising Army doctrine and possibly changing TOW deployment throughout the Army.
Fort Benning
decided to offer a "superior" DPV design that allowed a third crewman. This design was rejected by the HTLD team and was never produced.
The basic weapons on a DPV consist of a heavy
.50 caliber
M2 Browning
machine gun, two lighter
7.62×51mm
M60 machine guns
, and two
M136 AT4
anti-armor weapons. In some cases, the driver's M60 or the gunner's M2 is replaced with a
40 mm
Mk 19 grenade launcher
. Other
light machine guns
such as the
M240 machine gun
or
5.56×45mm
M249 SAW
can also be mounted.
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