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Combat-Proven Stryker Vehicles Turn 10

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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt It has been a decade today since the Army issued its first, $4 billion, six-year requirements contract to equip as many as six brigade combat teams with a family of Interim Armored Vehicles (IAV)--2,131 vehicles. As of Sept. 1, 2010, General Dynamics [GD] has delivered 3,420 new Stryker vehicles of a planned total Army program of 3,983. The vehicles have accumulated 25 million miles. General Dynamics has trained 19,000 soldiers, and field service representatives are embedded with…

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