New Stryker vehicles arrive at Fort Carson

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New Stryker vehicles arrive at Fort Carson
By Tom Roeder Updated: February 7, 2014 at 5:17 pm • Published: February 7, 2014 | 5:10 pm

Looking for a good vehicle to take on Colorado's snow?

Fort Carson just got a fleet of them - eight-wheeled drive monsters that can pound through drifts and grind their 18-tons over ice.

It's a good thing, when the 88 new Stryker combat vehicles arrived at the post Friday morning, they had to be driven from railcars onto packed powder.

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While Strykers have been in the Army's inventory since the late 1990s, the ones that came to Colorado Springs Friday are of a new design. The latest generation of the Stryker includes improved armor with a V-shaped hull that deflects landmine and bomb blasts.