AFV Club AF35370 M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System 1:35

The M1128 Mobile Gun System (MGS) is an eight-wheeled assault gun of the Stryker family, mounting a 105 mm tank gun, based on the Canadian LAV III light-armored vehicle manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems for the U.S. Army. The MGS program emerged after the 1996 cancelation of the Army’s M8 Armored Gun System, the service’s planned replacement for the M551 Sheridan light tank. The MGS was procured in limited numbers. It will be retired by the end of 2022 due to design and operational deficiencies Following the end of the Cold War some theorists believed that the existing suite of U.S. armored vehicles, designed largely to fight Soviet mechanized forces in Europe, were not well suited to the lower-intensity missions U.S. military would be tasked with.[citation needed] This led to the development of a new armored fighting vehicle designed for lower-intensity combat, rather than large-scale battle. By 1992, the Armored Gun System emerged as a top priority procurement progra