LAV SPOTTED!

[+SiN+ solo60]

Snapped these with my phone on sunday on the way to the dump. They would have been on their way back from Shoalwater Bay Training Ground that is north of Rockhampton (where i live).

was 4 or 5 trucks.. they had 2-3 apcs on each one. A few different varients with gun/tow..

http://users.on.net/matthewv/LAV1.jpg
http://users.on.net/matthewv/LAV2.jpg
http://users.on.net/matthewv/LAV3.jpg

[amagale]

cool..

[VisOne]

We have tow's ?

[Aresnik]

That's awesome

[CHARGER_76]

So the army's outsourced apc transport too i see.

[Chuc]

Enemy APC is inbound over!

[VisOne]

Would you want to be in transport corp that's a boring job my friend.

[segmentor]

Late last year (around the time CHOGM was held I think) I had a laugh as a couple of these passed the bus I was on on the Riverside Expressway in Brisbane. Of course they both felt the need to track the bus with their main cannons as they passed. Quality.

[CHARGER_76]

Look - they have spring suspension on the front 2 axles only, and shockies on the rear 2. Interesting.

[AintWarHeLL(hehe)]

Would you want to be in transport corp that's a boring job my friend.


but you are by yourself or maybe one other, it the slackest job you can do in the Army. :truckwee:


good photos, see the rudders at the props

[Bammo]

TOW's? That's something I didn't know we had on our ASLAV's.

BTW - there is a pretty big difference between a LAV (USMC) and an ASLAV (ADF). Although they share the same chassis they are quite different developments.

The ASLAV on the back of the truck in the first photo is a PC / mobile command centre - something we don't see in-game sadly.

[AncientMan]

Where are these TOW's you speak of? I can't see any TOW's on those pics...

Those things need a wash :P.

[AintWarHeLL(hehe)]

here (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b80_120592120 8) is a vid showing some these things at work in Iraq,

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b80_120592120 8

plus this short one Australian ASLAV Test Live Fire (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c2_118760609 7)

[+SiN+ solo60]

TOW's? That's something I didn't know we had on our ASLAV's.

BTW - there is a pretty big difference between a LAV (USMC) and an ASLAV (ADF). Although they share the same chassis they are quite different developments.

The ASLAV on the back of the truck in the first photo is a PC / mobile command centre - something we don't see in-game sadly.

i know its a aslav.. just put LAV as others would know what the thread is about.

i wish i had my dslr with me, and not towing a full trailer, i would have followed and got a snap of each varient.

definatly a TOW or some sort of laser/wire guided missle setup on one of them.

[+SiN+ solo60]

Variants

By using these MRIKs and the three different hull types of the ASLAV the Australian Army has at their disposal, the following variants have been developed:

* ASLAV-25 (Reconnaissance) - A three man reconnaissance vehicle armed with an M242 dual-feed 25 mm Bushmaster cannon and two 7.62 mm FN MAG 58 machine guns.

* ASLAV-PC (Personnel Carrier) - A two man vehicle armed with a .50 BMG M2 machine gun and capable of carrying 7 scout troops. The standard machine gun pintle mount is replaced by a KONGSBERG PROTECTOR remote weapon station (RWS) which can accommodate either a 12.7 mm machine gun or a Mk19 40 mm automatic grenade launcher.

* ASLAV-C (Command) - A vehicle equipped with enhanced radio installation and radio masts, mapboard, stowage compartments, appropriate seating and annex. Armed with a single .50 caliber BMG M2 machine gun.

* ASLAV-S (Surveillance) - A specialised surveillance vehicle equipped with thermal imager, laser range finder and day television camera. Armed with a single .50 BMG M2 machine gun.

* ASLAV-A (Ambulance) - Equipped with medical equipment and litter stations this ASLAV can carry three lying patients or six sitting patients. Armed with a single .50 BMG M2 machine gun.

* ASLAV-F (Fitter) - Maintenance support vehicle crewed by soldiers of the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) for the repair and maintenance of ASLAV vehicles. Armed with a single 7.62 FN MAG 58 machine gun.

* ASLAV-R (Recovery) - Maintenance support vehicle, also crewed by RAEME soldiers for recovering damaged or bogged vehicles. Armed with a single 7.62 FN MAG 58 machine gun.


it wasnt a tow fitout like this
http://www.gdlsaustralia.co m/images/product_photos/25mm_tow.jpg

it was on the pintle mount ontop of the main turrent.

im not sure it was a javelin mount either, but it closely resembled this
http://www.gdlsaustralia.co m/images/product_photos/rwsj.jpg




while trying to find the mount i found this and came a little in my pants
http://www.gdlsaustralia.co m/images/product_photos/105mgs_weaponsystems .jpg

[champsky]

good vid aintwar , great guys in a crap country

[+SiN+ solo60]

after doing some reading on remote weapons stations on aslavs.. it seems to indicate that the adf has aquired a number of javelins earlier in the year and some of them were destined for use with remote weapon stations (RWS) on apcs.

[AintWarHeLL(hehe)]

http://www.gdlsaustralia.co m/images/product_photos/105mgs_weaponsystems .jpg this looks nice

http://www.gdlsaustralia.co m/video_controller.asp ?ID=31

[Slavak]

A Slav? You called?

[+SiN+headhunter345]

Wicked..

[Kindros]

You should had tried to give them a drag race :) Nice shots, I always get shooed along by the police when I get my phone camera out in Newie. Mind you there are some different beasts which travel the highways round these parts.

[Rhodesy_77]

Holy s*** solo, you live in rocky? im in Yeppoon.... small world...

[Shotgun]

man your phone has a nice camera in it

[champsky]

kiwis have got 24 javelins currently in stock , be afraid , be very afraid

[+SiN+ solo60]

man your phone has a nice camera in it

its crappy as.. its 1.3 megapixel in an old nokia thing.

[GruAncH]

Still pretty clean, clear pic off a pho camera nice work.

[AllYourBase11]

kiwis have got 24 javelins currently in stock , be afraid , be very afraid

All aimed at the Wallaby training camps. (Not that you guys need them to beat us ATM lol)

[ChiefRyza]

http://www.gdlsaustralia.co m/images/product_photos/105mgs_weaponsystems .jpg this looks nice



I think thats a stryker variant dude, WE wont see it in PR though because thats a mobile 120mm howitzer im pretty sure....not the most balanced piece of equipment available to mankind....

[Captain_Wolf]

It so is. They could use it to compliment the under gunned Striker M2.

[ChiefRyza]

I wonder if they are gonna put a Mark-19 onto the stryker? that would be sweet, it would balance things out seeing as a Mark-19 does similar damage to that of a 20mm Cannon.

OR keep the CROWS m2 and have an open hatch Mark-19 = Ownage

[VisOne]

I'm pretty sure I have heard allot said by the DEV team about not putting Mark-19 in game because most of the other factions have nothing similar to it.

[ChiefRyza]

just saying on the stryker, not on humvees and everything. If it had a 180 degree sweep, meaning it couldnt aim backwards, that would make it fair.

[Ultimate_Dogg]

its crappy as.. its 1.3 megapixel in an old nokia thing.

:O
My phone doesn't have a camera and my old one had something like a 0.000000001 micropixel camera.

[thats_a_spicy_meatball]

nice pics

[Sgt.trip]

Would you want to be in transport corp that's a boring job my friend.

i have a cousin in the UK in the Transport Corp for the brit army.... he was on the news a while back last year cause when he took the semi up the turn pike to get onto the motorway the challanger II tank fell off and rolled down the embankment.....!


but he loves his job....

[Slavak]

...but he loves his job....

Loves or loved?

[AintWarHeLL(hehe)]

I saw a semi load of new Army trailers today heading north just south of Townsville today sorry no pic. :)

[AintWarHeLL(hehe)]

hay +SiN+ solo60 (http://www.bigdgaming.net/member.php?u=833) is this what you saw?
http://i238.photobucket.com /albums/ff136/paulwar_photos/airdefence.png

look at page 14/15 of defencenews (http://digital.realviewtech nologies.com/default.asp?xml=defe ncenews_army.xml)

[+SiN+ solo60]

it was close.. no ammo box or .50 was definatly a tube mounted on that sort of mount (with the optics)