Trumpeter 1/35 ASLAV-25

The only time the US Army used the LAV was during Desert Storm when a company's worth of them were borrowed from the Marine Corps. They were returned afterwards.

The US Army uses a larger version of a similar vehicle called the Stryker. You can't get  to a Stryker from an LAV kit.

The ASLAV is an Australian variant of the LAV, not even a US version.

Thanks rob, he was in the Stryker brigade out of fort Lewis Washington. Well I will just have to build it as a Aussie lav then. Thanks for the info on it, I appricate it.

How do you guys know all this stuff? Why do you guys know all this stuff?!

I was a tanker in the Army. Prior to and just after Desert Storm, the Army's last remaining Sheridan battalion was considering replacing the light tank with the LAV-25 but the decision was made not to do it for political reasons; the Marines wanted a monopoly on being the nation's medium weight force.

I was also in charge of the 2006 "test drive" for interim armored vehicles at Fort Knox (which was the home of armor back then). We checked out a couple dozen vehicles that we could buy off the shelf until the Strykers could be put into production.

While they appear similar, it would be like trying to make a 2010 Ford F-250 out of a 1980 Ford F-150.

Well, you were the right guy at the right time to help Catttech1 with his question! Pretty amazing. So you were at Fort Knox. I used to enjoy going to the Patton Museum to look at the tanks. They had a Tiger with cutaways so you could see inside. It was great. I showed up one day a number of years ago and almost everything was gone--sent down to Benning, I believe.

Yes, I live just south of Fort Knox in Elizabethtown. Just about every piece of armor from the museum and the ones scattered around post are gone with maybe a dozen common US armor pieces left at Fort Knox.

Cattech1

Do you know why they are moving everything out of there?

The US Army Armor School and its museum (the Patton Armor Museum) have been moved to Ft Benning, GA under BRAC to consolidate the Armor and Infantry Schools into the School of Maneuver.

Technically, it's the Armor and Cavalry museum that has moved and must be colocated with the Armor and Cavalry branch at Benning. The Patton Museum remains at Fort Knox and has aligned itself with the installation's Senior Mission Command, which is Cadet Command. Because of this, the museum is now known as the Patton Museum of Leadership. Half that museum is basically ROTC junk and the other half the Gen. Patton displays.

BarrettDuke,

I will never get to the point where I have the depth of knowledge that the very good modelers have.

I have asked a lot of questions since being back into this great hobby after a lot of years, and I have had a lot of help from a lot of good people.

Earl