What does IAV stand for?

According to the Stryker Interim Armored Vehicle Operational Mode Summary/Mission Profile (IAV OMS/MP) (Training and Doctrine Command, 2000b), the Stryker planned mission profile called for operations on hard roads 20 percent of the time, and cross-country operations 80 percent of the time.

But comments by senior officials and industry experts in recent months suggest that the services will be in no rush to commit to a new vehicle design after having spent billions of dollars on the interim armored vehicles.

The 15 graduates received a new additional skill identifier, R4, Interim Armored Vehicle Mechanic.

Selection and delivery of the interim armored vehicle (IAV) is a future event.

The systems will be installed on the family of M1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks, Stryker Interim Armored Vehicles, Light-Armored Vehicles (LAV) and M113 Armored Personnel Carriers.

A unique organizational design feature is the use of the Stryker interim armored vehicle (IAV) as the common platform chassis not only for the infantry carriers but also for the mobile gun system, mortar, RSTA scout, anti-armor, engineer mobility, command and control, and nuclear-biological-chemical reconnaissance vehicles.

6 lbs Range: 1,100 m Rate of fire: 200-600 rounds per minute [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] M-252 Mortar Type: 81mm mortar Entered Army service: 1987 Specifications: Caliber: 81 mm Barrel length: 4 ft 6 in Weight: 91 lbs Range: 5,600 m Rate of fire: 15 rounds/min sustained [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stryker Type: Interim armored vehicle Entered Army service: 2001 Variants in service: Infantry carrier, engineeer vehicle, command-and-conrol vehicle Specifications: (ICV) Length: 22 ft 9 in Weight: 36,240 lbs Range: 312 miles [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] M-1097 AVENGER Type: Self-propelled anti-aircraft system Entered Army service: 1989 Weapons: 8 Stinger missiles, 1 .

The data acquisition systems installed in the loaned vehicles at Fort Lewis and embedded in the Army's Interim Armored Vehicle will help the Army fine-tune the type of testing the Stryker and other systems are to undergo at Aberdeen and elsewhere, said Craig Turner, who leads ATC's automotive instrumentation team.