The highly successful LAV III (Light Armored Vehicle) | PRIME INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLE
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- The LAV III is the third generation of the Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) family of armored personnel carriers built by General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada (GDLS-C), a London, Ontario, based subsidiary of General Dynamics. It first entered service in 1999, succeeding the LAV II. It is the primary mechanized infantry vehicle of both the Canadian Army and the New Zealand Army. It also forms the basis of the Stryker vehicle used by the U.S. Army and other operators. The Canadian Army is upgrading its LAV IIIs to the LAV 6 standard. Early in its development history it was referred to as the 'Kodiak', but the name was never officially adopted.
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What is your favorite light armored vehicle? Let me know what it is and why! I am curious and maybe if I have done a video on it yet I will and do a shout out to you for sharing!
I’ll take the LAV6 which we are shipping to Ukraine.
It's basically a wheeled Bradley without all the bells and whistles, but can carry 9 soldiers instead of 6...
Lockheed *Xm808* because *speed is king* when Land is big and Force is small.📚
Jealous no invite
the south african Ratale is good enough gun without being ridiculous (see Stryker MGS!!) good protection and mobility and relatively easy to support logistically!!
Hello, I am the guy in the video,
In my nervousness when filming this video, I for some reason I called the Laser Warning system a camera. 6:32 It is a camera in some ways. The LWS is gives automatic warning against common battlefield laser threats and can be seen by the driver and commanders displays. The camera I meant to refer to are the cameras co-axial to the main gun, the drivers thermal imaging camera (para scope) and the gunners thermal camera. Thermals would also be mounted on the rare in later models.
I am embarrassed to make that mistake, but to be human is to make mistakes. Hope this clears it up!
@@deshawnd5543 you did great brother!! Thank you again!!
@@_Matsimus_can you do a video on the RCh 155 wheeled artillery system from Germany
You did great man dw ab it
Love the Ferret Armoured Car myself. I remember when one of the electronics shops at my work did a massive cable upgrade for the LAV.
Guy just up the road from me has one (ferret) , see him driving around in it occasionally.
LAV 3/6 are my second favorite. I was a CC in a LAV2 Bison in Afghanistan, just wished we had the C-8.
Not wheeled but we went over an IED in a Viking and everyone walked away with a headache, so I'm partial to her.
Thanks Mat and DeSean for the video.
Perfect timing, just graduated from USMC LAR school this morning
The vehicle at the end is a Staghound.
Thank you for taking the time to bring this to us 🎉
LAV-AD ftw, 25mm GAU-12U fucks, Stingers and Hydras hit shit hard
Big step up from the AVGP Grizzly that we had in 1 VP in Calgary back in the day. From a kitten to a tiger.
Pretty sure I can change AVGP struts in my sleep😂
@@glenarmy1 hehehe I probably messed our boat up once or twice.
@@Johnny84mm-sn4gj Strats showed me on a road test you could jump a 17 ton boat like a dirt bike with the right guy behind the wheel……just don’t hit the brakes whilst airborne……saw the results of that too.
Agreed. Whole lot nicer piece of kit than the Cougars we had with VIII CH here in NB as well.
The guy giving the presentation with you is amazing! Great talker and totally educated on the vehicle. Really cool video!!❤👍🏻👊🏻🤘🏻
My guess for the vehicle at the end is a Staghound
I think so too!
More specifically, the T17E1 Staghound, with the 37-mm M6 cannon.
@@speedythree Uh....yeah
The ACV that the US MARINE CORP is working with looks like the perfect ride for me.
An IFV that is capable of being launched directly from the ship in the open sea is really cool to see.
The armoured car at the end is a Chevrolet T17E1, an armoured reconnaisance vehicle. It was the precursor to the Ferret in British service.
Patria AMV 8×8. It just looks so cool. The crews appreciate the comfort: a spacious interior, AC & heating, mine resistance: a 10kg mine just destroys a wheel, the vehicle and the crew can carry on.
Finland, Poland and Sweden among others rely on variants of the Patria AMV 6×6 & Patria AMV 8x8 AMV APCs.
I have a nostalgic love for the M-8 Greyhound, the M-20 version is cool too.
Currently the Centauro B1, as I'm researching it. Otherwise the Fox armoured car, and the Ferret 2/1 as my dad drove one in part of his military stint.
The AC at the end is a T17E1 Staghound of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons. The only unit to be completely equiped with them, otherwise they were used as command vehicles in Commonwealth reconnaissance units.
I'd love for you to start doing a series on future tech plans for the CAF , Navy and RCAF. Potentially even a " what we should be looking at " like a helicopter carrier.
More than one, with F-35B facilities. Makes more sense than buying F-35A and spending Billions to expand and modernize all of our airbases.
Matt that would be a ferret I had the joy of riding in one a long time ago. Excellent video
Made in my hometown and years ago my Uncle who worked there took thru the plant and actually sat in on a test ride thou that was LAV I.
💯♥️ I played the living shit out of the first game demo. Tribes in my heart.Thank you so much for this video.
Glad to see you are still ''serviceable''. In hope & trust you are taking care of yourself.
The LAV with the latest improvements, it would be even better if they up-gunned to 35mm or 40mm (NEXTER: cased telescoped ammunition)
which is both compact (overall size, shell and propellant contained within casing) and virtually jam-proof (feed).
The anti-drone role is going to become fairly ubiquitous in all theatres from this point on, so the larger slugs with proximity fuses would be dandy!
Larger slug hits harder from greater range (usually). So, a win win. Be well and stay safe
Maybe under a Conservative Government
@@claymclaren5788 Oh you naive soul.
No not so Naive. Conservatives generally spend more on defence than the Liberals. Also I said maybe. Personally I would be more interested in seeing the SGT. Stout package be brought to LAV6 along with L-SHORAD if they can it figured out. Maybe even the Microwave based Directed Energy system that the UK just got up and running for Drone defence.
@@claymclaren5788 Not true in the slightest. The last thing Stephen Harper did was cancel the procurement of the F-35. Conservatives hold the same contempt for the military as any other party. I guess they pretend to care when its election season to get votes from naive people like you and then go about doing the same shit any other party has done.
One word Ferret. There are no other words.
LAV and CV90 (tracked) are my favorites, they are modern and super capable, and built for the crew in mind. It would be really cool to see them work side by side
The LAV series of vehicles have long been my favorite just because I grew up seeing them (LAV-25's?) all over Camp Lejeune growing up.
Favorite LAV 600, affordable adaptable and lethal
Nice Foxhound leading the LAV.
Cool to see the LAV - we have them in the NZ Army. I'd love to see more on the Staghound that lurking in the background, and then firing at the end. NZ used them in Italy in WW2. Cheers from NZ 😉
I really enjoyed operating this platform
Hey Mat, I'm really enjoying the new videos. As for light armor vehicles; I have a fascination with the German Half Track of WWII. 👍
Thanks mate!
Always have a fondness for the LAV series and thought when the USMC ordered them that the wheeled IFV era had returned.
Oh the vehicle at the end must be a Staghound by the shape of the turret.
Since your doing the LAV 3, what about doing an updated video on the Boxer as that project has significantly advanced in the last few years since you covered it?
The LAV-AT. A LAV with the hammer head launcher on it. The other version that is interesting is the LAV with a 20mm VADS turret.
I believe it's a staghound. We had them in Australia as well. We also had the same version of the LAV as the US Marines but with upgraded turrets and an APC version.
I am so jealous of your lack of mosquitos in Canada. I hope you guys had a blast.
Lack of a mosquitos is definitely not the case across the whole country. They can get extremely bad in some areas during the summer time, but thankfully no place lets them survive in the winter months here, haha.
A wonderful and tested platform
Love this ep, London pretty close
I was pondering this over, seems to me, they also could repurpose some of the defunct Leopard 1 turrets
and slap them atop a LAV as a fire support vehicle, the chassis on the old Leo 1s are pretty much gonzo
so it could be a nice addition to anyone having to face bad guys. A 105 mm gun is not so great against MBTs
head to head, it remains fairly good on flanking/rear ambush shots. Works just fine against everything other
kind of targets (vehicles & fortifications) from virtually any angle, the operating tech can be updated as needed.
Cannot think of any sized infantry formation complaining about having more punch than a 25mm gun, moving
at the same pace but, generating less noise than a Leo 2. I think this might be a future fav.
I think that the LAV has been tested with the 120mm smoothbore.
Ireally like the Patria 6x6 or Sisu Pasi XA-180.
There is just something about those.
LAVs are great too
Is that a Humber at the end?
Great video!
The mighty ASLAV..... Australian version of the LAV-25!!!
I really like the Pandur 2 from Czech Republic. It looks cool and mounts a very potent Samson rcws30.
It was the best LAV, sometimes more is not better.
I love the german Boxxer and TPz Fuchs.
My first thought on the vehicle at the end is Staghound but I'm not sure.
Think it's the fox recon car I think max keeps going on excellent information 👍👍
The lil-armored car looks like a Ferret, with a up-dated turret. Guessing the caliber of the gun, 35 or 37mm. My first time observing and getting a close look at the USMC issue LAV-25, was in 1986, at Infantry Training School, outer camp San Onofre, Camp Pendelton. The back end compartment, they said you could hold 4 grunts, with gear. When I looked inside I felt like that was optimistic. By the way. I wish you had sat down in that back compartment. I'm only 5'9" and when I sat in the back, I had my knees in my chest. One good bump while on the move, and they be slammed in to my jaw!. They was one event at San Onofre beach, where they had a LVPT-7 (now the AAV), and a LAV-25 coming ashore, side by side. The LVPT is a tracked vehicle. It came ashore, over the sand, no sweat. The LAV, no go. It got hung up, on a berm between the wet and dry sand. The LVPT, had to tow it out. Embarrassing! Although, they could shoot on the move and make the hits.
the Armoured car at the end is a Staghound 🤓👆
i like the AML family, it's been everywhere and does almost everything
the AMX-10 RC is also really cool
These are so cool :)
We need the whole LAV collection in war thunder.
CHIMO! Your awesome Sgt! Btw is that Oshawa by any chance!?
It is :-)
Oh right, the FOX armoured car was one of a number of models produced here during WW II, that one appears to have a 37mm/2 pounder gun, the other models had MGs as a rule
Love to hear your thoughts on battles ... start with operations Medusa ... lots of blue on blue. Controversial.. but we are couch generals at this point ...
We only learn from our experiences...
Good and bad .
The vehicle at the end is a Staghound I think. To many WW2 games :) As to light Armored vehicles I don't have much experience I rode in a LAV 25 and AAVs while in the USMC but as I was infantry, I was just a passenger.
mine (with wheels) is the Véhicule Blindé Léger or VBL there was a infantry unit in the brigade i was part of the 24th armoured brigade and they had those i was so excited when i saw them , they looked so alien to me . but since we didnt have any in my artillery unit i kept watching and adimiring them Edit: i dont know what that ww2 V was
Boom! boom! truck!
The Ratel
I like the rooikat and g6 👍
I really like the LAV-3, but I'm also an old soul. I really like the US Army halftrack from WW2, and also the British Warrior.
Ah yes the Laviii or in America the Stryker. Right now I like the LavIV
I figured that you being Canadian, this video would have put out sooner.
In World War 2, conventional guns had a penetration of 1.7 .. 1.6 of the caliber. Howitzers of 0.9 caliber. The cumulatives grew from 1, then 1.2 caliber, to 1.33 caliber. The weak Sherman and T34 guns are similar to 1,2 and 1,33. According to the American calculation method, Panther and Ferdinand had 2.5 penetration from the caliber, and their subcalibers3.5. (rifled barrels). Well, based on this, protection from a large-caliber machine gun and a small-caliber automatic anti-aircraft gun should be taken 2 times of steel. If it is lined with uranium and tungsten, it is better to take about 3.5 calibers for the thickness of the armor. (The armor of Bradley's forehead or the sides of the Abrams tower). For explosive protection of cubes on a tank, you need about 30mm, the same for an explosion of 10 meters of a 155mm projectile. 50mm is guaranteed to protect from an explosion a couple of meters from the armor of a 155mm projectile. 80mm should protect against a direct hit by a high-explosive projectile. The forehead of the MBT tanks should hold from 500mm to 900mm cumulative. For the forehead of the body, there is usually from 400mm to 600mm of space between the front and the driver, this place will be less protected. For the forehead of the tower, there is usually from 600mm to 800mm of space between the front and the gunner. This place will be better protected. Well, it's difficult to increase the space, it's easier to change metal and plastic for uranium and tungsten, or another heavier alloy and composition. More expensive, rare and heavy. But it's easier with size retention. This is the end of 20th century logic.
In modern tanks, you need a second engine and a second smaller fuel tank. Or an emergency parking engine can be added to this. (like a handbrake, but for short-term movement). You need two main ammunition stoves in the stern of the tower and next to the driver and a few small spare ones in other places. It is necessary to be able to transport soldiers and food with medicines instead of ammunition. Without shells.
while i love the LAV 6, i wish they had of canceled the upgrade and went with the cv90 instead of canceling it.
There’s a reason they nicknamed this the Kodiak
Well, I don't have an actual favourite wheeled vehicle, but an type that I would like would be something that for example would be an Stryker, lightly armored and fast, but with suspensions and modification kit that would transform this vehicle in something like an Eitan (pretty well armored) or boxer (modular and can use an 35mm cannon) or an centauro (armed with an 120mm gun), in resume is: an light apc (with the Stryker armor and .50 cal), something like 19-22 tons, but with an suspension that can hold up to 35-40 tons, being this extra weight used on something like extra armor, or an bigger armament, like an 105 or 120 mm guns (yes, I would like an apc that can be modeled to be something like an striker, Eitan or an centauro, and yes, I would like something like that for an tracked apc, with the only difference being extra armor)
My favorite is the cougar light armored vehicle,for its car house joke
set video speed to 1.75 then the drums from the intro sound much better
VBCI PHILOCTETE
40mm, akeron mmp, standard 7.62 and 8 infantryman
Any Active Protection System for the LAV to defend from drones?
Let's not beat around the bush. We all know the Ilts was the greatest fighting vehicle the CAF ever fielded.
Sarcasm?
Vehicle at the end is a Staghound armored car. Took longer to identify than I'd care to admit lol. Scouts Out!
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Thank you for sharing this. Fantastic presentation
Question... Is it two or four wheeled steering?
You mentioned top hatch being snug, imagine if you had body armor on
Now, make a version with a 120mm mortor to add some fire suppirt abilities!
They did it’s called the LAV-m
@@critterjon4061 no, one with the nemo mortor.
My favorite LAW is Patria AMVxp😊 and i think the last one was Fox/Ferret😅
I think that is a Stag Hound armored car from WW2.
Hey Mat, can you explain generally the close relationship between the US Navy and Marine Corps?
Warrior. Arma 2 vibes.is it a ferret?
What was the ammo info for the machine gun? What does it mean?
Are the optics like a tank like Abram’s?
Love the Stryker with the Bushmaster chain gun, Ima civilian so I don’t know what series sorry but THANK YOU FOR SACRIFICE TO ALL THE VETERANS especially our TRIPLE C’s ( CRAZY CANADIAN COUSINS) ………LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!
Stryker is LAV3 I think.
no idea, but i think WT called it an M8 somethinghound or other.
Stag Hound. T-17 if i remember right. US Armored we picked not to use.
PS; Sorry, the question was what was my favorite light armored vehicle. (?) Likely the LVPT-7, that got me and my guys ashore. Sad truth, after coming ashore we would get transferred to trucks, half a platoon at a time, transferred to hummves a squad at a time, or we put one foot after another to reach our objective. Personally, to hell with all of that! Get on a Sea Stallion and get there ASAP! Some how, while flying, we never got lost!
Do armour officers get to drive/ride in those?
What!? 😲
12 still shoots ....
M8 greyhound
anyone else watch videos like this and go jump into a game of warthunder.
Its a T17 stag hound
ah yes the LAV3/6. between the light armor, precise weapons (the 25mm bushmaster is a freaking laser beam compared to the russian autocannons), good thermal sensors and relatively high road speed / fuel efficiency compared to tracked vehicles, the LAVs were uniquely suited to bully insurgents. will be interesting to see how it does in LSCO scenario coming up.
LAV III is similar with Mowag Piranha III. In Europe we have now Mowag Piranha V, do you think it will be accepted also by the Canadians?
Its not similar. It IS a piranha III. Licence build from Mowag
In Canada, 616 existing LAV III’s have been reworked into the LAV 6.0, with the weight of the vehicle going up from just under 17 tonnes to 28.6 tonnes (with additional armour, a more powerful engine and beefed-up suspensions.) Newly-produced, turret-less LAV 6.0’s (some with remote weapons stations) are being produced as the Armoured Combat Support Vehicle.
@@speedythreeI believe the turret is almost entirely different on the LAV 6 series too
Looks like a T17 Staghound at the end of the video! I played that ugly looking thing alot in bf5…
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The LAV's are a good platform as long as they are used properly. They are not a front line combat vehicle, never will be, look at what happened to them in Afghanistan against a foe without armor or an air force
Harper should have gone with the cv90 back on 08, I think the program was called close combat vehicle
Agreed, but LAV6 is the culmination of knowledge gained in Afghanistan. It would not suffer like previous generations did.
@@claymclaren5788 That's fantastic and if they ever have to go up against an enemy without armor, artillery or an air force they should be ok. There isn't a serious military in the world that is using apc's as ifv's
Fair assessment and I dont disagree, but sadly those decisions are left to politicians and not the taxpayers or the military themselves. If Canadian Taxpayers had a say in how much the military is funded I believe that our military would look much different. That said if we can't repair and refit our own equipment there is a problem. Just look at the case of the Leopard 2, we are down to around 30 since Afghanistan because we can't take proper care of them for one reason or another. I feel as though the CAF should have a force structure similar to that or the US Marine Corps. They have eliminated the MBT and gone to the M10 Booker. It may be a reasonable decision to make. Canada hasn't been a bigger player militarily since WWII and we have lost most of our industrial capacity to support a high-end military force in the decades since for numerous reasons, but because of that we should focus on capabilities and technology/equipment that we can support without having to rely on foreign suppliers. It's one of the reasons I disagree with the Governments decision to buy the F-35 and the Type 26. Tethering your countries military to foreign countries is a bad idea. Pretty sure George Washington said something similar.
@@claymclaren5788 Yes the Canadian army doesn't believe in a heavy 65ton mbt, they got the Leo2's because they needed something and they were available. According to GAO reports the US is struggling to maintain their F35 fleet which is running a little over 50% fully mission capable, CA won't have a chance of keeping that fleet in the air. The River will go down as the biggest disaster in the history of Cdn military procurement it's already pushing $100bill for 15 ships all made by a shipyard that can't make a patrol ship, after Irving heard the $100bill for 12 diesel subs I wouldn't be surprised if that price is going to go even higher. You're right, politics is playing too big a part in the decision making process and unfortunately I don't think the conservatives are going to fix any of this, if they have a plan to they aren't sharing it. Thanks
why are none these in UKR?
They are. The UKR calls them the Super Bison, I believe because our first gen LAVs were called the Bison.
Is it too based to say the EFV is my favorite light armored vehicle?
Switz designed ."Pirahna ".
@@andrzejkapera1130 wrong
Battlefield 3 vibes.
Love your content but disagree with your comments on the lav 3 wish i could discuss this with you. I served in 1 RCR back in the day. Cv 90 was and is a better vehicle and we would be better off with cv90 120 than the blessed leopards 2
No disagreement here.
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Why haven’t the RCA not mounted the 30mm and atgm of the 6.0 yet!?
I think the 30mm comes standard on LAV 6 and as far as I know most of our LAV3's are being upgraded to LAV 6 standard