Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
a.) MRAPs are probably what Stryker should have been, given a bit of lateral thinking.
Some of the requirements for the primary IAV, the infantry carrier, were the ability to carry a fully equipped infantry squad, commonality of parts across the IAV variants as well as with other vehicles within the IBCT, some baseline survivability requirements, and the capability for intra-theater air transport via C130.

While there are many MRAP variants, I suspect that the ones that can carry a full infantry squad would start to bust your logistics/transportability constraints for the organization.

A Stryker vs. MRAP evaluation would need to be completed at the organizational and operational concept level.