Meaning of stryker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of Stryker (emergency stretcher).
   alt-of, alternative
2. A surname
3. A modern, heavy-duty, full-featured gurney, typically heavily padded and having yellow legs.
4. An eight-wheeled armoured combat vehicle used by the US Army.

Examples

“1973, Modern hospital: Volume 120; Volume 120, link Because we feel that a stretcher should be more than a means of patient transport, we don't offer a standard Stryker stretcher.”

“The handles on the Stryker stretcher can by extended after a locking button has been pressed”

“Of course—anyone would expect the rest to happen—I wake up in the Sea-Clift EMS track, strapped to a yellow Stryker stretcher, shirtless and jacketless, covered with a thin pink blanket, my feet toward the back door”

“The Army has named its 8-wheeled Light Armored Vehicle III the Stryker. The Army will field its first Stryker variant, an infantry combat vehicle, at Anniston, Ala.”

“The vast majority of Interim Force activities are swirling around the “Stryker” Interim Armored Vehicle (IAV) family from the General Motors–GDLS Defense Group joint venture. The IAV is a heavier, more modern version of the eight-wheeled Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) III from GM of Canada that is used by the Marine Corps and Canadian forces.”

“2004, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Operational Test Design and Evaluation of the Interim Armored Vehicle, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Improved operational testing and evaluation: and methods of combining test information for the Stryker family of vehicles and related Army systems, link Test Process The Army's interim armored combat vehicle, now called the Stryker, is in the latter stages of development.”

“The lower tactical Internet connects 75 percent or more of Stryker combat vehicles.”

“These and most variants of the eight-wheel Stryker combat vehicles have a .50-cal on a remotely controlled mount. Due to the improvised explosive device (IED) and sniper threat, these vehicles' weapons stations are heavily armored.”

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