Demonstrating that very little is truly new, the Stryker evolved from the light armoured vehicle (LAV), originally produced by General Motors Canada for the Canadian Army in the 1970s. The US Army actually considered using the LAV when the US decided to create the formal Rapid Deployment Force in 1979, but ultimately decided to stick with the tracked vehicles it had learned to trust in previous wars.

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