Which parts fit on Iltis?

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak

Alex, thanks for your interest and support of the youngest CMP........ the Bombardier Iltis.......... perhaps you would like to buy one?

Cheers!
Stuart

Not really sure how the Iltis could claim that: the LSVW was built 9 years later and was also a canadianised European model, as was the HLVW (although less Canadianised, and unlike the Iltis and LSVW, is a success).

To me the Iltis and the LSVW represent the dark days of the 80s and 90s, where we were turned into an austere (read cheap) army that went into war like situations in soft skin B vehicles with little regard for the lives of the crew members in them, rather than some milestone in Canadian military production history.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak

Rob, thank you for the correction.........

How about the Iltis is the youngest CMP that is in the hands of collectors and that can be legally driven on the road.............?

Cheers!
Stuart

Or we could call it a MFP: Modified Foreign Pattern. Other than having been another overpriced cash cow for Bombardier, there was not a lot Canadian about them.

[chris vickery]

I agree whole-heartedly with you Rob...
It does speak volumes though about the tenacity (read toughness) of Canadian soldiers as a group. The world see the likes of Navy Seals, Green Berets, 101AB, USMC etc as the "elite", but one on one, the Canadian soldier is better able to overcome and adapt to what he/she is given to work with. History does not lie...