The Crusader is very much needed in today's armored forces. He claims it is a "cold-war era weapon." Cough bull cough. It was designed using lessons learned from the desert storm conflict etc. It is a very good weapons platform. One weapons platform that should be tossed in the GARBAGE is the LAV.

You missed the point of the need for Sgt York ( a take off the ZSU-23) What is the requirement when the US has complete air superiority! The Pentagon may not have thought so when they dreamed this one up . The York's crowning moment was when the system shot up the toilets after the doppler radar locked up on fan rotation with the Sec. of Defence Weinberg watching the demonstration. One could write an amusing book about the contractor boondoggles that have cost the US military Billions (from what I have witnessed) for non functional so called tactical SIGINT equipment and computer systems (ASAS). These cunning S&P 500 military contractors have maintained this lucrative welfare through the hiring of former military who have worked on these long term projects some going back to 1977. The most important project force multipler is of course political patronage. A successful politician has never seen a dysfunctional military project in his/her district.

Anybody know how many Sgt York weapon systems were produced? I think I found one.. and was quite surprized.. Nobody even knows when or how it got here.

I thought that Sergant York exists as the Tungasta platform in Russia.

There are other ways to utilize the Sergant York besides shooting down aircraft when you are fighting the insurgency, you can check a better radar into it, to allow it shoot down or attempt to brind down incoming motar or artillery rounds, or do as the Arab states did when fighting against their "erhem" brothers PLO. Use the auto cannos to straff at insurgents, espeacially snipers. Other or all kinds of ground targets are also suitable. See you do not need to reinvent the wheel to put a 105mm gun on the striker etc..  And I know the US has some M113s with M61 vulcan gatlings, which could also be deployed. However having larger caliber munitions like 30 or 40mm gives you more versatility in the kind of ammo you can fire at the enemy. At the same time, it gives you more versatility when the targets are too close to civilians to use a large 120mm cannon munition but a 30 or 40mm might be enough to do the job. And when a whole lot of bad guys appear? You still have the full auto option to give saturated fire.

I thought that Sergant York exists as the Tungasta platform in Russia.

There are other ways to utilize the Sergant York besides shooting down aircraft when you are fighting the insurgency, you can check a better radar into it, to allow it shoot down or attempt to brind down incoming motar or artillery rounds, or do as the Arab states did when fighting against their "erhem" brothers PLO. Use the auto cannos to straff at insurgents, espeacially snipers. Other or all kinds of ground targets are also suitable. See you do not need to reinvent the wheel to put a 105mm gun on the striker etc..  And I know the US has some M113s with M61 vulcan gatlings, which could also be deployed. However having larger caliber munitions like 30 or 40mm gives you more versatility in the kind of ammo you can fire at the enemy. At the same time, it gives you more versatility when the targets are too close to civilians to use a large 120mm cannon munition but a 30 or 40mm might be enough to do the job. And when a whole lot of bad guys appear? You still have the full auto option to give saturated fire.