M10 Booker cancelation

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the trick is getting it to survive the landing!

As we learned from this thread, the Stryker suspension is fragile - the rear suspension can be damaged simply by lifting the front end:

Question about possibility of recovery stryker icv

Negative, Ghost Rider.There’s a reason you can’t find any photos. They likely don’t exist.You can pull a Stryker by the front lugs, but towing by lifting is the front end is definitely a no-no. You could do it in an emergency situation, but lifting the front end will damage the rear suspension units. There’s a special system for it (which I happened to have photographed at Fort Sill) for recovering the Stryker - the Stryker Modular Catastrophic Recovery System .

I took the Air Force Load Planner’s Course at Buckley in 2006. Certain variants of the Stryker could conceivably even be dropped from a C-130. But would the suspension hold up? Not recommended.
Possibly if you wedged honeycomb pads between the hull and the pallet. Of course we could try LAPES on it, That might be fun as well,