stryker

plural strykers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Stryker (emergency stretcher).

plural Strykers

1. A surname

plural Strykers

1. emergency medicineA modern, heavy-duty, full-featured gurney, typically heavily padded and having yellow legs.

   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.

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

   2007, Helmut Strasser, Assessment of the ergonomic quality of hand-held tools and computer input devices, page 269

   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

   2007, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land, page 463

2. governmentAn eight-wheeled armoured combat vehicle used by the US Army.

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

   2005, Daniel Gonzales, Network-centric operations case study: the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, page 31

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   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.

   2002 July, “Wheeled tanks start rolling”, in Popular Mechanics, page 32

   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.

   2002, “Interim force armour activities”, in Armed Forces journal international, volume 139

   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.

   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.

   2011, Gordon Rottman, Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns, page 69