Talk:M8 Greyhound

Current Use

The M8 greyhound has been seen in a few sporting events in the U.S., Europe, and South America as additional riot security and as half time floats for local collage games. Here are a few links...

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ujH5FS9xA&feature=related -http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05Ge1tf3tcgd1/610x.jpg

Not sure weather this should be mentioned, but I find it interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.201.33.16 (talk) 07:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Modifications

Did any country tried to modify this vehicle, with better weapon, such as a 5 cm PaK 38 , a better motor,better armour,etc.?Agre22 (talk) 22:48, 20 September 2008 (UTC)agre22

Halo Wars: UNSC Cougar

[1] It's obviously based on the M8 Greyhound. It's just too similar to pass off as a coincidence. --Arima (talk) 03:53, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

The name "Greyhound"

The name was chosen as it was part of the British Ministry of Supply naming convention, not necessarily because of its light armour and high speed. In fact for an armoured car its speed wasn't anything out-of-the ordinary, and for an armoured car in the British mould its armour was not particularly deficient.

All vehicles supplied under lend-lease had names from the following groups;

tanks after US Civil War generals;

Self-propelled artillery after clerical titles (Priest, Sexton, etc);

Armoured cares after breed of Hound.

In the Commonwealth armies armoured cars were used for the tradional light-cavalry role of scouting and reconnaisance, hence the "Hound". Screening tended to be carried out by other types of units, usually using light tanks such as the Stuart. This is one of the reasons British-designed armoured cars tended to sit higher off the ground and looked a little "boxy" or top-heavy; they offered the crew a greater horizon thus longer observation distance. This was preferred even at the expense of stealth.

~~Andy Loates: 08 March 2010 ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.167.140.135 (talk) 15:12, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

This is one of the reasons British-designed armoured cars tended to sit higher off the ground and looked a little "boxy" or top-heavy - British armoured cars in the early pre-war period and thereafter were designed to the 'Wheeled Tank' principle, and carried the same armament (usually a 2 pdr AT gun - later 6 pdr) as contemporary Cruiser tanks. As-such, they were much more heavily armoured than vehicles of other nations, as although designed for reconnaissance they were intended to be able to survive against enemy armoured vehicles in the same way as a Cruiser tank. This is also why the Staghound, Deerhound and Boarhound were also much more heavily armoured than then-contemporary other US armoured cars (such as the M8 and M3 Scout Car) as they were designed at the request of the British.

Later post-war types of vehicles also conforming to the 'Wheeled Tank' principle are the Ferret armoured car and the later six-wheeled Saladin. These 'Wheeled Tanks' were in-effect, purpose-designed AFVs, whereas the earlier 'armoured cars' (such as the Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, Lanchester Armoured Car and similar), were conversions of ordinary civilian chassis. The other differences are that the 'Wheeled Tank' was generally of unit construction (no separate chassis) and had the engine at the rear. Examples of these are the Daimler Dingo, the Daimler Armoured Car and the Humber Armoured Car. An example of the other 'non-Wheeled Tank' wartime type would be the early variants (Mk I-Mk III) of the Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car, which were based on a commercial vehicle chassis. The Mk IV however was a new design to the 'Wheeled Tank' philosophy. One of the reasons for the 'sit higher off the ground ' appearance is because the 'Wheeled Tank' type vehicles also possessed good ground clearance and had excellent cross-country performance compared to the earlier design. They were also almost universally well-liked by their operators.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.77.171 (talk) 11:53, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Another 'hound' here: M38 Wolfhound.