10-09-2015, 20:56
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McMaster Teases Combat Vehicle Modernization Strategy To Be Revealed at AUSA
http://www.defensenews.com/story/de...-ausa/72004208/
McMaster said one of the Army's current priorities for infantry brigade combat teams is to give them a high degree of mobility; capability that allows them to respond quickly, with low logistics demand and also the ability to operate in restricted and urban terrain.
The three-star said the Army will purchase "in the next year or so" three battalions worth of ground mobility vehicles. The service is "looking across industry for off-the-shelf capabilities that exist now" and will evaluate those for early entry forces in anti-access, aerial denial environments. These forces need to be able to move in, dismount, fire, maneuver against the enemy and control terrain, he said.
The Army also needs a light reconnaissance vehicle to equip the light cavalry squadrons so they can conduct offensive security operations "so finally when you are in close contact with the enemy in restricted urban terrain you better have mobile protected firepower," McMaster said.
The service will likely conduct an analysis of alternatives on a non-developmental vehicle to take a look at what is out there on the shelf, he added. "We have to move a lot faster than we have in the past, it can't be another 12 years before we do it," therefore, McMaster noted, "we are not going to ask for technology that doesn't already have a level of maturity that can be incorporated into that vehicle quickly."
For support brigade combat teams, McMaster said the Army needs to provide additional lethality to vehicles. "We have a Stryker mounted with a World War II weapon," he said. This means the Army would want half of its Stryker armored personnel carriers to have a 30mm cannon and a machine gun and the other half to be equipped with Javelin anti-tank missiles and a machine gun. |
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