Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle in field test, accompanied by Humvees
Breaking Defense: Faster, Tougher, Smarter: Army’s Future Armored Force EXCLUSIVE
Adding robot scouts and replacing vintage vehicles – the M113, the M2 Bradley, and potentially even the M1 Abrams – will make heavy brigades much more mobile, lethal, and aware of threats, Maj. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman says.
WASHINGTON: The tanks, they are a-changin’. the Army’s deadline to submit concepts for a new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle that will replace the Reagan-era M2 Bradley is just 11 days away, April 16. The service is already buying a replacement for the even older M113, a tracked workhorse that fought in Vietnam. And it’s experimenting with remote-controlled Robotic Combat Vehicles and even exploring unmanned options to replace the massive M1 Abrams main battle tank.
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WNU Editor: It looks like heightened situational awareness, speed and mobility, robot scouts, and lethal fire-power is the direction that the US Army wants to go with its armored forces.
2 comments:
Hey boss,
Don't forget what we were told ad nauseam about the F-35.
To look at this thing it looks like the US Army's version of the Joad Family limping out to California during the depression in Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. Minus the pig and chickens tied to the thing, of course.
That M113 was an lightly armoured, slab sided target. Note the pictures of troops riding on top of them to try and escape the mines in the roads.
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