A modified M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, a heavily armed and armored troop carrier. (DoD)
Breaking Defense: ‘Really Big Deal’ As Army Awards Bradley Replacement Contracts: OFMV
"This is a really big deal," said Maj. Gen. Ross Coffman, director of the Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross-Functional Team. "So far, we've learned a lot of great lessons but we think we're on the right track." It is very important for the Army to be right this time.
WASHINGTON: The Army, hopeful it has put aside two decades of wasted development efforts, took the large step Friday evening of awarding contracts worth $299.4 million to five companies for the second phase of the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, the overdue replacement for the venerable Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
The contracts were awarded to Point Blank Enterprises; Oshkosh Defense; BAE Systems Land and Armaments; General Dynamics Land Systems; and American Rheinmetall Vehicles.
During this phase of the program, industry will develop digital designs while requirements mature; prototypes will be required in the following phase.
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Update: US Army chooses competitors to design infantry fighting vehicle replacement (Defense News)
WNU Editor: from Defense News .... The prototyping phase will begin in FY25 and vehicle testing will begin in FY26 and wrap up the following year with a production decision planned for the fourth quarter of FY27. Full-rate production is expected to begin in the second quarter of FY30.
4 comments:
Long overdue.
"So far, we've learned a lot of great lessons but we think we're on the right track."
Yep, great lessons that only a bloated, groupthink, unimaginative, near-sighted beauracracy can teach you. As far as "learning" from those lessons--I'll believe it when I see it. But probably won't live that long.
Watch the Pentagon Wars.
The original Bradley: "a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower, but has enough ammo to take out half of D.C."
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