![]() Cougar, BAE Caiman, and heavy duty MaxxPros are pending retirement and storage. The Navistar MaxxPro Dash fleet counts 2,633 vehicles. The most current of these MRAPs is the Oshkosh M-ATV (5,681 vehicles estimated to be kept), a good compromise between the ill-adapted Humvee and 20-tons class heavy 6×6 MRAPS like the Cougar and Buffalo. But future prospects indicates that on this total 5,036 are to be put in storage, while the remainder (1,073) are to be kept for training only and the active force. Following the retirement of Afghanistan and Iraq, about 7,456 are now retired and stored while 8,585 are kept active. There were purchased for the current tasks in line, with no long-term plans. Third, the Stryker, and the M113 armored personnel carrier, made the bulk of the APC force, well completed today by a large fleet (25,000 since 2007 until today) of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles form various manufacturers. Derived from the Canadian LAV-III, 4,187 are in service today, in many variants, including the 105mm M1128 Mobile Gun System. M1120 Stryker The standard wheeled APC/IFV of the US Army today (2000). The iron fist of the Army is the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank, well completed by the while the M2A3 and M3 Bradleys as standard infantry fighting vehicles and recce variant. The modern “battlehorse” of the of the US Army and Marines is the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) or “Humvee”, which proved its extreme versatility and partly replaced the M113. Modern US Tanks, AFVs and assets of the US Army It has been delivered by the thousands since the 1980s to the USMC and US Army alike and replaced since by the Pirhana-III derived LAV-III or Stryker M1120. The LAV-25 Stryker family was derived from the Swiss Mowag Piranha, through a Canadian license-produced vehicle. Equipped with General Dynamics LAV IIIs they are air-transportable worldwide within 48h. The Stryker brigades were high mobility armored brigades also known as the Stryker brigade combat team or motorized brigades equipped with the 8×8 vehicle which formed its backbone. In 2013 the regional command structure was also modified, with the Central headquarter at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, North and south HQs at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Europe HQ at Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden, Germany, Pacific HQ at Fort Shafter, Hawaii and Africa HQ at Vicenza, Italy.īase units were displaced from divisions to brigades, and compositions changed: As of 2014, the Armor brigade, were 4,743 troops strong, the Stryker brigades, 4,500 and the Infantry brigade 4,413. By the 1986 Goldwater–Nichols Act, the command structure was simplified, under a simple pyramid from the President to the unified combatant commanders in their own geographic/function area of responsibility to have all possible military assets underhand. The traditional composition was a regular army alongside National Guard and the Army Reserve. The old organizational structure was to be modified. This process was achieved in the early 2000s and the concept of this reduction can be further expanded to other AFVs. The M1A1/A2 Abrams and variants were kept in service while older M1s joined the national guard and replace the former M60 and M48 still in the inventory. Just like Russia and the successor states were left with tens of thousands of obsolete and worn-out tanks and limited budgets, the US Army/Marine ground assets were to be seriously reduced in a concerted manner. The old trusted “battle taxi”, the M113, was also silently but surely out of register, also without a real replacement in view Ground Forces nowadays relies -also dictated by the experience of the longest war faced by the United States since Vietnam- by wheeled vehicles: The Stryker family, the Hummer, and numerous MRAPs/MPVs which reflects the need for vehicles adapted to the urban environment and asymmetric warfare. No real replacement program has ever taken place. ![]() The iconic main battle tank is dating back from 1978, that’s almost 40 years from now! A good indication for that is the fate of US Modern tanks: Like the M1 Abrams. This had tremendous consequences however for the Pentagon policies (and the military-industrial complex), as there was no more incentive under the eyes of the Senate and general public to maintain a huge defense budget. Not in a cataclysmic end, but almost peacefully by the dislocation of the whole Soviet block. The nuclear Damocles sword of the cold war was lifted in 1990. NASA/AMES/FMC HAZMAT Response M577A3 (XHRV-1).Composite Armored Vehicle – Advanced Technology Demonstrator (CAV-ATD).Type 1 Technical (Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series).EM113A2 Rapid Entry Vehicle 2 (EM113A2 REV2 / SPIRAL 2).Deployable Universal Combat Earthmover M105 (DEUCE).About 400,000 armored vehicles until 2016 Tanks
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