Marine Corps procurement is becoming slow, cumbersome and costly. Its time to change gears and get it jump started. The JLTV program is one that we can get off the table by making a decision at HQMC as to what type of vehicle we need and then picking one thats already on the market to fulfill those requirements. Stuff a 5 year development timeline for a battlefield utility vehicle...lets get this done. Potential candidates????
Force Protection Cheetah..
Force Protection Foxhound..(I'm sure doors for drivers and passengers can be added, but supposedly vehicles lose strength when doing so...I don't understand our insistence on that feature)
Iveco LMV Panther...
And those are just a few of the vehicles off the top of my head that fulfill this requirement. We've been squeezing this for too long...time to make it worth it.
Force Protection Cheetah..
Force Protection Foxhound..(I'm sure doors for drivers and passengers can be added, but supposedly vehicles lose strength when doing so...I don't understand our insistence on that feature)
Iveco LMV Panther...
And those are just a few of the vehicles off the top of my head that fulfill this requirement. We've been squeezing this for too long...time to make it worth it.
why dont they build off the M1117 Armored Security Vehicle?
ReplyDeleteit wasn't a satisfactory solution. its basically add on armor that even handle the small ied's being found now.
ReplyDeletemy whole thing is that this should have been solved by now but for some reason HQMC is dragging its feet. make a decision already!
well we have MRAPs out the ass, what about them? i am not being sarcastic or anything, i am truly curious.
ReplyDeleteTo heavy for expedient lift in great numbers, and limited in their role. Also they don't fit on amphibs very well
ReplyDeleteThe Foxhound and Panther are both in UK service (well Foxhound deploys next year). Both good choices from what i've heard but not sure if the Panther does too well against IEDs
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