Tuesday, December 27, 2011

How about we get some off the shelf solutions to the JLTV issue.

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.