![]() ![]() The war with China will be nearly entirely naval and air. However, US Army planners are in an absolute flux regarding where to deploy the tank, given neither of the possible theatres the US might face – Europe and Western Pacific – suited for the tank.Īgainst Russia in Europe, the light tanks will be decimated by heavy Russian armor and rocket-propelled grenades. A few Sheridans were used as target practice and mock enemy vehicles until 2003. The Sheridan was infamous for an overly complex 152 mm gun/missile launcher, and following retirement, and was retired in 997. They were competitive.” After beginning the competitive tender in 2015 that involved commercial and user trials, the Army narrowed down on designs from GDLS and BAE Systems in 2018.īAE Systems fielded a version of the 1980s Buford Armoured Gun System (AGS) developed for the Army to replace its last light tank, the Vietnam War-era M551A1 Sheridan. Glenn Dean, the US Army’s Program Executive Officer for Ground Combat Systems, told journalists, “This achieved everything we intended. MPF is a benchmark program, as the acquisition and requirement communities worked together to complete the (middle-tier acquisition rapid-prototyping) phase and move this system into production in just under four years,” said Doug Bush, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology in a statement. “The MPF program did exactly what the Army asked: to complete a competitive and accelerated rapid prototyping effort with Soldier touchpoints. The GDLS birthed the Griffin III, a contender for the US Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program, meant to replace the service’s Bradley fighting vehicles. Griffin II was derived from the Austrian-Spanish ASCOD armored vehicle series, which also influenced the British Army’s troubled Ajax Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). Unlike the Griffin’s 120 mm gun, it has a 105 mm gun mounted in a turret derived from the one on the M1 Abrams tank and a Fire Control System (FCS) system based on the M1A2 System Enhanced Package Version 3 (SEPv3) variant. While the first unit will be fully equipped with them by 2025, the Army initially plans to buy 504 new light tanks by the end of 2035, whether this figure includes any of the preproduction examples that General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) already supplied for testing.īased on the company’s Griffin II, it is slated to be formally named at the US Army’s annual convention in Washington DC. The contract worth up to $1.14 billion will cover an initial low-rate production order of 96 vehicles, with the Army expected to take delivery of the first examples, from an initial lot of 26 MPFs, by December 2023. Cruise Missile or Suicide Drone – Russia Shoots Down Invading Tu-143 Inside Its Airspace With Buk Missile ![]() The United States (US) Army is set to receive its first light tank for the first time since the Cold War – the General Dynamics Land Systems’ Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) – according to a report in US Media.
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