McMaster Teases Combat Vehicle Modernization Strategy to Be Revealed at AUSA

By Jen Judson 11:51 a.m. EDT September 11, 2015

WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster the head of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, said today the service will unveil its combat vehicle modernization strategy at the Association of the United States Army's annual convention in Washington next month.

McMaster said in the past, that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan caused the Army to rightfully focus on vehicle protection at the expense of mobility and lethality, but now it's time to focus on all three, although he acknowledged there will need to be tradeoffs.

The three-star said the Army will purchase in the next year or so three battalions worth of ground mobility vehicles. The service is looking across industry for off-the-shelf capabilities that exist now, and will evaluate those for early entry forces in anti-access, aerial denial environments. These forces need to be able to move in, dismount, fire, maneuver against the enemy and control terrain, he said.


For Stryker brigade combat teams, McMaster said the Army needs to provide additional lethality to vehicles. We have a Stryker mounted with a World War II weapon, he said. This means the Army would want half of its Stryker armored personnel carriers to have a 30mm cannon and a machine gun and the other half to be equipped with Javelin anti-tank missiles and a machine gun.


And what we really need to do is try to hopefully get some additional funding so we can develop the Future Fighting Vehicle to replace M2 Bradleys before they become really obsolete, McMaster said.

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