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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 14, 2021 at 2:09 PM
The M113 has been in service since Vietnam but the Army needs to keep the ones it has working until they’re replaced by the new AMPV. Shown here is an experimental automated testbed.
WASHINGTON: The Army’s boxed into a budgetary corner where budget cuts would imperil a “fragile” modernization effort, topofficials warned on Tuesday.
The service has already done three years of grueling “night court” drills to winnow low-priority programs from the budget, moving over $30 billion dollars – with steadily diminishing returns. “The first year we took the low-lying fruit, and we got to the middle of the tree [in year two],” said Gen. James McConville, the chief of Army staff. “[Now] we’re at the top of the tree.”
The Army Is Ditching All of Its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems
A Stryker equipped with a mobile gun system fires a round of high explosive ammunition July 26, 2011 at Yakima Training Center, Wash. (Mark Miranda/U.S. Army)
12 May 2021
The Army announced Wednesday that it is planning to divest all of its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems by the end of fiscal 2022.
The service said in a news release it had decided the time has come to retire the M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System after a study showed it is obsolete, and its out-of-date cannon and automatic loader have systemic issues. Decisions on when it is best to divest a system currently in the force are not taken lightly, Lt. Gen. James Pasquarette, the Army s deputy chief of staff for programs, said in the release. The Army has done its due diligence to ensure lethality upgrades will remain intact to provide our Stryker formations the capabilities they need in the future.
US Army chief says end strength will stay flat in upcoming budgets 4 days ago Gen. James McConville, left, said Army end strength will likely stay the same if budgets don t grow, but the service will do what it can to make sure numbers don t go down. (Spc. Thomas Scaggs/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army chief of staff has said that if the budget top line in future years either stays the same or decreases, he doesn’t see the service’s end strength dropping, but he also doesn’t see it growing. “When it comes to what chiefs have to grapple with in a budget, it’s end strength and structure, it’s readiness, and it’s modernization. Those are the three kind of big resource buckets we have,” Gen. James McConville said at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Next symposium, held virtually March 16.
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