Previewed at a trade media event in December 2021, three new Doosan -7 Series wheel loaders are now available at dealerships in the United States and Canada.
"There’s a supplier base, for example, underneath the primes that we have to also be aware of," the Army's acquisition chief said of balancing cuts to older platforms with modernization.
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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.”
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 05, 2021 at 7:01 AM
Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle in field test, accompanied by Humvees
WASHINGTON: The tanks, they are a-changin’. the Army’s deadline to submit concepts for a new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle that will replace the Reagan-era M2 Bradley is just 11 days away, April 16. The service is already buying a replacement for the even older M113, a tracked workhorse that fought in Vietnam. And it’s experimenting with remote-controlled Robotic Combat Vehicles and even exploring unmanned options to replace the massive M1 Abrams main battle tank.
Maj. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman
But how does all this new technology translate into better tactics and more options for commanders? To get a glimpse of that future armored force, I sat down for an exclusive interview with the armor modernization director at Army Futures Command, Maj. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman.