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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #270 em: Janeiro 03, 2017, 02:14:52 pm »
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« Responder #271 em: Janeiro 05, 2017, 02:59:19 pm »
U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS NUMBERS SURGE IN AFRICA’S SHADOW WARS



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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #272 em: Janeiro 09, 2017, 12:55:16 am »
Largest Deployment of US Armaments Since Cold War Arrives in Germany






Soldiers offloading some 2,800 pieces of equipment from 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, including 87 tanks and 144 Bradley fighting vehicles, in the German port city of Bremerhaven in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. The convoy is heading for Poland for the upcoming NATO exercise.
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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #273 em: Janeiro 18, 2017, 01:43:39 pm »
Fonix, 142 milenas em máquinas.  8)

http://www.forte.jor.br/2017/01/16/u-s-army-compra-mais-de-1-600-maquinas-jcb/

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Pedido de US$142 milhões é a segunda maior compra individual da história da JCB

São Paulo, 16 de janeiro de 2017 – A JCB inicia 2017 comemorando o fechamento de um dos maiores pedidos dentro dos seus 70 anos de história: US$ 142 milhões é o valor referente à venda de mais de 1.600 empilhadeiras todo terreno 527-58M para o Exército Norte-Americano. Produzidas em Savannah (EUA), as máquinas serão utilizadas em bases militares localizadas em diversas regiões do mundo para realizar tarefas como a carga e descarga de aeronaves e navios.


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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #274 em: Janeiro 18, 2017, 05:04:37 pm »
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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #275 em: Janeiro 18, 2017, 05:46:05 pm »
The US Army has big plans for its next-generation tank

The Army is now performing concept modeling and early design work for a new mobile, lethal, high-tech future lightweight tank platform able to detect and destroy a wider range of targets from farther distances, cross bridges, incinerate drones with lasers and destroy incoming enemy artillery fire –  all for the 2030s and beyond.

The new vehicle, now emerging purely in the concept phase, is based upon the reality that the current M1A2 SEP Abrams main battle tank can only be upgraded to a certain limited extent, senior Army officials explained.

The Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC, is now immersed in the development of design concepts for various super high-tech tank platforms, Maj. Gen. David Bassett, Program Executive Officer, Ground Combat Systems, told Scout Warrior in an exclusive interview.

Bassett emphasized the extensive conceptual work, simulation and design modeling will be needed before there is any opportunity to “bend metal” and produce a new tank.

“We’ve used concept modeling. What are the limits of what you can do? What does a built from the ground up vehicle look like? We are assuming, if we are going to evolve it, it is because there is something we can’t do in the current vehicle,” Basset explained.

The new tank will emerge after the Army first fields its M1A2 SEP v4 upgraded Abrams tank in the 2020s, a more lethal Abrams variant with 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared Sensors for greater targeting range and resolution and more lethal Advanced Multi-Purpose, or AMP ammunition combining many rounds into a single 120mm round.

The AMP round will replace four tank rounds now in use. The first two are the M830, High Explosive Anti-Tank, or HEAT, round and the M830A1, Multi-Purpose Anti -Tank, or MPAT, round.

The SEP v4 variant, slated to being testing in 2021, will also include new laser rangefinder technology, color cameras, integrated on-board networks, new slip-rings, advanced meteorological sensors, ammunition data links and laser warning receivers.

However, although Army developers often maintain that while the latest, upgraded high-tech v4 Abrams is much more advanced than the first Abrams tanks produced decades ago, there are limits to how much the existing Abrams platform can be upgraded.

A lighter weight, more high-tech tank will allow for greater mobility in the future, including an ability to deploy more quickly, handle extremely rigorous terrain, integrate new weapons, cross bridges inaccessible to current Abrams tanks and maximize on-board networking along with new size-weight-and-power configurations.

Although initial requirements for the future tank have yet to emerge, Bassett explained that the next-generation platform will use advanced sensors and light-weight composite armor materials able to achieve equal or greater protection at much lighter weights.

“We will build in side and underbody protection from the ground up,” Bassett said.

Bassett said certain immediate changes and manufacturing techniques could easily save at least 20-percent of the weight of a current 72-ton Abrams.

The idea is to engineer a tank that is not only much more advanced than the Abrams in terms of sensors, networking technology, force tracking systems, an ability to control nearby drones and vastly increased fire-power – but to build a vehicle with open-architecture such that it can quickly accommodate new technologies as they emerge.

For instance, Bassett pointed out that the Abrams was first fielded with a 105mm cannon – yet built with a mind to potential future upgrades such that it could be configured to fire a 120mm gun.

“The vehicle needs to have physical adaptability and change and growth ability for alterations as one of its premises – so it can learn things about energy and power and armor. The Army really needs to think about growth as an operational need,” Rickey Smith, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-9, Training and Doctrine Command, told Scout Warrior in an interview.

Smith explained how, for example, Humvees were not built for the growth necessary to respond to the fast-emerging and deadly threat of roadside bombs in Iraq.

The new tank will be specifically engineered with additional space for automotive systems, people and ammunition.  As computer algorithms rapidly advance to allow for greater levels of autonomy, the Abrams tank will be able to control nearby drones using its own on-board command and control networking, service developers said.

Unmanned “wing-man” type drones could fortify attacking ground forces by firing weapons, testing enemy defenses, carrying suppliers or performing forward reconnaissance and reconnaissance missions while manned-crews remained back at safer distances.

Bassett, and developers with General Dynamics Land Systems, specifically said that this kind of autonomy was already being worked on for current and future tanks.

Active protection systems are another instance of emerging technologies which will go on the latest state-of-the-art Abrams tanks and also quite likely be used for the new tank. Using computer algorithms, fire control technology, sensors and an interceptor of some kind, Active Protection Systems are engineered to detect, track and destroy incoming enemy fire in a matter of milliseconds.

The Army is currently fast-tracking an effort to explore a number of different APS systems for the Abrams. General Dynamics Land Systems is, as part of the effort, using its own innovation to engineer an APS system which is not a “bolt-on” type of applique but something integrated more fully into the tank itself, company developers have told Scout Warrior.

The use of space in the new vehicle, drawing upon a better allocation of size-weight-and-electrical power will enable the new tank to accommodate better weapons, be more fuel efficient and provide greater protection to the crew.

“If you have less volume in the power train, you can get down to something with less transportability challenges,” he said. “If you add additional space to the vehicle, you can take out target sets at greater distances.”

While advanced Abrams tanks will be using a mobile Auxiliary Power Unit to bring more on-board electrical power to the platform for increased targeting, command-and-control technologies and weapons support, mobile power is needed to sustain future systems such as laser weapons.

The Army cancelled its plans for a future Ground Combat Vehicle, largely for budget reasons, some of the innovations, technologies and weapons systems are informing this effort to engineer a new tank for the future.

Design specs, engineering, weapons and other innovations envisioned for the GCV are now being analyzed for the new tank. In particular, the new tank may use an emerging 30mm cannon weapon planned for the GCV – the ATK-built XM813.

The XM813, according to Army developmental papers, is able to fire both armor-piercing rounds and air-burst rounds which detonate in the air in proximity to an enemy in defilade, hiding behind a rock or tree, for example.

The computer-controlled and electronically driven weapon can fire up to 200 rounds per minute, uses a dual-recoil firing system and a semi-closed bolt firing mode, Army information says.

Light Weight 120mm Cannon

The new tank may quite likely use a futuristic, lightweight 120mm cannon first developed years ago for the Army’s now-cancelled Future Combat Systems, or FCS; FCS worked on a series of “leap-ahead” technologies which, in many instances, continue to inform current Army modernization efforts.

The FCS program developed next-generation sensors, networking, robots and a series of mobile, high-tech 27-ton Manned-Ground Vehicles, or MGVs.

The MGVs included a Non-Line-of-Sight artillery variant, Reconnaissance and Surveillance, Infantry, Medical and Command-and-Control variants, among others. One of the key vehicles in this planned future fleet was the Mounted Combat System, or MCS.

The overall MGV effort was cancelled by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2009 because Gates felt that the 27-ton common chassis was not sufficiently survivable enough in a modern IED-filled threat environment.

Although the MGVs were engineered with a so-called “survivability onion” of networked sensors and active protection systems to identify and destroy approaching enemy fire at great distances, many critics of FCS felt that the vehicles were not sufficient to withstand a wide range of enemy attacks should incoming fire penetrate sensors or hit targets in the event that the sensor malfunctioned or were jammed.

The Army’s MCS program developed and test-fired a super lightweight 120mm cannon, called the XM360, able to fire existing and emerging next-generation tank rounds. The lightweight weapon being developed for the MCS was two-tons, roughly one-half the weight of the existing Abrams 120mm cannon.

The MCS was to have had a crew of two, a .50 caliber machine gun, and a 40mm automatic grenade launcher.

In fact, the Army’s recent Combat Vehicle Modernization Strategy specifically mentions the value of adapting the XM360 for future use.

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Next-Generation Large Caliber Cannon Technology. The XM360 next-generation 120mm tank cannon integrated with the AAHS will provide the M1 Abrams a capability to fire the next generation of high-energy and smart-tank ammunition at beyond line-of-sight (LOS) ranges. The XM360 could also incorporate remote control operation technologies to allow its integration on autonomous vehicles and vehicles with reduced crew size. For lighter weight vehicles, recoil limitations are overcome by incorporating the larger caliber rarefaction wave gun technology while providing guided, stabilized LOS, course-corrected LOS, and beyond LOS accuracy

Bassett said the potential re-emergence of the XM360 is indicative of the value of prototyping and building subsystem technologies.

The MCS was test-fired at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., in 2009. The platform used an aluminum turret and three-man crew using an automatic loading system. Also, the MCS was engineered to fire 120mm rounds up to 10 kilometers, what’s called Beyond-Line-of-Sight using advanced fire control and targeting sensors, General Dynamics developers explained at the time.

Special new technology was needed for the XM360 in order to allow a lighter-weight cannon and muzzle to accommodate the blast from a powerful 120mm tank round.

Elements of the XM360 include a combined thermal and environmental shroud, blast deflector, a composite-built overwrapped gun, tube-modular gun-mount, independent recoil brakes, gas-charged recuperators, and a multi-slug slide block breech with an electric actuator, Army MCS developmental documents describe.

Smith added that a lighter-weight, more mobile and lethal tank platform will be necessary to adjust to a fast-changing modern threat environment including attacking RPGs, Anti-Tank-Guided Missiles and armor-piercing enemy tank rounds.  He explained that increased speed can be used as a survivability combat-enhancing tactic, adding that there are likely to be continued urban threats in the future as more populations migrates into cities.

“Never forget what it is you are trying to use it for,” Smith said.

 :arrow: http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the-us-army-next-generation-tank-abrams

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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #276 em: Janeiro 29, 2017, 12:55:33 pm »
Uma mulher entra pela primeira vez nas fileiras dos Rangers


É a primeira militar a integrar as forças especiais. Com ela, passou uma outra mulher num curso em que só se participa com folha de serviços distinta e indicação superior

O 75.º Regimento de Rangers vai ter, a partir da primavera, uma mulher nas suas fileiras pela primeira vez na história. E como oficial. O nome e posto não foram divulgados, mas o que se sabe é que completou com sucesso, em dezembro, o curso de 21 dias destinado a avaliar as capacidades de atuar em condições extremas e situações de combate. Será também a primeira mulher a integrar uma unidade de operações especiais.

Atualmente prestam serviço nas forças armadas dos Estados Unidos 207 308 mulheres, mais 6790 na guarda costeira. Somadas, correspondem a 14,6% do total de efetivos.

A ausência de informações sobre a oficial do 75.º Regimento de Rangers resulta da orientação seguida para "todos os elementos das nossas forças especiais", explicou um porta-voz ao jornal Army Times. "A identidade, área de especialidade e carreira dos nossos Rangers não são divulgados de acordo com a política de segurança em vigor", disse aquele porta-voz.

O curso, designado RASP 2 (Ranger Assessment and Selection Program, Programa de Avaliação e Seleção Ranger), destina-se a oficiais e ao equivalente a primeiros-sargentos no exército português, abrangendo treino de táticas especiais, simulação de missões e utilização de materiais e equipamentos empregues em ações reais. É ainda testada a capacidade de liderança. No RASP 2 só são aceites militares com uma folha de serviço distinta e recomendação superior.

A nova oficial foi uma das três mulheres que fizeram o RASP 2, tendo duas delas passado, só que a segunda com valores que não lhe permitiam aspirar à ambicionada boina e insígnias Rangers. Segundo o Army Times de setembro de 2016, uma mulher tentara mas falhara o RASP 2 em junho deste ano.

Há um outro curso, para sargentos e soldados (o RASP 1), com oito semanas de duração. É esta a porta de entrada para a grande maioria dos efetivos do regimento. O site de notícias militares Task & Purpose, que primeiro divulgou a notícia, descrevia o RASP 1 como um "curso brutal em que, até à data, nenhuma mulher se inscreveu".

A unidade, sediada em Forte Benning, Georgia, foi criada na II Guerra Mundial, e tem participado em todos os conflitos militares em que os EUA têm estado envolvidos desde então. Os Rangers têm atuado em tempos mais recentes no assassínio seletivo ou captura de "alvos importantes" e na realização de "outras operações clandestinas".

Em 2015, três mulheres tinham completado o curso da Escola Ranger em Forte Benning - curso de 61 dias - com sucesso. Em final desse ano, o então secretário da Defesa, Ashton B. Carter, autorizava mulheres em postos de combate desde que passassem nas provas necessárias para o efeito a partir do início de 2016. Donald Trump já deixou em aberto a possibilidade de revogar a decisão.

Um porta-voz do comando das forças especiais do Exército, do qual depende a unidade, explicou que a nova oficial dos Rangers passará àquela que é considerada a primeira força de ataque de infantaria quando terminar a missão na sua atual unidade. É atualmente oficial num regimento de apoio operacional, isto é, especializado em áreas como a engenharia, informações, comunicações, guerra química, entre outras.

Até agora, escrevia a 19 deste mês o The Washington Post, houve militares do sexo feminino em unidades a operar em conjunto com os Rangers, dando o diário americano como exemplo as chamadas equipas de apoio cultural (Cultural Support Teams) que ajudavam as afegãs e recolhiam informações.

A notícia da colocação de uma primeira mulher como oficial dos Rangers surgiu pouco antes de, por seu turno, os marines anunciarem que homens e mulheres das unidades de infantaria vão treinar em conjunto. Como explicou um dos responsáveis do 1.º Batalhão do 8.º Regimento Marine, major Charles Anklam III, ao Marine Times: "Não vamos mudar o nosso comportamento tático ou pôr em causa a coesão de uma unidade ou mudar o que quer que seja para acomodar diferenças de género enquanto estamos em ambiente operacional." Assim, as três primeiras mulheres que entraram no batalhão em janeiro vão comer, dormir e treinar com os elementos masculinos. Para o comandante do batalhão, tenente-coronel Reginald McClam, "quando fiz o juramento de oficial não disse que ia comandar marines homens ou marines femininos, nem marinheiros ou marinheiras. Afirmei apenas que ia comandar marines".

Longe vão os tempos em que a questão das mulheres em situação de combate era um tema profundamente controverso. Como o demonstra o caso fictício retratado no filme de 1997 G.I. Jane, protagonizado por Demi Moore.


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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #277 em: Fevereiro 19, 2017, 04:07:18 pm »
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« Responder #278 em: Fevereiro 20, 2017, 02:15:40 pm »
 

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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #279 em: Fevereiro 24, 2017, 03:35:23 pm »
Citação de: 82nd Airborne Division
An important stage in our history has come to an end. The Pathfinders are gone.
Born of the catastrophic airborne assaults in Sicily in WWII, the Pathfinders were critical to the Division's mission in St. Mere Eglise on D Day.
The last of out Pathfinders returned from Djibouti earlier this month and yesterday our Pathfinder company deactivated. F Company, 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, was the Army's last remaining Pathfinder company.
Our Pathfinders will remain an important part of our rich heritage. We will pay tribute to the legacy of the Pathfinder in an upcpoming episode of the All American Legacy Podcast.

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« Responder #280 em: Março 18, 2017, 10:04:49 pm »
Estrutura e tabela de equipamentos das Brigadas de Infantaria, Mecanizada e Striker na versão proposta para o ano de 2012.
Para para quem queira ter uma ideia da quantidade de veículos, equipamento e pessoal daquelas organizações.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/other/msm3-90_2012.pdf

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« Responder #281 em: Abril 05, 2017, 02:08:10 pm »
US Army Considers Adopting an Interim Battle Rifle in 7.62 NATO

According to multiple sources, what started out as a directed requirement for a 7.62 NATO Designated Marksmanship Rifle for issue to Infantry Rifle Squads has grown in scope to increase the Basis of Issue to all personnel in Brigade Combat Teams and perhaps beyond. The genesis of this requirement is overmatch. The troops feel like they’re in a street fight with a guy with longer arms. The 7.62x54R cartridge gives the enemy those longer arms.

Consequently, the Army wants to enable the rifleman to accurately engage targets at a further range than the current 5.56mm. Although at this point, I’ll keep that exact exact distance close to the vest. The goal here is to foster a dialogue about the 7.62 requirement in general, and not offer operational specifics.

It’s important to establish right up front that 7.62mm is not the Army’s end goal. The “Interim” component of this capability’s name relies on a plan to eventually adopt one of the 6.5mm family of intermediate calibers. Currently, elements of the Army are evaluating .260, .264 USA and .277 USA. The .260 is commercially available while .264 USA and .277 USA are developments of the Army Marksmanship Unit. Unfortunately, the US Army doesn’t plan to conduct an intermediate caliber study until the early 2020s. That’s why they want to adopt 7.62mm now. The idea is to adopt the Battle Rifle to deal with a newly identified threat with what’s available now, and transition the fleet to an intermediate caliber cartridge, once its selected. Additionally, the transition to this proposed intermediate caliber cartridge is possible from a 7.62 platform. Such a transition is all-but-impossible with the current 5.56 receiver sets.

The path of least resistance may well be to adopt an existing 7.62mm Government Off The Shelf (GOTS) weapon. It means less oversight and is quicker to put in action. There are currently four options, although the first one I’ll mention hasn’t even been discussed.



First up is the M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle. This option, isn’t even really an option. Brought back into limited service during the early years of the war, it suffers from numerous shortcomings. However, it did validate the need for a 7.62 rifle option.



Second, is the Mk17 SCAR-H. Built by FN, and designed to meet USSOCOM’s SOF Combat Assault Rifle requirement, it is a modular platform with a simple swap from one caliber to another. This makes it very attractive for a planned transition to a new cartridge. However, the platform was adopted after a competition between 5.56 weapons and was not evaluated for adoption against other weapons in its 7.62 configuration. USSOCOM recently removed all of its SCARs from service so they are there for the taking. Unfortunately, it’s not a panacea. There aren’t nearly enough in inventory so the Army would have to buy more, but that’s true of any of the GOTS options. Finally, the Mk17 uses a proprietary magazine, adapted from the FN FAL which is less than ideal.



The third option is is the M110 Semi-Auto Sniper System. Currently in service with the Army as a Sniper weapon, it is manufactured by Knight’s Armament Co. As a system, SASS comes with a rather expensive optic and some other accessories not for general issue. On the plus side, it has been adopted by numerous other user groups and a multitide of variants are readily available. It uses what most believe is the best of the 7.62 AR-style magazines and is considered industry standard.



The final GOTS option is the newly adopted M110A1, Compact Semi-Auto Sniper System. Manufactured by H&K, it is a variant of their HK417 platform, or more specifically, an Americanized G28 sniper rifle. It utilizes a piston system which many prefer over the M110’s M4-style direct impingement gas operating system. However, as a weapon system, it incorporates an expensive optic and a rather unconventional suppressor system. Additionally, it uses a proprietary magazine. Essentially, it would need to be “dumbed down” for general issue.

It’s important to note that if any of one these platforms is adopted for this role, it will require some changes as mentioned above becuase they were all adopted for other requirements.

However, the Army may evaluate these GOTS platforms and determine that none of them meet their requirement. In this case they may very well issue an RFP to industry. There are definite long-term advantages to this course of action. For example, the Army can get exactly what they want, rather than adapting a weapon originally procured for another purpose. Additionally, the Army can leverage the latest in small arms technology such as the new short frame receivers. Interestingly, these may well turn out to be more appropriate for use with an intermediate caliber cartridge.

In order to take full advantage of the range of the 7.62 cartridge, the current draft requirement for the IBR calls for a 1×6 variable optic.

Obviously, a transition to the heavier 7.62 cartridge means a reduction in the basic load of the Soldier, to just under half of the current 210 rounds. That is a serious consideration; perhaps the most important for Army leaders to contemplate. Obviously, transition to the intermediate caliber cartridge will mean more bullets per Soldier, but there must be continued development of polymer cases or telescoping rounds to take fully realize this increase in lethality.

Other factors to consider are the additional weight and recoil of a 7.62mm Battle Rifle. Let’s face it, the military transitioned from the M14 to the M16 for multiple reasons, and one of those was weight savings. Soldiers are also going to require additional training to take full advantage of the new capability. Increased engagement distances also mean Soldiers will require access to longer marksmanship ranges.

Additionally, word is that the Army desires a sub-MOA gun. If this is true, they are setting themselves up for failure because M80 Ball is not sub-MOA ammunition. Even the M110 is required to often 1.3 MOA accuracy. Something similar occurred in USSOCOM’s Precision Sniper Rifle program where the ammo was not spec’d to the same level of the rifle which fired it. If the Army tests any of these rifles, even if built to deliver sub-MOA precision, with an ammunition which delivers 2-3 MOA, they will get 2-3 MOA results. It’s the old story of the weakest link, and the capability will be considered a failure because all of the variables weren’t considered. You want an accurate rifle? Make sure you use accurate ammunition.

Then, there’s this whole ‘interim’ concept. Too many times I’ve seen capabilities that were sold initially as an interim and ended up never being replaced with the proposed final capability. There’s always a chance our Soldiers could get stuck with a 7.62 rifle if the planned caliber study doesn’t pan out or worse yet, DoD faces another budget challenged situation similar to the sequester. As we’ve learned, we go to war with the Army we have, not the one we wish we had.

While the change to the intermediate cartridge could be accomplished with bolt and barrel swaps, which is less expensive than completely new rifles, the Army will still need to transition to a new ammunition. That would be two ammunition transitions in less than a decade and three within 15 years, if you consider M855A1.

To be sure, this is a very exciting opportunity for the US Army. It could well mean the first major upgrade to the Soldier’s individual weapon in half a century. My concern, as always, is that the Army doesn’t rush into something it will regret, and that it creates a realistic requirememt, having considered all factors, including ammunition and magazines, which continue to plague the M4. As the DoD budget grows over the next few years, there will be money enough to make rash as well as bad decisions.

On the other hand, there will be institutional momentum against this concept. The Army must not let those voices drown out the requirement to overmatch the reach of our enemies on the battlefield. If the requirement is valid, then it must be supported. The rifle is the most basic weapon in the Army’s inventory.

Instead, the Army must navigate the middle path, carefully considering its near and long-tern requirements. The M16/M4 with its 5.56mm caliber have been in service for over 50 years. The next rifle may well be in service just as long. Or, until Phased Plasma Rifles, in the 40-watt range are available.

http://soldiersystems.net/2017/04/05/us-army-considers-7-62-interim-battle-rifle/#comments

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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #282 em: Maio 05, 2017, 04:45:26 pm »
Isto seria a Aero-Mecanização da Divisão Aerotransportada, mas já vi videos onde via-se que esse é o objectivo final do Exército Norte-Americano.

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The Army's 82nd Airborne is preparing to use a Marine vehicle for airdrops


By: Todd South, April 28, 2017 (Photo Credit: Spc. Ryan Mercado/Army)

For what’s likely the first time in history, the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division is having Marine armored vehicles modified for airdrops as the paratroopers consider adding the vehicle to their Global Response Force toolkit.

Last year and earlier this year, soldiers with the 82nd Airborne's 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment conducted simulator training with Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, hands-on driver training at Camp Pendleton, California, and maintenance training at Fort Lee, Virginia, said Capt. John Moore, a spokesman for the division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team. 

The paratroopers like the Light Armored Vehicle 25 for its lighter weight — compared to the Army's Strykers — and superior firepower as compared to what they have on hand at the division, Moore said. He declined to comment on the number of vehicles or airdrop testing but did say that the airdrop ability would be a “significant capability increase.”

The 82nd is part of the Global Response Force, with units ready to deploy to contingencies around the world on short notice. Under the mission, a battalion-sized element must be able to deploy within 18 hours, with others following soon after. 

The LAV is an eight-wheeled vehicle that weighs 31,000 to 38,000 pounds, depending on the variant. The models being tested by the 82nd Airborne have a 25 mm gun. The vehicles also use a three-person crew and can carry an additional six troops, according to General Dynamics Land Systems data.

The Marines have sent four LAVs for testing and training by soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said John Myers, the deputy program manager for the Marines' LAVs. Three other LAVs are at General Dynamics, the private company that produces the LAV and Stryker, where they are being modified for air drops, he said. 

General Dynamics Land Systems has already delivered one of the modified LAVs and expects to have the other LAVs ready in the next few months for a scheduled air drop, likely at Fort Bragg, in November, said Michael Peck, director of the company’s Enterprise Business Development.

This is the first time Peck knew of, he said, that any military client requested the LAV be used in an airdrop. But the company did its own successful airdrop tests of both the LAV and the Stryker in the early 2000s.


No clients had made requests for the modifications until now, Peck said. Most of their foreign nation clients use the LAV variants for homeland defense and don’t have a need for airborne operations.

Peck said that the modifications require chassis work that involves parachute rigging attachments. The work takes about one month per vehicle. 

He said that four LAVs or three Strykers, depending on the model, could fit into a C-17.

Interestingly, the LAV was originally going to be provided for both the Army and Marines when the Department of Defense began exploring the vehicle as an option. However, the Army opted out of the LAVs at the time.

The Army has expressed interest in taking up to 60 LAV-25s, contingent upon test results, said Barb Hamby, spokeswoman for Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia.


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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #283 em: Maio 30, 2017, 10:43:15 am »
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Re: Exército dos EUA
« Responder #284 em: Julho 10, 2017, 01:27:15 pm »
https://orbisdefense.blogspot.pt/2017/05/us-army-tenta-localizar-mais-de-us1.html
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Exército dos EUA tentam localizar mais de US$1 Bilhão em armas e munições "extraviadas" no Iraque

Essa notícia já circula por diversos meios de comunicação pelo mundo na última semana, mas só agora foi confirmada de maneira oficial pela redação da Orbis Defense, com a ajuda de nossos colaboradores na Europa e EUA. O Exército dos EUA perdeu o controle de mais de US $ 1 bilhão em armas e outros equipamentos destinados a aliados locais que combatem o Estado Islâmico (ISIS / ISIL) no Iraque, incluindo um grupo iraniano de combatentes xiitas, revela um relatório oficial do DoD - Departement of Defense dos USA, obtido pela Organização "Anistia Internacional" através de uma ação formal de pedido de informações, garantida pelo Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) realizada por Patrick Wilcken, investigador de direitos humanos e controle de armas da "Amnistia Internacional".

Somente no ano fiscal de 2015 (Governo Obama), que inclui o tempo coberto pela auditoria do governo, o Congresso dos EUA destinou US $ 1,6 bilhão em armas para grupos que alegadamente efetuam a luta contra o ISIS e contra o governo da Síria. Desde 2016 ocorre uma auditoria para a tentativa de descobrir o paradeiro de todos esses equipamentos.



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