Other opportunities for testing exist in military exercises such as the Army’s Project Convergence. “Can your application do all 13 of those? Yes or no.” “In our model, we have 13 discrete functions that we have identified that battle managers have to perform,” he said at the conference. Daniel Clayton, the director of the ABMS Cross-Functional Team. There, experts can tinker with emerging tech and “assess industry bringing in battle-management applications, et cetera,” said Brig. Key to benchmarking and maturing the Air Force’s future communication abilities is the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, or ShOC-N, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. At the center of that maneuver, Coffman noted, is the armored force, providing mobile, protected, accurate, lethal fires in high volume.U.S. “Combined arms maneuver is how we will be decisive, how we will clear and hold land.” “If you want to take land, if you want to hold land, if you want to clear land, you need the ground element,” Coffman said. Army, particularly the armored force, you’ve made the decision,” Coffman said. While high operational tempo within special operations is often at the top of the headlines, air defense and armored units have also been frequently tapped across the globe in recent years. In 2020, McConville said he worried about ops tempo in general, but he specifically pointed to air defense artillery and ABCTs as his top concerns. Those ABCTs on rotations to Korea, Europe and the Middle East, are also in the midst of major modernization.
That means more than adding new equipment, but also training and adjusting tactics.
In 2018, the Army announced it was converting a Stryker Brigade Combat Team to an ABCT. That followed the conversion of an Infantry BCT to an ABCT the previous year. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) New Russian Armata tanks roll during the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. Recovering armor assets has taken years after conversions in the opposite direction during the early 2000s, when armored forces gave way to Stryker or infantry teams tailored for Iraq and Afghanistan. So, when even one BCT is converted, it’s significant. When those conversions concluded, the Army had 11 ABCTs in the active forces and five ABCTs in the Army National Guard. While more units gives the force added options, the technology in most of the ABCT platforms is decades, sometimes more than half-a-century, old. To keep pace with new threats, from EW to drones and better anti-tank weapons, the Army is doing a years-long overhaul of nearly every part of the ABCT. Russian officials have announced that they would field the T-14 Armata tank in 2022. They have described it as, “the best killing system on the planet.” It could arrive 25 tons lighter, faster and with as much advanced capabilities as what the Army has now.Ĭoffman noted that China has an estimated 7,000 tanks and 3,000 infantry fighting vehicles in its arsenal now, far outnumbering the U.S. “In order to be decisive, we have to be there with armor to prevent the Chinese getting into position of relative advantage,” Coffman said at the March CSIS event. David Johnson now works as a principal researcher for the Rand Corporation and adjunct scholar for the Modern War Institute at West Point. He wrote two papers for Rand - one in 2011 and the other in 2016 - that struck upon many of the armor challenges the Army now faces. Johnson told Army Times that simply looking at what China and Russia are fielding, like tanks and airborne-portable armored infantry carriers, should help U.S.
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