The US Marine Corps is modernizing its tactical vehicle fleet. New Joint Light Tactical Vehicle will soon deploy and support missions of the naval expeditionary force-in-readiness worldwide. Marine Corps program has reached initial operational capability, nearly a year ahead of schedule.
The JLTV, a program led by the Army, will fully replace the Corps’ aging High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle fleet.
The JLTV family of vehicles comes in different variants with multiple mission package configurations, all providing protected, sustained, networked mobility that balances payload, performance and protection across the full range of military operations.
It is still left to ensure all the operators were fully trained and maintenance tools and spare parts packages were ready. (confirmed by marcorsyscom.marines.mil.)
It is a super-rugged light truck designed to safely perform missions such as tactical mobility, medical evacuation, command and control, reconnaissance, firepower, logistics, and more.
It’s not just that JLTV can easily negotiate any type of terrain and is more reliable than any comparable vehicle, but it can take a hit from enemy small arms, machine guns or rockets and keep fighting, as reported by forbes.com.
Although the team has reached IOC, this is really only the beginning of the JLTV’s future legacy.
The starting line right now. will see JLTVs in the DOD,” in the next years.
Welcome to the start of many generations of JLTVs.
In Quest of Light Vehicle Model
Three teams will build prototypes for the US Army ISV squad vehicle. An Oshkosh Defense and Flyer Defense team, an SAIC and Polaris team, and GM Defense will compete in building the vehicles intended to provide ground mobility for infantry brigade combat teams.
The ISV (internal security vehicle) is intended to supplement and potentially replace vehicles the Army procured as version 1.1 of the Ground Mobility Vehicle.
The ISV “is additive” to infantry brigade combat teams “and currently not planned as a replacement for current vehicles in the formation.”
The three companies received $1 million to build the vehicles, according to DoD released press.
The prototypes will be evaluated in various performance, operational and characteristics tests through the end of the year before being transported to for assessment by soldiers. Each industrial choice is expected to simultaneously deliver information to the Army on price, production and logistics, according to defensenews.com.
The Army will choose one vehicle for production in the second quarter of fiscal 2020 based on soldier feedback and response to a formal request for proposals leading to production.
The prototype competition is a significant step toward a solution after years of uncertainty; the Army seemed geared toward holding a rapid competition to buy a GMV in 2016, but the plan was delayed without much explanation in favor of buying an interim vehicle already in use by special operations forces. (Ramona E.).
