Brigade Combat Team Modernization

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The Brigade Combat Team Modernization program is designed to extensively modernize the United States Army to replace previous Cold War equipment. This was originally supposed to happen through the Future Combat System (FCS), which was deleted on June 23, 2009 by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates , as in his opinion it does not take sufficient account of the experiences of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Capability Packages

The program is divided into so-called capability packages . This structure is intended to avoid cost overruns. The Early Infantry Brigade Combat Team Capability Package (E-IBCT) is intended to bring systems that have already been developed for the Future Combat System to the troops. The troops will be equipped with a Network Integration Kit (NIK) to enable networked warfare . Later, with the Follow On Incremental Capabilities, further components will be added to the Global Information Grid network .

Although the program lags far behind the Future Combat System in terms of its technical requirements , its scope is larger: All 73 active and reserve Brigade Combat Teams are to receive the equipment, which in the long term leads to the replacement of all important combat vehicles ( e.g. M1 Abrams , M2 Bradley , M113 ) will lead.

Components

E-IBCT

These systems have already been developed for the FCS and some of them are already in use; delivery is scheduled to start in 2011:

This part of the program also includes various new camouflage suits. The US Army tested the multicam camouflage suits in Afghanistan and ghillie suits with the same camouflage pattern. An improved Army Combat Uniform called the Universal Camouflage Pattern - Delta was also tested; it was essentially an ACU with brown splashes of paint. On February 19, 2010, MultiCam was selected as the US Army’s new camouflage pattern.

The originally associated XM501 Non Line of Sight Launch System was subsequently deleted.

Follow On Incremental Capabilities

The following developments should include an AN / PSW-2 common controller . It is a handheld console with which infantrymen can access components of the network (SUGV, NLOS-LS).

New tanks are also planned. These will be less technically demanding than the Manned Ground Vehicles of the Future Combat System . The specifications are to be announced in February 2010; It is still unclear whether a vehicle family should be created, but this is likely. The first vehicle in the fleet known as the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) will be the infantry transport variant. As many existing technologies as possible are to be used to complete the tender at the end of 2011 and to deliver the first vehicles in 2017. All M113 are to be retired by 2018 , after which it will be the turn of the M2 Bradley . The Stryker Armored Vehicles , the M1 Abrams and the M109 Paladin will initially be modernized and not replaced. However, there were delays in mid-February as the vehicle weight has now risen to 70 tons. On February 25, 2010, the US Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) published the tender . The first prototype should be completed in 2014. Because of the weight, among other things, the GCV program was canceled at the end of August and a new tender was launched in October.

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