Воени теренски возила

Мене некако не ми ги фаќа око за во АРМ. Некако ми се повеќе за цивилна варијанта. Единствено може да се сложам за Воена полиција.

Не изгледа нешто опасно ама според угледот што го ужифа брендот фолцваген ова мора да е одлично теренско возило.Како доказ може да се земе релито Дакар, таму колку што знам Фолцваген кај џиповите е безконкуренција.

The Pickup Trucks of War During the Libyan Liberation
http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2011/11/30/The-Pickup-Trucks-of-War-During-the-Libyan-Liberation-7706096/#

За брзи и мобилни десантни единици ова ми изгледа екстра.

Alvar напиша:

The Pickup Trucks of War During the Libyan Liberation
http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2011/11/30/The-Pickup-Trucks-of-War-During-the-Libyan-Liberation-7706096/#

Pimp my Pickup...

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BAE Systems' Joint Light Tactical Vehicle offering, the Valanx

2012 F-250 SuperDuty. 6.7-liter Power Stroke engine
400 horsepower at 2,800 rpm and 800 pound-feet of torque at 1,600 rpm.
Allison military transmissions vs. civilian models deal

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3/26/2012
New Military Vehicle To Use Power Stroke

Chicago Tribune
By Mark Williams

As part of the government's process of finding a new light tactical vehicle replacement for the Hummer, BAE Systems, a global company known for their advanced defense, security, and aerospace systems in the air and on land, is now showing their JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicles) to government officials. The process has several stages but will likely be the vehicle of choice for our military for many years to come.

Glenn Lamartin, BAE Systems JLTV Capture Lead, said "Our JLTVs are protected and survivable, light enough for transport by air or sea, and agile on road and off. Most importantly, they are affordable. This is truly a vehicle that is going to meet the needs of our service men and women."

As part of its proposal, BAE Systems also announced that Ford's 6.7L V-8 Power Stroke will power the JLTV family of vehicles. Among the most important reasons for the choice was the engine's class-leading fuel economy and the best horsepower and torque numbers. This is the same engine Ford created for the F-Series Super Dutys.

Баш ме интересира кое возило ќе го замени Хамвито..

Еве што нуди Lockheed ..

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After years of debate over a replacement for the High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee, it appears that the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is finally moving toward a prototype and testing phase that could result in production orders from the U.S. Army and Marine Corps for more than 55,000 vehicles.

A final requirements document, issued in January, states that two variants will be built. The Combat Tactical Vehicle (CTV) will seat four and carry 3,500 lb., while the Combat Support Vehicle (CSV) will carry two troops and transport 5,100 lb. There will be two armor configurations: the basic protection package as well as an add-on kit; and one for multiple missions. A third variant that would have been a six-seat infantry carrier with a mid-weight payload has been scrapped.

Six bids for the JLTV were submitted at the end of March for the 27-month engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase contract. The Army is expected to issue three awards in June, each worth up to $65 million. Contractors will have 12 months to build and deliver 20 prototypes for government testing, which will last another 15 months. The decision to begin full-scale production is expected in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, with actual production to start in 2016.

In an era of declining defense budgets, it's no surprise that the competition for one of the last remaining major vehicle modernization contracts is fierce. The JLTV program is expected to cost well over $10 billion, though some put that figure as high as $70 billion, depending on per-unit cost and the number of vehicles ordered.

A joint venture between the Army and Marine Corps, the JLTV is expected to provide better protection for passengers and better payload capacity than the Humvee, while retaining mobility and reducing overall weight. The Army intends to purchase at least 50,000, while the Marine Corps is expected to acquire 5,500 vehicles, though final numbers will depend on cost.

The Humvee was done in by the effectiveness of improvised explosive devices (IED) and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Though it has been the primary tactical vehicle for the Army and Marine Corps for 25 years, it was unable to withstand these threats.

At a March 27 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Lt. Gen. Robert P. Lennox, Army deputy chief of staff, explained that the vehicle can no longer be used off-base. “The Humvee . . . is incapable of going off the forward operating base,” he said. “It doesn't provide protection for soldiers today.”

The JLTV has been an option for some time, but like most major acquisition programs has had its share of cost overruns and delays. In 2010, inter-service tension erupted over the project's direction, with the Army putting a priority on survivability, while the Marine Corps expressed reservations about the high price and expected weight, which could prove problematic for transport. It seemed as of February 2011 that the Marine Corps might abandon the JLTV, which would have caused the Army's expected price per vehicle to rise, jeopardizing the program.

Last September the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee recommended the program be terminated, noting “excessive cost growth and constantly changing requirements.” The subcommittee said the services should focus instead on recapitalizing the Humvee, which would modernize and prolong the life of those vehicles. In response, the Army and Marine Corps agreed to coordinate more closely on the JLTV and relax the weight and transportability requirements. They also agreed to bring the target cost down to roughly $250,000 per unit, which made the Humvee recapitalization project's expected cost of $200,000 per vehicle less appealing. With these changes, the JLTV escaped the budget axe, and in October a draft request for proposals (RFP) was issued to industry for a lighter, cheaper JLTV.

One of the three companies that had been selected to participate in the earlier technology development (TD) phase of acquisition is Lockheed Martin, which offers a family of vehicles that have accumulated more than 160,000 combined testing miles and exceeded the TD blast-protection expectations. In contrast to other bidders, Lockheed Martin has had a team working on the JLTV program for seven years.

“Our improvements removed hundreds of pounds of weight from our TD design, which was already proven in helicopter lift tests,” Scott Greene, vice president of ground vehicles at Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control unit, said in a statement. “We've demonstrated our JLTV can reliably meet protection standards of many existing mine-resistant vehicles in combat today. This vehicle is ready to meet our customers' needs with lower-cost materials at full-rate production.”

Also participating in the TD phase was a team led by BAE Systems, which has entered the new EMD phase competition without its TD partner Navistar, which opted to submit its own vehicle. BAE's Valanx will use a Power Stroke 6.7-liter turbodiesel engine—the same used in the Ford F-Series Super Duty pickup truck. Ford had expressed early interest in the JLTV, but could not meet the aggressive development timelines the Army required for an independent bid.

“We have worked hard over the last year to strengthen our team and our offer, bringing together the best of the defense and automotive industries,” said Ann Hoholick, BAE's vice president of amphibious and new programs, in a statement. “Ford products have a reputation for dependability and performance, even under challenging conditions. With their experience in commercial trucks, we see this as a great fit for our JLTV offer.”

Navistar turned heads last October when it unveiled the Saratoga light tactical vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army show despite its partnership with BAE on a TD phase option. But Navistar was hedging its bets between the JLTV and the Humvee recap, opting to design a vehicle that filled the gap between the two sets of specs. The changes to the JLTV requirements and the axing of the Humvee recap program provided Navistar the opportunity to submit the Saratoga to the EMD competition, with minor adjustments such as power-generation capabilities and a reduction in weight.

General Tactical Vehicles (GTV), a joint venture between Humvee manufacturer AM General and General Dynamics Land Systems, was selected as the third TD phase participant. Its EMD proposal, the JLTV Eagle, offers a double-V hull design based on the German army's Eagle IV (manufactured by GD's Swiss subsidiary Mowag), which is used in Afghanistan.

“With the Eagle, we offer a modified, non-developmental, low-risk vehicle with inherent manufacturing readiness that is built for program success and an accelerated path to production,” said Mark Roualet, chairman of GTV's board of directors, in a statement. “We have a team . . . that is offering a mature, fully transportable and highly reliable solution that is ready now.”

In addition to its involvement with GTV's entry, AM General submitted an independent bid. The Blast Resistant Vehicle-Off Road (BRV-O) was a last-minute entrant into the bidding process, though Chris Vanslager, AM General's executive director of business development and defense programs, said work on the BRV-O would not detract from participation in the GTV entry. “Once we received the final [RFPs] with the requirements the government identified, we determined that we had multiple approaches to satisfying the requirements,” Vanslager said. AM General offers in-house engine, transmission and vehicle production and more than 50 years of experience with light tactical vehicles.

The only EMD bidder not involved in a TD phase team, Oshkosh Defense, put forward the Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle, or L-ATV. Oshkosh wants to apply the experience and lessons learned from the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV), which was developed to counter IEDs and landmines but has drawn criticism in some quarters for being too large and heavy.

“We learned a lot not just with the development of the M-ATV, but with the underbody protection kit for the M-ATV,” Rob Messina, vice president of defense engineering, said in a recent interview. “What we had with JLTV was the opportunity for a clean-slate approach. We have developed a very well-protected solution.”

While the Humvee will still be used for homeland defense and logistics support, and the MRAP will remain available for route clearance, for now the JLTV is where the Defense Department is placing its bets. “The major modernization effort for the Army when it comes to tactical wheeled vehicles is with the JLTV,” said Col. Mark Barbosa, division chief for force development logistics.

William Graveline, assistant director for the Government Accountability Office's Acquisition and Sourcing Management Team, suggests that developing better protection capabilities that do not add weight to vehicles will be crucial.

Nevertheless, the intensity and breadth of the JLTV competition suggests that the tactical wheeled vehicle sector is entering an age of austerity in good shape.

Moving Forward With Tactical Vehicles

By Diana Wueger

Source: Defense Technology International

May 01 , 2012

AM General's JLTV Candidate to be Unveiled In Warren

(Source: AM General LLC; issued May 14, 2012)

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LIVONIA, Mich. --- AM General LLC will exhibit its Blast-Resistant Vehicle – Off Road (BRV-O) for the first time at the Defense Industrial Base Expo of the National Defense Industrial Association in Warren on May 15-16.

AM General, whose Engineering and Product Development Center is based in Livonia, announced in March it is backing two separate proposals for the Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program. BRV-O is based on more than a decade of the company's own investments in research, development and testing for the next-generation light tactical military vehicle.

BRV-O features a crew capsule and modular armor already proven effective in government-supervised blast testing. This AM General design can be readily adapted to future changes in U.S. military missions, enemy threats and new protection technologies as they emerge. BRV-O also features a self-leveling suspension system, a C4ISR backbone with open-standard networked architecture and clustered super-computing power, and other advanced components. These and other mature subsystems make BRV-O a highly mobile and versatile platform that meets or exceeds 100 percent of JLTV EMD phase evaluation criteria including protection, performance, payload, transportability, reliability and affordability.

The lightweight, fuel efficient and high performance Optimizer 3200 engine powering BRV-O also will be exhibited at the expo, along with other products of General Engine Products and General Transmission Products, subsidiaries of AM General. The six-cylinder, 3.2 liter, sequentially-turbocharged engine is rated at 300 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque. GEP will also introduce its proposed solution for the Next Generation Combat Engine based on Optimizer 3200 technology.

AM General designs, engineers, manufactures, supplies and supports specialized vehicles for commercial and military customers with more than six decades of experience meeting the changing needs of the defense and automotive industries. The AM General business units include two wholly-owned subsidiaries, General Engine Products, a diesel engine manufacturer, and General Transmission Products, an automatic transmission manufacturer. AM General is supported by approximately 1,500 employees at major facilities in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and a strong supplier base that stretches across 43 states.

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Concept vehicle rolls out to meet Detroit public

April 26, 2012

By Bruce J. Huffman

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U.S. ARMY DETROIT ARSENAL, Warren, Mich. (April 26, 2012) -- This week the Army debuted its latest concept vehicle that not only significantly improves upon fuel economy, it also has the capability to generate and export electric power to Soldiers in austere locations like Afghanistan.

Following the grand opening of the arsenal's high-tech lab last week, the Fuel Efficient ground vehicle Demonstrator (Bravo version), or FED Bravo, was displayed to the public at the Society of Automotive Engineers 2012 World Congress, April 24-26. The FED Alpha concept vehicle shown to the public last fall was fuel-efficient, but could not export power like the Bravo version.

When FED Bravo plugs into a microgrid, it's capable of providing power that can be used at forward operating bases and other small military outposts, officials said, significantly reducing power requirements and helping Soldiers to be more efficient.

True to the Society of Automotive Engineers 2012 theme, "Get Connected," the Army collaborated with students at the College for Creative Studies, or CCS, in Detroit to design the concept vehicle. CCS has a thriving, highly respected automotive design program to feed the styling studios of the Big Three auto manufacturers, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. A group of 18 CCS students designed FED Bravo to meet specific Army requirements for fuel economy, performance, protection, payload and interior layout.

FED Bravo was funded by the Defense Department and developed by engineers at the Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center in Warren, Mich., along with industry partner World Technical Services, Inc.

TARDEC has had a significant presence at the World Congress auto show. In addition to the public's introduction to FED Bravo this year, its display also featured a small TM3 microgrid system to which the vehicle could provide power.

FED Bravo sports a Ford 4.4-liter twin turbocharged V8 diesel engine capable of producing 268 hp. Other features include:

• Road-coupled parallel hybrid drive system. The front axle is powered by an electric motor, while the rear-wheel drive is linked to a hybrid fuel-powered and electric system.

• Integrated starter-generator that shuts off the engine during idle time and restarts it when the driver presses the accelerator which improves fuel economy and reduces emissions.

• Six-speed auto transmission coupled with an advanced lithium-ion battery with high energy and power density.

• The full-power hydraulic brake system with antilock brakes is combined with the vehicle's steering system to supply the hydraulic pressure demands for the steering, eliminating a second pump and improving efficiency.

• Carbon ceramic brake rotors with advanced coating for durability, plus low-drag aluminum brake calipers.

• Tubular space from chassis for better rigidity-to-weight ratio combined with armored cab and V-shaped hull for protection from blasts.