Many thanks to Majtaz for the link!
via AFV Club.
The F-35 has wrecked US Marine Corps procurement plans to such a degree that while 3rd world Marine forces are acquiring new APC/IFVs, we're still operating...and will continue to operate a vehicle that was first conceived more than 50 years ago.
The failure of Amos' is complete... remember this via Defense Tech...
via AFV Club.
The amphibious armored personnel carrier vehicle 8 × 8 Norinco VN-1 is one of the models acquired weapons systems to China as part of a process of re-equipping Marine Bolivariana de Venezuela and will be delivered soon.Read the entire article but now is it becoming clear?
Its development Began in the 1990s, being first seen in 2006, to enter service Shortly after the Chinese Army with ZBL-09 designation as a replacement of the armored personnel carrier 6 × 6 Type 92 For export designation is VN-1.
The VN-1 has-been Influenced by Russian and Western vehicles, Especially by American Stryker. Modular in design, construction consisted of six modules, treats including module engine, transmission, control, suspension, helmet and weapons station module.
The F-35 has wrecked US Marine Corps procurement plans to such a degree that while 3rd world Marine forces are acquiring new APC/IFVs, we're still operating...and will continue to operate a vehicle that was first conceived more than 50 years ago.
The failure of Amos' is complete... remember this via Defense Tech...
“There are two answers to that, one is as Commandant of the Marine Corps’s answer which is Before I leave leave office four years from now … we’ll have a program of record, we’ll have steel, there will be a vehicle and I’ll be able to drive it,” Amos said responding to lawmakers questions during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. “I’m trying to pressurize industry, I’m trying to pressurize the acquisition folks, I want the word to get out. If we followed the standard acquisition timeline, which in some cases got us to where we are today, it’ll be 2024.”And then this from the same article...
“Something probably that resembles the sense of urgency that we had for the MRAP but probably a little bit more scheduled, and that’s what we’re going to do.”He lied, equivocated and was indecisive for one reason. To save the F-35. The F-35 will have to stack up an impressive kill record to equal how many Marines will have died in an antiquated vehicles because funding was diverted to it instead of this more pressing issue.
