{"id":4534,"date":"2019-10-15T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2019-10-15T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:21:16","slug":"elijen-vehiculo-para-el-peloton-de-infanteria-del-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=4534","title":{"rendered":"Elijen veh\u00edculo para el pelot\u00f3n de infanter\u00eda del US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tres equipos muy diferentes compiten para construir el Veh\u00edculo del Escuadr\u00f3n de Infanter\u00eda del Ej\u00e9rcito, un\u00a0veh\u00edculo\u00a0\u00a0lo suficientemente resistente como para lanzarse en paraca\u00eddas desde un avi\u00f3n y luego alejarse\u00a0 a campo traviesa\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0con nueve soldados de infanter\u00eda fuertemente armados.\u00a0Para el 13 de noviembre, cada equipo\u00a0presentara\u00a0\u00a0al Ej\u00e9rcito dos veh\u00edculos para realizar pruebas, y el ganador recibir\u00e1 un contrato (inicial) para 651 vehiculos\u00a0 el pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o.\u00a0\u00a0Compiten Oshkosh – Flyer\u00a0 ; Polaris y SAIC\u00a0 y GM Defense.
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WASHINGTON: Three very different teams are vying to build the Army\u2019s Infantry Squad Vehicle, a truck tough enough to parachute out of an airplane and then\u00a0drive away cross-country<\/a>\u00a0with nine heavily armed infantrymen. By Nov. 13th, each team owes the Army two vehicles for testing, with the winner getting a contract for 651 ISVs next year.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s meet the players.<\/p>\n

\"Oshkosh<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Oshkosh-Flyer team<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the closest thing to an incumbent in the competition. The Army had earlier\u00a0picked the Flyer-72<\/a>\u00a0as an\u00a0interim<\/em>\u00a0air-droppable transport, the A-GMV, and Flyer is offering an upgraded version for the follow-on program, ISV. Actual mass production will be done by Oshkosh, which makes a host of Army trucks \u2014 most prominently, the beefed-up successor to the Humvee, the\u00a0Joint Light Tactical Vehicle<\/a>\u00a0(JLTV), which the Army and Marine Corps plan to buy\u00a0over 50,000<\/a>\u00a0of in the coming decades.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, Oshkosh plans to build the 5,000-pound ISV on the same assembly line as all its other vehicles, from the 14,000-lb JLTV to 10-ton\u00a0FMTV<\/a>\u00a0dump trucks. (The earlier version of the Flyer-72 was mass-produced by\u00a0General Dynamics<\/a>). The ISV will be the lightest vehicle on the Oshkosh line, VP\u00a0George Mansfield<\/a>\u00a0told me, but the company is confident it can build the air-droppable trucks more affordably than Flyer could \u2014 and at least as well. In fact, Mansfield said, he expects the Oshkosh-built version to be\u00a0more\u00a0<\/em>reliable. That\u2019s in part because of Oshkosh\u2019s manufacturing expertise \u2014 it won the JLTV contract in large part because its offering\u00a0broke down less than half as often as uparmored Humvees<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and in part because of Flyer\u2019s extensive field experience with the earlier versions built for the Army and Special Operation Command.<\/p>\n

As a team, Mansfield told me, \u201cwe\u2019ve learned a lot about reliability, we\u2019ve learned a lot about life-cycle cost, that now we can take here at Oshkosh with our extensive knowledge of all the other product lines we sell to the Army.\u201d<\/p>\n