PPT Slide
REQUIRED C-17 SORTIES= 162
Equipment: 584 vehicles + (100) 463L Pallets
114 AGS 105mm gun with adv munitions (30 tons)
200 Light Strike Vehicles (18 tons) [35mm &
LOSAT + (27) 120mm Adv. Mortar system]
24 M9 ACE Engineer Vehicles
7 Fox Nuclear/Biological/Chemical Vehicles
160 HUMMV Vehicles (various configurations)
70 Trucks (medium weight)
40 Hughes 500D Armed Helicopters
12 UH 60 (Armed and Transport Helicopters
REQUIRED C-17 SORTIES= 340
Equipment:: 600 wheeled armored vehicles armed with 25mm and 90mm cannon plus either TOW or LOSAT. No stabilized gun platform; cannot fire on the move.
Note: Software system for determining individual plane loads is the Air Load Planning System (ALPS) and equipment information comes from FM 55-15 Transportation Reference Data.
- Brigadier General with seasoned staff commands a cohesive, ready, cohesive, all arms Battlegroup capable of real Independent Warfighting Operations within the Joint Task Force!
- Equipment sets are leased for eight years to support the establishment of three Light Recon-Strike Groups on rotational readiness!
- Colonel Commands Conventional Brigade Combat Team within the existing ten division structure. No new Joint Operational Architecture.
- Not structured for independence. Without significant reinforcement, exclusively Small Scale Conflict Force (peacekeeping).
- Equipment sets are purchased with enormous sunken costs and little salvage value. Technology is moving too fast to buy in most cases. Old R&D process cannot keep up! Civil leads Military!