Posted on 04/28/2022 7:56:01 AM PDT by Paul46360
The Army plans to conclude development efforts in the third quarter of FY22 and will then test prototypes at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Testing at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, will also take place beginning in the fourth quarter of FY22.
Both testing efforts will come to a close in the first quarter of FY23, the justification books show.
Earlier this year, a 3rd Infantry Division unit at Fort Stewart, Georgia, became the first unit equipped with the modernized M2A4 Bradley following the Army’s decade-long effort to upgrade the vehicles.
The “A4″ variant is an engineering change proposal program that brings in new suspension and track upgrades. It also upgrades the electrical system and powertrain to restore lost mobility and integrate new technologies.
The road to delivering the A4 has been rough. A year ago, the Army was testing a solution to address overheating and toxic gas production in the newest version of the Bradley’s turret battery, for example, which delayed the program by almost a year.
Integrating electric capability into a vehicle like Bradley is challenging. but it will likely be far into the future when the Army considers fully electric options for combat vehicles or tanks.
The Army’s recently released climate strategy lays out a goal to field fully electric tactical vehicles by 2050, but hybrid ones by 2035.
Robotic platforms might be the first to be fully electric, or perhaps the Army’s still unfunded electric light reconnaissance vehicle effort.
Additionally, the Army is continuing analysis and technology development of a next-generation powertrain for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle that considers hybrid and a fully electric option. Oshkosh unveiled a hybrid version of the JLTV earlier this year
“It’s about size and weight,” Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean, program executive officer for ground combat systems, told Defense News in an interview last year. “If you took the amount of batteries with current technology that you would need to move an Abrams tank purely electrically, it’s bigger than the tank, so we have a packaging and storage problem when it comes to pure electric.”
Military supply lines will include a lot more generators and....diesel to run the generators.
I assume that the possibility of fixing failed vehicles in the field is long gone, so the added complexity making in field repair impossible is no longer an issue.
Just what the US military needs, EV’s, faggots, trannies, and women.
America, F*** yeah!...
The Bradley vehicle’s preferred name now is *Brenda*, ze announced.
“Military supply lines will include a lot more generators and....diesel to run the generators.”
Hybrid, not EV.
All pants will require zippers front and back.
I don’t think this’ll go well, or end well.
And long extension cords too.
Yeah. Get out on the battlefield and lose power and shuts down putting all the crew at risk of getting killed by a gasoline powered engine and crew.
“Effective and Reliable in battle must be on the top of the list.”
Dual power sources should make it more reliable. Plus quieter when on battery.
This boils down to real science and economics. Green Bradleys and other vehicles will not work in battle. We don't need Greta running our military.
I’ve been involved with several discussions at General Dynamics with other companies on electrifying combat vehicles. The engineers understand it simply can’t be done. Any efforts are entirely political and are intended to fund technology development which supporters believe will then be available to make electric cars practical. It just won’t happen. Period.
There’s “stupid,” then there’s trying to “electrify combat vehicles stupid.” The difference is a ping pong ball versus the sun.
“And long extension cords too.”
Dude, think before posting. It is a hybrid, not an EV.
” Green Bradleys and other vehicles will not work in battle.’”
Why will this vehicle not work?
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